alerts select

Specifies one or more event priorities for the selected type of event notification.

You can also use this command to effectively disable e-mail or syslog notification.

Table 2: Event Priorities describes event priorities in order of decreasing severity.

Table 2: Event Priorities

Priority

Description

fatal

Catastrophic failure that may require immediate administrator intervention or an array restart.

error

Serious failure that should be investigated and may require administrator intervention.

warning

Potential problems in the group. May become an event with error priority if administrator intervention does not occur.

info

Normal operational and transitional events in the group that are of interest to administrators but do not require intervention. Setting this priority can result in a large number of notifications.

Format

alerts select method priority priority|show

Variable  

method

One of the following notification methods:

email – E-mail notification.

syslog – Remote syslog notification.

priority filter

Priority of the event messages that result in notification, either info, warning, error, fatal, or none. Separate multiple priorities with commas (and no spaces).

Specify none to disable all event notification for the selected method. This allows you to temporarily disable notification for the selected method.

Subcommand 

show

Displays the event priorities for the selected method.

Examples

The following command allows a remote syslog server to receive only events with error and fatal priorities:

> alerts select syslog priority error,fatal

The following command displays the event priorities for e-mail notification:

> alerts select email show

Priority is :: warning,error,fatal