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What can cause an EMS message to be dropped?

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Applies to

ONTAP 9

Answer

  • The event was suppressed by EMS suppression algrorithms.
  • The event processing system implements several algorithms to throttle events.
  • Use event status show command for information on suppressed events

ontap91::> set diag -confirmation off; event status show -message-name security.invalid.login -ins

Node: ontap91-01
Message Name: security.invalid.login
Number of Indications: 13
Number of Drops: 11 
Last Indication Time: 6/2/2020 10:27:54
Last Suppressed Indication Time: 6/2/2020 10:27:54
Last Processed Indication Time: 6/2/2020 10:25:41
Stat Starting Time: 6/1/2020 12:42:59
60-minute Histogram: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
24-hour Histogram: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
7-day Histogram: 0, 0, 6, 7, 0, 0, 0
Is Chatter: false
Change since Last Chatter Calculation?: false
Number of Times Autosuppressed: 0
Number of Times Rate Limited: 0
Number of Times Timer Suppressed: 11 
Number of Times Duplicate Suppressed: 0
Number of Times Suppressed Since Last Time Logged: 5
Accumulated Bytes: 491
Severity: SVC_FAULT
Probability to Suppress: 0%
Number of Times Duplicate Suppressed (-30 secs): 0
Number of Times Duplicate Suppressed (30-60 secs): 0
Number of Times Duplicate Suppressed (60-90 secs): 0
Number of Times Duplicate Suppressed (90-120 secs): 0
Number of Times Duplicate Suppressed (120- secs): 0

Additional Information

  • Use event config show to determine if event suppression algorithms are enabled ("on") or disabled ("off").
Note: The suppression parameter can disable both autosuppression and duplicate suppression, but not timer suppression.
  • See the diag command event show-suppression for suppression algorithm details.
    • ontap914::*> event show-suppression
      Node: ontap914-01
      Time since rotate    (t0):   489618s       Autosuppression enabled:   true
      Time to next rotate  (t1):   115182s    Past startup time  (  10m):   true
      Time scale     (ts=t1/t0):
                        0.2352487040917613    Past min log size (  2048):   true

      Target max bytes      (T):  36700160   Per event chatter threshold:
                                                                         1520769
      Accumulated bytes     (A):   4119384
      Bytes remaining   (B=T-A):  32581072      Number of events not subject
      Predicted bytes  (P=A*ts):    969010       to autosuppression:      3012
                                                Of events subject to autosuppression
      AutoSuppression probability                 number suppressed:       720
             (a=max(0,(P-B)/P)):        0%      number rate limited:         0
                                              number not suppressed:      8826
              Total indications:     12639    duplicates suppressed:        51
                                              duplicates suppressed
                                                      in 30 seconds:        10
                                              duplicates suppressed
                                                      in 60 seconds:         5
                                              duplicates suppressed
                                                      in 90 seconds:         4
                                              duplicates suppressed
                                                     in 120 seconds:         8
                                              duplicates suppressed
                                                  after 120 seconds:         0
                                                   timer suppressed:         3
      Node: ontap914-02
      Time since rotate    (t0):   489627s       Autosuppression enabled:   true
      Time to next rotate  (t1):   115173s    Past startup time  (  10m):   true
      Time scale     (ts=t1/t0):
                        0.2352259985662555    Past min log size (  2048):   true

      Target max bytes      (T):  36700160   Per event chatter threshold: 890109
      Accumulated bytes     (A):   2613303
      Bytes remaining   (B=T-A):  34087151      Number of events not subject
      Predicted bytes  (P=A*ts):    614647       to autosuppression:      2268
                                                Of events subject to autosuppression
      AutoSuppression probability                 number suppressed:         0
             (a=max(0,(P-B)/P)):        0%      number rate limited:         0
                                              number not suppressed:      5144
              Total indications:      7488    duplicates suppressed:        61
                                              duplicates suppressed
                                                      in 30 seconds:         2
                                              duplicates suppressed
                                                      in 60 seconds:         3
                                              duplicates suppressed
                                                      in 90 seconds:         5
                                              duplicates suppressed
                                                     in 120 seconds:         2
                                              duplicates suppressed
                                                  after 120 seconds:         0
                                                   timer suppressed:         3
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