Monitoring the health of your system

You can proactively manage your system by monitoring a single, integrated health status for the entire cluster. If the status is Degraded, you can drill down to individual health monitors to view details about the problem, including the probable cause and recommended recovery actions. After you resolve the problem, the system status automatically returns to OK.

Currently, there are three health monitors: an overall System Health Monitor and two individual health monitors for the Storage subsystem.

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Acknowledging system health alerts

For storage systems running Data ONTAP 8.1, you can acknowledge and respond to system health alerts for SAS connectivity from System Manager. You can use the information displayed to take the recommended action and correct the problem reported by the alert.

Suppressing system health alerts

You can suppress system health alerts that do not require any intervention from you.

Deleting system health alerts

You can delete system health alerts that you have already responded to.