Managing Alarm Dump

Context

• 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.
• 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 50,000 (the upper limit), the first 10,000 events are dumped automatically to the specified FTP server or SFTP server.

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

Procedure

1. Choose Settings > System Settings > Alarm Dump.
2. Set alarm dump parameters.
   1. Set Enable to the on state, as shown in
   2. Set alarm dump parameters listed in Table 1.

      Table 1 Alarm dump parameters

      Parameter	Description
      Transport Protocol	Indicates the transport protocol for alarm dump, including SFTP and FTP. NOTE: The storage systems support FTP for compatibility concerns. SFTP is recommended for security purposes.
      Username	Indicates a 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	Indicates the password for logging in to the server. The password contains 1 to 63 characters.
      Confirm Password	Confirms the password for consistency.
      Server IP Address	Indicates the IP address of a server. The value range is as follows: 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	Indicates a path where events and cleared alarms are dumped. [Value range] The file save path contains 1 to 255 characters. The file save path must end with path separator / or \, and cannot contain special characters ':?"<>|* or start with a space or period (.). Path separator / or \ 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.