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NEC ExpressA1160 User Manual

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Configuring Alerts using Server Management Software

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specify the following settings:

• Select

the

Sample Interval

seconds to set the storage sampling interval.

• Select

Enable Pre-failure Prediction

to configure a hard-disk prefailure

prediction.

• Set

Device HD

to a device that needs to be reset.

• Click

Reset Status

to reset that status of the selected device, such as an

exchanged hard disk.

• Click

ok

.

7. Select

Filesys

and press Enter.

The Filesystem window for monitoring functions appears, on which you can specify
the following settings:

• Select

the

Sample Interval

seconds to set the file system capacity sampling

interval.

• Set

Filesystem

to the file system to monitor or for which you want to configure

thresholds.

• Select

Disable Threshold

or Enable Threshold, as desired.

• Select values for Fatal and Warning alerts for file system capacity threshold

violations.

• Click

ok

.

8. Select

LAN

and press Enter.

The LAN Properties window for monitoring functions appears, on which you can
specify the following settings:

• Select

the

Sample Interval

seconds to set the LAN monitoring cycle interval.

• Select

the

Network Hardware Error

threshold, which is the percentage of

errors permitted for each monitoring cycle. Network hardware errors include
alignment errors (broken packets for collision), FCS errors (broken packets for
collision), and carrier sense errors (cable disconnected or defective or
transceiver defective).

Note: Be sure that all network cables are tightly connected and the power
switch is on.

• Select

the

Transmission Retry %

threshold, which is the percentage of

collision errors of total transmitted packets permitted for each monitoring cycle.
Transmission errors are caused by heavy network traffic or defective network
devices.

• Select

the

Transmission Abort %

threshold, which is the percentage of

packets disposed because of excess collision errors permitted for each