Viewing active alerts

About this task

Procedure

Complete one of these procedures to view the active alerts.

• To view only alerts for managed devices (known as hardware alerts):

  1. From the XClarity Administrator title bar, click the Status pull-down to display a summary of hardware and management alerts.

  2. Click the With Hardware Alerts tab to see a summary of alerts for each managed device.
     
     

  3. Hover the cursor over a device that is listed under that tab to display a list of alerts for that device.

  4. Click the All Hardware Alerts link to display the Alerts page with a filtered list of all hardware alerts.

• To view only alerts from XClarity Administrator (known as management alerts):

  1. From the XClarity Administrator title bar, click the Status pull-down to display a summary of hardware and management alerts.

  2. Click the With Management Alerts tab to see a summary of all CMM and XClarity Administrator alerts.
     
     

  3. Hover the cursor over a device that is listed under that tab to display a list of alerts for that device.

  4. Click the All Management Alerts link to display the Alerts page with a filtered list of all CMM and XClarity Administrator alerts.

• To view all alerts in XClarity Administrator, click Monitoring > Alerts from the XClarity Administrator menu bar. The Alerts page is displayed with a list of all active alerts.

  
  
  

• To view alerts for a specific device:

  1. From the XClarity Administrator menu bar, click Hardware, and then click a device type. A page is displayed with a tabular view of all managed devices of that type. For example, click Hardware > Servers to display the Servers page.

  2. Click a specific device to display the Summary page for the device.

  3. Under Status and Health, click Alerts to display a list of all alerts associated with that device.

     Note

     The Serviceability column might show Not Available if:

     • The alert on the device occurred before XClarity Administrator started managing it

     • The event log has wrapped, and the event associated with that alert is no longer in the event log.