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System Health/System Alerts window
You can use the System Health/System Alerts window to learn more about system health alerts. You can also acknowledge, delete, and suppress alerts from the window.
Command buttons
Acknowledge
Enables you to acknowledge the selected alert to indicate that the problem is being addressed and identifies the person who clicks the button as the "Acknowledger."
Suppress
Enables you to suppress the selected alert to prevent the system from notifying you about the same alert again and identifies you as the "Suppressor."
Delete
Deletes the selected alert.
Refresh
Updates the information in the window.
Alerts list
SubSystem (No. of Alerts)
Displays the name of the subsystem for which the alert is generated.
For storage systems running Data ONTAP 8.1 or a later version in the 8.1 release family, only SAS connection subsystems are supported.
For storage systems running Data ONTAP 8.2, SAS connection, switch health, and CIFS NDO subsystems are supported.
Alert ID
Displays the alert ID.
Node
Displays the name of the node for which the alert is generated.
Severity
Displays the severity of the alert as Unknown, Other, Information, Degraded, Minor, Major, Critical, or Fatal.
Resource
Displays the resource that generated the alert, such as a specific shelf or disk.
Time
Displays the time when the alert was generated.
Details area
The details area displays detailed information about the alert, such as the time when the alert was generated and whether the alert has been acknowledged. The area also includes information about the probable cause and possible effect of the condition generated by the alert, and the recommended actions to correct the problem reported by the alert.


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