HP OpenView Storage Management Appliance and Software - Manual (Page 104)

Maintaining the Storage Management Appliance Software
88 Storage Management Appliance Software V2.0 User Guide
About Status Types
The Storage Management Appliance displays its current status in the Session pane
at the top of the page. This status display is an accumulation of unacknowledged
events in the Event and Audit logs. This status information is refreshed every 30
seconds.
The severity level shown for current status is the highest severity condition found
among unacknowledged events received from devices and applications managed
by the Management Appliance. Table 5 describes all the possible severity levels.
Table 5: Possible Status Types
Status Description
Normal All events have been acknowledged.
Unknown The status of one or more devices is unknown.
Information An informational event.
Warning Further action is optional.
Minor Further action is necessary, but the situation is not serious at
this time.
Major Further action is necessary immediately.
Critical Further action is necessary immediately and the scope is
broad.
Fatal An error occurred, but it is too late to take remedial action.