ServerConductor/Blade Server Manager Description and Reference

### 15.4.1 Displaying error information (notification alerts)

This subsection describes how to manage notification alerts that are sent from managed hosts.

Organization of this subsection
  (1) Displaying notification alerts
  (2) Setting notification alerts to checked status
  (3) Deleting checked notification alerts
  (4) Setting the alerts to be reported

#### (1) Displaying notification alerts

To view notification alerts:

1. From the Alert management menu, choose Notification alerts View.
   The Notification alert window appears.

Note
  A maximum of 1,000 notification alerts can be read at one time. When there are more than 1,000 notification alerts, you can display the remaining notification alerts after deleting unneeded notification alerts and then choosing Notification Alerts View again.

The Notification alert window displays the following information:

Table 15-1 Information displayed in the Notification Alert window

Displayed item | Description
--- | ---
Occurrence date and time | Indicates the date and time an alert occurred.
Occurrence host | Displays the name of the host where the alert occurred. Clicking the host name opens the Inventory window that displays inventory information for the clicked host.
Alert level | Displays the level of the alert that occurred.
Contents | Displays a description of the alert.
Alert ID | Displays the alert ID.
Occurrence location | Displays the location (such as an agent) where the alert occurred.
Confirmation status | Displays whether the alert has been investigated or checked. For details about checking alerts, see (2) Setting notification alerts to checked status.

To make the display of notification alerts more readable, you can do the following:

- Sort the notification alerts
  Clicking a column title sorts the notification alerts in ascending order of that column's entries. Each time the same column title is clicked, the sorted order toggles between ascending and descending.
- Filter the notification alerts to be displayed
  By setting a search condition in the search condition specification area, you can filter the alerts to be displayed:
  You should note the following about setting a search condition:
  - For Contents, specify the condition as a maximum of 150 characters.
  - For Alert ID, set a string of 6 characters including 0x at the beginning or a string of 4 characters without the 0x.

The following figure shows the operation flow:

Figure 15-9 Displaying notification alerts

#### (2) Setting notification alerts to checked status

The Notification alert window displays the reported alerts. At times, it might be difficult to identify the alerts requiring action because there are many alerts or the alerts that have been dealt with cannot be separated from those that have not. However, it is necessary to be able to make this distinction.

To differentiate unchecked alerts from checked alerts:

1. In the Notification alert window, select the check box for an alert whose status is to be set to Confirmed.
   You can select multiple alerts. Clicking the Select All button selects the check boxes for all alerts.
2. Click the Confirm button.
   The check status of the selected alerts becomes Confirmed.

The following figure shows the operation flow:

Figure 15-10 Setting notification alerts to checked status

#### (3) Deleting checked notification alerts

You can delete alerts displayed in the Notification alert window. Note that you can delete only alerts whose check status is Confirmed.

To delete alerts:

1. In the Notification alert window, select the check box for an alert that you want to delete.
   You can select multiple alerts. Clicking the Select All button selects the check boxes for all alerts.
2. Click the Delete button.
   The selected alerts are deleted.

The following figure shows the operation flow:

Figure 15-11 Deleting checked notification alerts

#### (4) Setting the alerts to be reported

If all alerts that occur at servers are reported to the management console, handling of important alerts might be delayed. The console service enables you to set server operation to handle alerts in advance and to filter notification alerts so that only important alerts are reported. For details about these settings, see 15.4.4 Setting server operation in the event of an alert or 15.4.5 Filtering alert notification.

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