Alert monitoring

You can monitor alerts to locate and isolate problems with your storage systems and storage objects.

ApplianceWatch includes numerous rules that monitor the health of various discovered Data ONTAP storage objects. If the parameters of a rule are broken, ApplianceWatch generates an alert and sends it to Microsoft Operations Manager. You can override these rules as necessary using the Controller performance collection rule, which is targeted at the Data ONTAP Controller class.

All other periodic monitoring rules are targeted at the Data ONTAP Management Server class.

You can find alerts, as well as locate the source of the alert, by looking at the Alert View, Diagram View, or Controllers View windows.

• Alerts View
  You can view a list of every active alert found by ApplianceWatch; alternatively, you can limit the view to alerts specific to Data ONTAP storage. When you select an individual alert in one of these lists, you can view information about it in the Alert Details pane. You can launch Health Explorer in Microsoft Operations Manager to find the cause of the problem.
• Diagram View
  You can view a pictorial representation of all of the storage and hardware currently being monitored by ApplianceWatch to enable you to isolate problems on a specific storage controller object.
• Controllers View
  You can view a list of each storage controller currently monitored by ApplianceWatch, as well as its overall health. When you select a controller, you can also view information about it in the Controllers View window. If a controller is in either a warning or critical state, you can launch the Health Explorer in Microsoft Operations Manager to find the root of the problem.
• Overriding monitoring rules
  You can adjust the frequency and timeout values of the monitoring rules as you scale your storage configuration to meet your needs.