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Is NetApp DFM capable of alerting on “interface down” or “SAS channel down"?

tguntrip — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:04:12 GMT

Hi,

Query from my customer; support haven't been able to assist.

Is NetApp DFM capable of alerting on “interface down” or “SAS channel down”. If it is – then we have an issue:

Specifically - Unplugging a network cable or SAS cable does not get recognised in DFM. We have waited a number of hours AND change the monitoring time to 1 minute.

I have seen events (I think triggered on DFM start-up):

An Error event at 30 Jan 16:57 GMT Standard Time on interface e0c on Active/Active Controller controller.local: Interface Status Down.

DFM – 5.02.7873

DOT - 8.0.2 7-Mode

Anything else we can try?

Thanks,

Tony

Re: Is NetApp DFM capable of alerting on “interface down” or “SAS channel down"?

GARDINEC_EBRD — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:39:40 GMT

Hi Tony,

Hope you are well.

Can you check if the filer(s) are set to send SNMP traps to the DFM server? Check the output of the 'snmp' command on the filer(s). Traphost should include the hostname or ip of the DFM server and 'init' should be set to '1'. If not...

snmp traphost add <hostname | IP address>

snmp init 1

...should do the trick.

Regards,

Craig

Re: Is NetApp DFM capable of alerting on “interface down” or “SAS channel down"?

tguntrip — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:11:13 GMT

Thanks Craig - I've asked the customer to try this and report back. I'll post an update when I get one.

Cheers annd thanks,

Tony

Re: Is NetApp DFM capable of alerting on “interface down” or “SAS channel down"?

tguntrip — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:49:27 GMT

Hi Craig,

That made no difference, I'm afraid. Does anyone else have any other ideas?

Thanks all,

Tony

Re: Is NetApp DFM capable of alerting on “interface down” or “SAS channel down"?

kryan — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:06:56 GMT

DFM/UM cannot alert on a link break, although I am not sure that is causing your lack of alerts.

Check the evevnttype list for any events that might be useful in logging an event, which are mandatory for generating an alert/triggering an alarm. I do not recall any SAS specific events but do not have CLI access at the moment.

Re: Is NetApp DFM capable of alerting on “interface down” or “SAS channel down"?

adaikkap — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:17:20 GMT

Hi Tony,

Can you check if there is TRAP defined for the same ? If so then Craigs suggestion of enabled DFM host as trap receiver should get you this event.

The only down side is that all event raised for traps are of the severity Information and they dont show up in the events report.

Pls use events-history report to view the same or change the trap severity to make it show up in the normal report.

The default event severity definition in OCUM for Traps is Information. But the same can be modified.

Default Severity Definition for all trap events is Information :

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

C:\>dfm eventtype list | findstr /i trap-received

alert-trap-received Information alert-trap-received

critical-trap-received Information critical-trap-received

emergency-trap-received Information emergency-trap-received

error-trap-received Information error-trap-received

information-trap-received Information information-trap-received

notification-trap-received Information notification-trap-received

warning-trap-received Information warning-trap-received

C:\>

Modify them as follows:

++++++++++++++++++++

C:\>dfm eventtype modify -v Warning alert-trap-received

Modified event "alert-trap-received".

C:\>dfm eventtype modify -v Critical critical-trap-received

Modified event "critical-trap-received".

C:\>dfm eventtype modify -v Emergency emergency-trap-received

Modified event "emergency-trap-received".

C:\>dfm eventtype modify -v Error error-trap-received

Modified event "error-trap-received".

C:\>dfm eventtype modify -v Warning warning-trap-received

Modified event "warning-trap-received".

C:\>

Now you will receive the trap with appropriate severity:

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

C:\>dfm eventtype list | findstr /i trap-received

alert-trap-received Warning alert-trap-received

critical-trap-received Critical critical-trap-received

emergency-trap-received Emergency emergency-trap-received

error-trap-received Error error-trap-received

information-trap-received Information information-trap-received

notification-trap-received Information notification-trap-received

warning-trap-received Warning warning-trap-received

The drawback or side effect:

======================

When a trap other than information severity is generated the object status of the filer changes from green to orange, yellow or red.

And even when the condition is rectified the object status doesn’t return back to green as there is no neutralization event.

Now to overcome and make the object status green resolve the event by clicking on the resolve now.

Regards

adai

Re: Is NetApp DFM capable of alerting on “interface down” or “SAS channel down"?

MROSENKRANZEBSCO — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:18:01 GMT

This has bitten me before and I never found a solution in DFM either. I eventually wrote a Perl script run that scans the filer message log every 15 minutes and sends me an email if it sees (among other things):

netif.linkUp

netif.linkDown

So if a link goes down, I get an email that says something like this:

Fri Mar 29 12:09:45 EDT [<filer name>: netif.linkDown:info]: Ethernet c0a: Link down, check cable.

Re: Is NetApp DFM capable of alerting on “interface down” or “SAS channel down"?

SATISH_WALMART — Mon, 12 May 2014 18:59:04 GMT

I still guess there is no option to monitor a Nic Port going down. Can someone please let us know if there is any alarm to monitor the same.