Alerts
An alert is raised if an abnormality is found in:
- a tape drive;
- a scheduled backup configuration;
- a tape pool specification;
- a savepack specification; or
- the system on which the Arkeia backup server is running.
The list of all alerts logged by Arkeia is displayed. You
can change the types of alert logged in the Configure alerts menu.
Tape drive alerts
The possible alerts for a tape drive are:
- the drive needs to be cleaned;
- a hardware failure is predicted;
- the drive temperature is outside the normal range.
Not all tape drives can provide the level of monitoring information
required for these alerts. For example, the last two in the above list
require tape drives which support Quantum DLTSage®. Your tape drive
documentation will tell you if an alert in the above list is
supported.
Tape pool alerts
The possible alerts for a tape pool are:
- There is no space left in the pool: all the tapes in the pool
are filled.
- There is less than a percentage of space free. You can enter the
percentage of free space left which will trigger this alert. The
default is 20%.
- There is less than a number of tapes left. You can enter the
number of free tapes left which will trigger this alert. The default
is 1 tape.
VTL alerts
The possible alerts for a VTL are:
- There is less than a percentage of free space in the VTL. You can
enter the percentage of free space left which will trigger this alert.
The default is 20%.
- There is more than a percentage of used space in the VTL. You can
enter the percentage of used space which will trigger this alert. The
default is 80%.
- There is less than a percentage of free space in filesystem
hosting the VTL. You can enter the percentage of free space left which
will trigger this alert. The default is 10%.
Scheduled backup alerts
The scheduled backup alerts are:
- A Savepack included in this periodic backup no longer exists.
- A Drivepack used by this backup no longer exists.
- A Tape pool used by this periodic backup no longer exists.
Savepack alerts
There is only one alert for Savepacks:
- No license exists to backup a savepack you have included in a
backup.
System alerts
There are two system alerts:
- Disk space too low.
- Inode space too low.