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There are several similarities between the alert system and the legacy alarm system, but the alert system offers significant benefits and is easier to use.

Refer to the following table to learn how to perform similar operations.

Alerts Alarms (legacy system)

How do I see which alerts or alarms are active?

  • Select the Current alerts link on the dashboard.

  • Select the alert on the NODES > Overview page.

  • Select ALERTS > Current.

View current alerts

Select SUPPORT > Alarms (legacy) > Current alarms.

Manage alarms (legacy system)

What causes an alert or an alarm to be triggered?

Alerts are triggered when a Prometheus expression in an alert rule evaluates as true for the specific trigger condition and duration.

View alert rules

Alarms are triggered when a StorageGRID attribute reaches a threshold value.

Manage alarms (legacy system)

If an alert or alarm is triggered, how do I resolve the underlying problem?

The recommended actions for an alert are included in email notifications and are available from the Alerts pages in the Grid Manager.

As required, additional information is provided in the StorageGRID documentation.

Alerts reference

You can learn about an alarm by selecting the attribute name, or you can search for an alarm code in the StorageGRID documentation.

Alarms reference (legacy system)

Where can I see a list of alerts or alarms that have been resolved?

Select ALERTS > Resolved.

View current and resolved alerts

Select SUPPORT > Alarms (legacy) > Historical alarms.

Manage alarms (legacy system)

Where do I manage the settings?

Select ALERTS > Rules.

Manage alerts

Select SUPPORT. Then, use the options in the Alarms (legacy) section of the menu.

Manage alarms (legacy system)

What user group permissions do I need?

  • Anyone who can sign in to the Grid Manager can view current and resolved alerts.

  • You must have the Manage alerts permission to manage silences, alert notifications, and alert rules.

Administer StorageGRID

  • Anyone who can sign in to the Grid Manager can view legacy alarms.

  • You must have the Acknowledge alarms permission to acknowledge alarms.

  • You must have both the Grid topology page configuration and Other grid configuration permissions to manage global alarms and email notifications.

Administer StorageGRID

How do I manage email notifications?

Select ALERTS > Email setup.

Note: Because alarms and alerts are independent systems, the email setup used for alarm and AutoSupport notifications is not used for alert notifications. However, you can use the same mail server for all notifications.

Set up email notifications for alerts

Select SUPPORT > Alarms (legacy) > Legacy email setup.

Manage alarms (legacy system)

How do I manage SNMP notifications?

Select CONFIGURATION > Monitoring > SNMP agent.

Use SNMP monitoring

Not supported

How do I control who receives notifications?

  1. Select ALERTS > Email setup.

  2. In the Recipients section, enter an email address for each email list or person who should receive an email when an alert occurs.

Set up email notifications for alerts

  1. Select SUPPORT > Alarms (legacy) > Legacy email setup.

  2. Creating a mailing list.

  3. Select Notifications.

  4. Select the mailing list.

Manage alarms (legacy system)

Which Admin Nodes send notifications?

A single Admin Node (the preferred sender).

What is an Admin Node?

A single Admin Node (the preferred sender).

What is an Admin Node?

How do I suppress some notifications?

  1. Select ALERTS > Silences.

  2. Select the alert rule you want to silence.

  3. Specify a duration for the silence.

  4. Select the severity of alert you want to silence.

  5. Select to apply the silence to the entire grid, a single site, or a single node.

Note: If you have enabled the SNMP agent, silences also suppress SNMP traps and informs.

Silence alert notifications

  1. Select SUPPORT > Alarms (legacy) > Legacy email setup.

  2. Select Notifications.

  3. Select a mailing list, and select Suppress.

Manage alarms (legacy system)

How do I suppress all notifications?

Select ALERTS > Silences.Then, select All rules.

Note: If you have enabled the SNMP agent, silences also suppress SNMP traps and informs.

Silence alert notifications

Not supported

How do I customize the conditions and triggers?

  1. Select ALERTS > Rules.

  2. Select a default rule to edit, or select Create custom rule.

Edit alert rules

Create custom alert rules

  1. Select SUPPORT > Alarms (legacy) > Global alarms.

  2. Create a Global Custom alarm to override a Default alarm or to monitor an attribute that does not have a Default alarm.

Manage alarms (legacy system)

How do I disable an individual alert or alarm?

  1. Select ALERTS > Rules.

  2. Select the rule, and select Edit rule.

  3. Clear the Enabled checkbox.

Disable alert rules

  1. Select SUPPORT > Alarms (legacy) > Global alarms.

  2. Select the rule, and select the Edit icon.

  3. Clear the Enabled checkbox.

Manage alarms (legacy system)