Managing Alarm Masking

If alarm masking is enabled, DeviceManager does not monitor or report alarms about specified objects or certain unimportant alarms, thereby improving efficiency in locating faults. These masked alarms are not reported to the upper-layer network management system (NMS), namely, a third-party NMS connected to the storage system.

Context

Procedure

  1. Choose Settings > Alarm Settings > Alarm Masking.
  2. View all alarms of the storage system.

    Table 1 describes related parameters.
    Table 1 Alarm masking parameters

    Parameter

    Description

    Name

    Name of an alarm.

    Alarm ID

    ID of an alarm.

    Alarm Object

    Object of an alarm.

    Severity

    Severity of an alarm. Possible values are Critical, Major, Warning, and Info.

    Alarm Masking

    Whether an alarm is masked.

    Unhandled Alarms

    Whether an alarm is unhandled.

  3. Set alarm masking.

    • Masking alarms
      1. Select the desired alarms and click Mask Alarm.
      2. Confirm your operation as prompted.
    • Unmasking alarms
      1. Select the desired alarms and click Unmask Alarm.
      2. Confirm your operation as prompted.