Managing Alarm Dump

Context

• Only super administrators and administrators can manage alarm dump. System viewers can only view alarm dump.
• When the number of generated events reaches 45,000, the alarm named The Space That Stores Event Logs Is To Be Used Up is triggered. When the number of generated events reaches 50,000 (the upper limit), the system automatically deletes the first 10,000 events.
• After alarm dump is configured in the storage system, the system checks whether the number of events reaches the upper limit every 2 minutes. When the number of generated events reaches 45,000, the alarm named The Space That Stores Event Logs Is To Be Used Up is not triggered. When the number of generated events reaches or exceeds 50,000, the system automatically dumps at least 10,000 earliest events to the specified FTP or SFTP server.
• Alarms of the Security log and Lifecycle log types cannot be dumped.

To ensure that all events generated by the storage system are retained, it is recommended that you configure alarm dump.

Procedure

1. Choose Settings > Alarm Settings > Alarm Dump.
2. Set alarm dump parameters.
   1. Set Enable to the on state.

   2. Set alarm dump parameters. Table 1 describes related parameters.

      Table 1 Alarm dump parameters

      Parameter	Description
      Transmission Protocol	Transport protocol of alarm dump, which can be SFTP or FTP. NOTE: The storage systems support FTP for compatibility concerns. SFTP is recommended for security purposes.
      Username	User name allowed to log in to the server that stores events and cleared alarms. [Value range] The name must be unique. The name contains 1 to 63 characters. The name cannot contain single quotation marks (').
      Password	Password for logging in to the server. The password contains 1 to 63 characters. NOTE: You can click Cancel to clear the password so that password authentication will not be performed.
      Confirm Password	Confirms the password for consistency.
      Server IP Address	IP address of a server. [Value range] In the event of using an IPv4 address: A 32-bit IPv4 address is divided into four 8-bit fields that are expressed in dotted decimal notation. Each field of the IPv4 address must be an integer. The value of the leftmost field ranges from 1 to 223 (excluding 127). The values of the other fields range from 0 to 255. An IPv4 address cannot be set to a special address such as a broadcast address. In the event of using an IPv6 address: A 128-bit IPv6 address is divided into eight 16-bit fields. Each 16-bit field consists of four colon-separated hexadecimal numbers. In each 16-bit field, leading zeros can be omitted for simplicity. However, at least one digit must be reserved in each field. To achieve further simplicity, you can use a double colon (::) in place of a series of zeros. A double colon can be used only once in an IPv6 address. It can also represent the neighboring consecutive zeros at the beginning or end of an IPv6 address. An IPv6 address cannot be set to a special one, such as a network address, loopback address, or multicast address.
      File Save Path	Path where the alarm information is saved. The path must exist on the server. Otherwise, the dumped alarm information will fail to be saved. [Value range] The file save path contains 1 to 255 characters. The file save path cannot contain special characters ':?"<>|*;`$&-()#\! and carriage returns, cannot start with a period (.) or a space, and must end with a slash (/). A path separator / cannot be directly followed by a period (.).

   3. (Optional) Click Test to verify parameter values.
      • If an error dialog box is displayed, at least one parameter value is incorrect. Modify the parameter and retry.
      • If a success dialog box is displayed, the alarm dump parameters have been configured correctly.
   4. Click Save.