Alarms Troubleshooting

The table below provides information about the Alarms windows:

Alarm Description

Explanation

Check  Event Logs

Volume Failure

A volume that is part of a mapping defined in SANmanager has been marked offine.

(System Event Log)

 DcsState, 4

 DcsHa,11

Transport Failure

Network Edition has lost LAN communication with a host in the region.

(System Event Log)

 DcsSDS, 209

 DcsSDS, 217

 App Server Reboot Required

A change in SANmanager requires the restart of an application server.

(System Event Log)

 DcsCap,15

Fibre Channel Disruption

A storage server channel had to be reinitialized, causing a disruption in the connected Fibre Channel network.  If this behavior continues, the port will be taken offline, generating ” FC port failure” alarm.

(System Event Log)

 DcsFcEng,25

 FC Port Failure

A storage server channel was taken offline due to excessive disruptions. This is for the health of the overall Fibre Channel network.  Disks presented on that server channel are affected.

(System Event Log)

 EvDcsFcEng,25

 DcsFcEng,26

 DcsFcEng,17

Mirror Down

A storage server cannot write I/O to a remote mirror volume, and will begin its recovery log.  The log data will be recovered when the remote Volume comes back online.  Also, look at the other storage server alarms for a Volume Failed alarm.

(System Event Log)

 DcsHa,4

 DcsHa,7

Mirror Resync Failed

Mirror resynchronization failed to complete successfully.

(System Event Log)

 DcsHa,6

Region Configuration out of Synchronization

One or more storage servers in the Region do not have the latest, correct configuration from SANmanager.  

(Application Event Log)

 DcsSDS,440

 DcsSDS,437

Fibre Channel Port Not Ready

The DataCore FC Initiator driver is unavailable.

(System Event Log)

Look for DcsFcMin,15

Applied Configuration Failed

An attempt to apply a new configuration from SANmanager failed. SANmanager will have reported this failure at time of the Apply.

(Application Event Log)

CapConfig,4

CapConfig,13

CapConfig,14

CapConfig,15

CapConfig,16

Alarms Troubleshooting