Viewing Alarms, Errors, and Other Events

The Alarms page in 3DM2 shows a log of all events (also called Asynchronous Event Notifications, or AENs) that have occurred on units. These events include alarms that occur when the 3ware RAID controller requires attention, such as when a disk unit becomes degraded and is no longer fault tolerant. They also include SMART notifications and informational notification, such as when sectors have been repaired during verification.

Event messages are categorized into the following levels of severity:

Errors (high severity events), shown next to a red box

Warnings, shown next to a yellow box

Information, shown next to a blue box

Examples of event messages:

Error: Unclean shutdown

Warning: Degraded unit

Information: Start and completion of rebuilding, verifying, initializing, migrating, and so forth.

3DM2 can e-mail notifications of these events to one or more recipients. For more information, see Managing E-mail Event Notification.

If your 3ware RAID controller is installed in a Windows system, the WinAVAlarm alert utility can notify you of events immediately with an audible alarm and a popup message. For details, see Using the Alert Utility Under Windows.

A list of the possible error and other event messages is provided under Error and Notification Messages.

To view alarms, errors and other events in 3DM2

1	Choose Monitor >> Alarms.

The Alarms page displays, listing all event notifications.

2	For details about a particular alarm, click it.

A Help window opens with additional information about the alarm.

To see an explanation of a specific item in 3DM2

Click on the message you are interested in, on the 3DM2 Alarms page.

A help topic opens with additional information.