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This chapter provides information on monitoring and managing system events.
Events provide information about the operations that occur on a Data ONTAP 10.0 system. An event consists of the following elements:
Message name
Severity level. Possible values include the following, listed in decreasing order of urgency:
EMERGENCY: The system is unusable
ALERT: Action must be taken immediately to prevent system failure
CRITICAL: A critical condition has occurred
ERROR: An error condition has occurred
WARNING: A warning condition has occurred
NOTICE: A normal but significant condition has occurred
INFORMATIONAL: An informational message
DEBUG: A debugging message
Description
Corrective action, if applicable
An event is associated with one or more event destinations, a frequency threshold, and a time threshold. You can specify the destination and thresholds for an event by using the event route modify command.
Events are written to the event log. You can display the event log by using the event log show command and modify its configuration by using the event config modify command.