From the Event details page, you can view the details of a selected event, such as the event severity, impact level, impact area, and event source. You can also view additional information about the selected event in the Notes and Updates area section, which is provided by the user who previously worked on that event.
The command buttons enable you to perform the following tasks:
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 view the following event details:
The event severity types are Critical (), Error (), Warning (), and Information ().
The value is displayed as "Unknown" when Data ONTAP does not provide a valid user name because of SecD errors.
This field is blank if the event is not acknowledged.
This field is blank if the event is not resolved.
If the time elapsed exceeds a week, the timestamp when the event was generated is displayed.
You can open the Add Alert dialog box by clicking the link.
You can open the Edit Alert dialog box by clicking the link.
You can open the Alerts page by clicking the link to view more details about these alerts.
Alerts that are disabled are not displayed.
Displays information that was added by the user who last addressed the generated event, based on the recent timestamp. You can also view the time when the information was added.
Graphically displays the resources that are impacted because of the generated event. You can click the name or count link for each of the resources to view more details of the impacted resources.
This area is displayed only for some events, such as Volume Offline, the Volume Restricted, Thin-Provisioned Volume Space At Risk, Some Failed Disks, Aggregate Degraded, MetroCluster Aggregate Mirroring Degraded, Node To FC Switch All FC-Initiator Links Down, and All Links Between MetroCluster Partners Down.
Displays one or more causes that generated the event. You can click the name of the resource to view more details about that resource.
This area is displayed only for some events, such as Volume Offline, Aggregate Degraded, Some Failed Disks, MetroCluster Spare Disks Left Behind, and All Links Between MetroCluster Partners Down.
Displays the effect of the generated event.
This area is displayed only for MetroCluster events, such as All Links Between MetroCluster Partners Down, MetroCluster Aggregate Mirroring Degraded, and Node To FC Switch All FC-Initiator Links Down.
Displays the resources that might be impacted because of the generated event. You can click the name of the resource to view more details about the impacted resource.
This area is displayed only for some events, such as Volume Offline, Volume Restricted, Thin-Provisioned Volume Space At Risk, Aggregate Degraded, and Some Failed Disks.
Displays the actions that you can perform to address the issues.
This area is displayed only for some events, such as Volume Space Nearly Full, Volume Space Full, Volume Offline, Aggregate Degraded, Some Failed Disks, Node To FC Switch All FC-Initiator Links Down, and All Links Between MetroCluster Partners Down.