What are the different types of events in Active IQ Unified Manager?
Applies to
- Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM)
- Oncommand Unified Manager (OCUM)
Answer
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Built-in events
- Predefined events for different object types (Aggregate, Cluster, Node, Volumes, etc.)
- Two types of built-in events
- Health Events
- Automatic notifications triggered by predefined conditions or when an object's health reaches a threshold
- They help prevent performance issues and system unavailability. Events are classified by impact area (availability, capacity, configuration, or protection) and assigned a severity and impact level to determine the urgency of action needed
- Performance Events
- Incidents related to workload performance on a cluster and can help identify workloads with slow response times
- Health Events
- Unified Manager treats repeated occurrences of the same event as a single event
- A full list can be found here
- Active IQ Portal Events
- Events that are discovered by Unified Manager through Active IQ
- Created by applying rules to AutoSupport messages from monitored storage systems
- Unified Manager automatically checks and downloads new rules for clusters after midnight
- For sites with no external network access, upload rules manually from Storage Management > Event Setup > Upload Rules
- These events usually pertain to cluster risks and may offer fix options or suggested actions
- Event details include the rule ID being checked
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- EMS Based Events
- Administrators can use EMS subscription to monitor storage events not included in the built-in events
- Unified Manager has hundreds of built-in events, whereas ONTAP has several thousand EMS events
- EMS subscription allows configuration of Unified Manager to receive specific EMS events from clusters in real-time
- Unified Manager polls on 15-minute intervals which may cause a delay in processing built-in events
- EMS events are broken up into two categories
- Automatically Subscribed Events
- Automatically enabled when a cluster is added to Unified Manager
- The cluster notifies Active IQ Unified Manager about these events through REST notifications over port 9443
- The events appear in the format "<Severity> EMS Received," and more details can be viewed by drilling down into the event details
- See all automatically subscribed events
- Events that storage administrators may want to set up alerts for, but they are not part of the built-in or automatically subscribed events
- The cluster notifies Unified Manager about these events through Syslog over UDP port 514.
- The events appear in the format "<Severity> EMS Received," and more details can be viewed by drilling down into the event details
- How to configure and receive alerts from ONTAP EMS Event Subscription in Active IQ Unified Manager
- Automatically Subscribed Events
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