Appliance Alarms

Appliance alarms are deprecated and will be removed in a future release. We recommend that you monitor events instead. For more information see Monitoring Events.

In addition to monitoring events, actions are provided that you can take in response to appliance hardware failure events. You'll be notified of alarms occurring on the appliance via CLI. For example:

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## ALERT: Disk 2: Recovering, Do Not Reboot
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## ALERT: Chassis Fan 1: Failed
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These alarms announce critical events that have occurred, such as fan or disk failures, fiber channel or mate link loss, or other types of hardware failures. Alarms are broadcast to users logged into the appliance through the CLI, and can also be queried over SEMP (over HTTP or the message bus) by monitoring applications.

This alarm broadcast message is also displayed whenever a CLI user logs on to the appliance, provided the hardware failure condition still exists. This is followed by a CLI system alarm prompt, displayed whenever Enter is pressed:

## ATTENTION: Critical System Alarms. Enter "show alarm" to view.
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