1. At Rule Creation, when selecting Any Instance (circled in image), will this still work when adding new storage arrays that aren't currently present in Storage Manager?
Yes, if you make a few assumptions, and that is:
- You select "Any Instance" (which you mention)
- The rule is applied to the "Default SMI-S Policy"
- The user is setup to receive emails from the new device in question
2. What is the Operation Status looking at exactly (circled in image), is it the integer or the Status "Name"? According to SMI-S specifications, the Operational Status is an integer. Does Storage Manager convert the integer to text and if so, should i base the condition on an integer or on the conversion?
- It is stored in the database as a status name, so, we are making the translation before it hits the dataname. So, string, not integer.
3. Quote: "Then click on Rules. Apply the rule that you just saved. Save, then push"
I can't find the Rules button. There's 4 *Rules buttons in the settings page that might make sense but can't be sure which one.
How do i Push?
- Yeah, I guess I shouldn't have been lazy :
4. When selecting Notifications under the user, what do i need to select in order to get this alert for disks in the systems that haven't been added yet? Would the following do the trick, provided the newly added storage array to Storage Manager was added to a group as well? What would happen if it weren't added to a group?
- Yes, you'd want to add it to a group. The only other way around it is if you added the unassigned group as the notification, but that would be a flood of message, so therefore, inadvisable.