The
Events page enables you to view a list of current events and their properties. You can perform tasks such as acknowledging, resolving, and assigning events. You can also add an alert to a specific event.
Command buttons
The command buttons enable you to perform the following tasks:
- Assign To
- Enables you to select the user to whom the event is assigned. You can select one of the following:
- Me
- Assigns the event to you.
When you assign an event to yourself, your user name and the time when you assigned the event is added in the events list for the selected events.
- Another user
- Displays the Assign Owner dialog box, which enables you to assign or reassign the event to other users.
When you assign an event to a user, the user's name and the time when the event was assigned are added in the events list for the selected events. You can also unassign events by leaving the ownership field blank.
- Acknowledge
- Acknowledges the selected events.
When you acknowledge an event, your user name and the time when you acknowledged the event are added in the events list for the selected events. When you acknowledge an event, you are responsible for managing that event.
- Mark As Resolved
- Enables you to change the event state to resolved.
When you resolve an event, your user name and the time when you resolved the event are added in the events list for the selected events. After you have taken corrective action for the
event, you must mark the event as resolved.
- Add Alert
- Displays the Add Alert dialog box, which enables you to add alerts for the selected events.
- Export
- Enables you to export details of all new and acknowledged events of severity type Critical, Error, and Warning to a comma-separated values (.csv) file.
Events list
Displays details of all the events that occurred, based on the recent timestamp. By default, events of severity type Critical, Error, and Warning and events of state New and Acknowledged are displayed.
- Triggered
Time
- Displays the time that has elapsed since the event was generated. If the time elapsed exceeds a week, the timestamp when the event was generated is displayed. You can use the time period filter to narrow your search.
- Status
- Displays the severity of the event. You can filter this column to display events of a specific severity type or types.
The event severity types are Critical (), Error (), Warning (), and Information ().
- State
- Displays the event state: New, Acknowledged, Resolved, or Obsolete. You can filter this column to show events of a specific state.
- Impact Level
- Displays whether the event is categorized as an incident, risk, or an informational event.
- Impact Area
- Displays whether the event is a capacity, availability, performance, protection, or configuration related event.
- Name
- Displays the event names. You can select an event to display the event details.
- Source
- Displays the name of the object where the event has occurred.
- Source
Type
- Displays the object type (for example, Storage Virtual Machine (SVM), volume, or qtree) with which the event is associated.
- Assigned To
- Displays the name of the user to whom the event is assigned.
- Assigned Time
- Displays the time that has elapsed since the event was assigned to a user. If the time elapsed exceeds a week, the timestamp when the event was assigned to a user is displayed. By default, this column is hidden.
- Notes
- Displays the number of notes that are added for an event.
- Acknowledged By
- Displays the name of the user who acknowledged the event. The field is blank if the event is not acknowledged. By default, this column is hidden.
- Acknowledged Time
- Displays the time that has elapsed since the event was acknowledged. If the time elapsed exceeds a week, the timestamp when the event was acknowledged is displayed. By default, this column is hidden.
- Resolved By
- Displays the name of the user who resolved the event. The field is blank if the event is not resolved. By default, this column is hidden.
- Resolved Time
- Displays the time that has elapsed since the event was resolved. If the time elapsed exceeds a week, the timestamp when the event was resolved is displayed. By default, this column is hidden.
- Obsoleted Time
- Displays the time when the state of the event became Obsolete. By default, this column is hidden.
Filters pane
The Filters pane enables you to set filters to customize the way information is displayed in the events list. You can select filters related to the Status, State, Impact Level, Impact Area, Source Type, Assigned To, and Annotation.
Note: The filters specified in the Filters pane override the filters specified for the columns in the events list.