You can display statistics about hardware-assisted takeovers to determine how many alert events of each type have been received from the partner.
The following example shows output from the cf hw_assist stats command on a system that has received a variety of alerts from the partner:
# cf hw_assist: stats Known hw_assist alerts received from partner alert type alert event num of alerts ---------- ----------- ------------- system_down post_error 0 system_down power_loss 0 system_down abnormal_reboot 0 system_down l2_watchdog_reset 0 system_down power_off_via_rlm 0 system_down power_cycle_via_rlm 0 system_down reset_via_rlm 0 keep_alive loss_of_heartbeat 0 keep_alive periodic_message 18 test test 6 Unknown hw_assist alerts received from partner Partner nvramid mismatch alerts 5 Shared secret mismatch alerts 10 Unknown alerts 23 Number of times hw_assist alerts throttled: 3