Brand: HITACHI
Category: Storage System
Document Type: Manual
Language: EN
Manual for VSP5000
Uploaded: Nov. 21, 2025, 8:21 p.m.
Manual Publish Date: 2019-10-01
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The Alert Notification feature provides failure monitoring functions for your storage systems by using SNMP, enabling you to recognize and fix failures. This document guides you through setting up and configuring alert notification email, Syslog, and SNMP. It covers editing email settings, Syslog settings, and SNMP settings, including managing trap notifications and request authentication. It also provides an overview of SNMP and lists supported MIBs. Finally, it details SIM codes and how to convert DB and RDEV numbers to HDD location numbers.
Troubleshooting and error codes
| No. | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Priority | The priority of an item in the syslog file is determined according to the following formula, enclosed by brackets (< >): Priority = 8 X Facility + Severity Facility is 1 (fixed). Severity depends on the type of log information: 4: Error or Warning. Error means the operation has ended abnormally. Warning means the operation has partly ended abnormally or was canceled during the operation. 6: Informational. The operation has ended normally. For example, <12> indicates the priority when the severity is error. |
| 2 | Date, time* | The date and time in the format of "MMM DD HH:MM:SS" (MMM: month such as Jan or Dec, DD: day, HH: hour, MM: minute and SS: second). If the "DD" is a single digit (for example, 1), it is displayed as " 1" (with a blank space before "1") and not as "01". |
| 3 | Detected location | The host name (SVP). |
| 4 | Program name | The detection entity identifier (Storage). |
| 5 | Unified specification identification | The Unified specification identifier (CELFSS). |
| 6 | Identification | The revision number of the Unified specification document (1.1). |
| 7 | Message identification | The serial number of the syslog header information. |
| 8 | No output | No output. |
| 9 | Date, time#2* | The date, time and the time difference between UTC and the local time in the format of "YYYY-MM-DD-Thh:mm:ss.s ± hh:mm". YYYY: year, MM: month, DD: day hh: hour, mm: minute, ss.s: second in one decimal place. ± hh:mm: hours and minute of the time difference. "Z" is displayed instead of "± hh:mm" when there is no time difference between UTC and the local time, such as "2005-12-26T:23:06:58.0Z". |
| 10 | Detection entity | The detection entity identifier (Storage). |
| 11 | Detected location | The host name (SVP). |
| 12 | Type of audit event | * Authentication of RMI, FC-SP, or Device Manager - Storage Navigator. * ConfigurationAccess indicates setting from Device Manager - Storage Navigator, SVP or host. * Maintenance indicates SVP operations. |