Monitoring the health of your system

Health monitors proactively monitor certain critical conditions in your cluster and raise alerts if they detect a fault or risk. If there are active alerts, the system health status reports a degraded status for the cluster. The alerts include the information that you need to respond to degraded system health.

If the status is degraded, you can view details about the problem, including the probable cause and recommended recovery actions. After you resolve the problem, the system health status automatically returns to OK.

The system health status reflects multiple separate health monitors. A degraded status in an individual health monitor causes a degraded status for the overall system health.

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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.