Unisphere for PowerMax alert monitoring recommendations

This topic outlines the list of recommended alerts for you to monitor or consider monitoring (depending on your environment) when configuring alert policies using Unisphere for PowerMax.

NOTE:  These recommendations are for storage systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977, PowerMaxOS 5978, and PowerMaxOS 10 (6079).

Alert notifications should also be enabled for these alerts.

In addition, notifications should be configured for the default System Thresholds Alerts set and Notifications set.

It is recommended that you monitor the following:

  • Array Component events
  • Array Events
  • Array - Deferred Service Threshold Alert
  • Array - Director Status
  • Array - Disk Status
  • Array - Environmental Alert
  • Array - Hotspare Invoked
  • Array - Port Link status
  • Array - Port status
  • Array - RVA Spare Coverage
  • Array - SP Alerts
  • Array - SRDF Alerts
  • Array - SRDF Job Flow Control Change
  • Array - SRDF Link Status
  • Array - SRDF/A No Cycle Switch Alert
  • Array - SRDF/A Session
  • Array - SRDF/A Session dropped, Transmit Idle state timeout
  • Array - SRDF/A Session entering Transmit Idle state
  • Array - SRDF/A Session recovered from a Transmit Idle state
  • Array - Target Enginuity Warning

Consider monitoring the following depending on the customer environment:

  • Array - Device Config Change
  • Array - Device Status
  • Array - Thin Device Allocation
  • Array - Thin Device Usage