Viewing Events

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To view events in VAST Web UI, select Alarms & Events and then Events to open the Events page.

Note

The event log holds the latest up to 1.5 million events.

For each event, the following information can be displayed:

Tip

To display or hide fields, click column_menu.png to the right of a column title, and then click columns.png to open a dropdown where you can select or unselect fields.

ID

The ID of the event.

Date

The date of the event.

Object Name

The name of the object involved in the event.

Message

A description of the event.

Event Type

The type of event that occurred.  See Event Types.

Object Type

The type of the object involved in the event. 

Origin

The initiator of the event. Possible values:

  • Cluster

  • Management

  • Security

  • User

Severity

The severity of the alarm triggered by the event. This setting is inherited from the event definition, and you can modify it. Possible values:

  • Info. No alarm is raised. 

  • Minor. An alarm of minor severity is raised. 

  • Major.  An alarm of major severity is raised.

  • Critical. An alarm of critical severity is raised.