Hardware needs attention
Restriction: Do not aggregate this event.
The system monitors the overall health and status of the hardware and can notify you when changes occur that can affect the system availability or performance. These changes can include replacement disks with invalid firmware, storage configuration changes, unavailable/unreachable components, disks that reach a grown defects early warning threshold, ethernet switch ports that are down, and other conditions that can be early warnings of problems that can affect system behavior or the ability to manage devices within the system.
If you enable the HwNeedsAttention event rule, the system generates a notification when it detects conditions that can lead to problems or that serve as symptoms of possible hardware failure or performance impacts.
The following is the syntax for the HwNeedsAttention event
rule:
-name 'HardwareNeedsAttention' -on no -eventType hwNeedsAttention
-eventArgsExpr '' -notifyType email -dst 'you@company.com' -ccDst ''
-msg 'NPS system $HOST - $hwType $hwId Needs attention. $eventSource.'
-bodyText '$notifyMsg\n\nlocation:$location\nerror
string:$errString\ndevSerial:$devSerial\nevent source:$eventSource\n'
-eventAggrCount 0
The following table lists the arguments to the HardwareNeedsAttention event rule.
| Arguments | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| hwType | The type of hardware affected | spu |
| hwId | The hardware ID of the component that has a condition to investigate | 1013 |
| location | A string that describes the physical location of the component | |
| errString | If the failed component is not inventoried, it is specified in this string. | |
| devSerial | Specifies the serial number of the component, or Unknown if the component has no serial number. | 601S496A2012 |