## Monitoring Storage Devices

## Terms Used When Monitoring

This chapter describes the following monitoring functions you can perform using The terms event, alert, and alarm are often mistakenly used interchangeably. The terms are defined as follows:

- An event is a notification that contains information about something that happened on a device. There are many types of events, and each type describes a separate occurrence.
- An alert is a subtype of an event that requires user intervention. The term actionable event often describes an alert.
- An alarm is a warning of an existing or approaching alert.