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How you can respond to system health alerts
When a system health alert occurs, you can learn more about it, acknowledge it, repair the underlying condition, and prevent it from occurring again.
When a health monitor raises an alert, you can respond in any of the following ways:
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Get information about the alert, which includes the affected resource, alert severity, probable cause, possible effect, and corrective actions.
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Get detailed information about the alert, such as the time when the alert was raised and whether anyone else has acknowledged the alert already.
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Get health-related information about the state of the affected resource or subsystem, such as a specific shelf or disk.
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Acknowledge the alert to indicate that someone is working on the problem, and identify yourself as the "Acknowledger."
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Resolve the problem by taking the corrective actions provided in the alert, such as fixing cabling to resolve a connectivity problem.
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Delete the alert, if the system didn't automatically clear it.
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Suppress an alert to prevent the system from notifying you about the same alert again, and identify yourself as the "Suppressor."
Suppressing is useful when you understand a problem. After you suppress an alert, it can still occur but the subsystem health remains OK even when the alert occurs.

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