Evaluate Other
Triggered Symptoms for the Affected Datastore
Because you need
more information about the datastore before you decide on the best response,
you examine the
Symptoms
tab to see
other triggered symptoms for the datastore.
Verify that you are addressing
the alert for which you received an alert message in your email. See
Respond to an Alert in Your Email.
If other symptoms are
triggered for the object besides the symptom included in the alert, evaluate
them as well. Determine what the symptoms reflect about the state of the object
to decide whether the related recommendations might resolve the problem.
- From the left menu, clickTroubleshootand then clickAlerts. Select the alert name in the data grid.
- In theAlert Detailstab, see the information underSymptoms. Click the object which is displaying the symptoms.
- The object opens underEnvironment. Click . The symptoms tab includes all the symptoms triggered for the current object.OptionEvaluation ProcessCriticalityAre other symptoms of similar criticality present that are affecting the object?SymptomAre any of the triggered symptoms related to the symptoms that triggered the current alert? Symptoms that might indicate storage problems?Created OnDo the date and time stamps for the symptoms indicate that they were triggered before the alert you are investigating, indicating that it might be a related symptom? Were the symptoms triggered after the alert was generated, indicating that the alert symptoms contributed to these other symptoms?InformationCan you identify a correlation between the alert symptoms and the other symptoms based on the triggering metric values?
- If your review of the symptoms and the provided information clearly indicates that the recommendations can solve the problem, implement one or more of the recommendations. For an example of implementing one of the recommendations, see Run a Recommendation on a Datastore to Resolve an Alert.
- If your review of the symptoms did not convince you that the recommendations can resolve the problem or provide you with enough information to identify the root cause, continue your investigation using theEvents > Timelinetab. See Compare Alerts and Events Over Time in Response to a Datastore Alert.