topic Re: How to Alert on Snapshots Stuck in a Deleting State in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions

How to Alert on Snapshots Stuck in a Deleting State

TMADOCTHOMAS — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:34:02 GMT

In the last few weeks, for some reason I've experienced snapshots on some of our SnapInfo volumes getting stuck in a "Deleting" state. Essentially, when SMSQL is trying to delete the oldest snapshot, it will get stuck. A few days later I'll get alerts indicating there are too many snapshots. I find the "deleting" snapshot and remove it and all older ones to clear the issue.

I would like to have an email alert sent if a Snapshot is stuck in the 'deleting' state. Does anyone know if that's possible in OCUM 6.2 for Cdot? Or through some other means?

Re: How to Alert on Snapshots Stuck in a Deleting State

Jeff_Yao — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 06:01:31 GMT

hi,

i think you can try to monitor "deleting snapshot failed".

hopefully helps

thanks

Jeff

Re: How to Alert on Snapshots Stuck in a Deleting State

TMADOCTHOMAS — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 17:37:24 GMT

Thanks! I looked for that event but didn't see it in the list. We are on OCUM 6.3. What version of OCUM is that event available on?