Managing the Audible Alarms

The audible alarm is a configurable warning that indicates that a controller module or a expansion drawer is experiencing a critical failure. You can configure the audible alarm to sound when a failure occurs, or you can disable the audible alarm.

The audible alarm is just one of three ways that the storage management software alerts you of errors on the . These indications also appear when an error occurs:


Note:

You can set audible alarms for the controller module or the expansion drawers on each storage subsystem. Audible alarms associated with expansion drawers continue to sound for any failures that are associated with expansion drawer components regardless of the alarm settings for the controller module.

  1. To turn on the audible alarm, select Storage Subsystem >> Manage Enclosure Alarm .
  2. Do you want to manage the audible alarm for each enclosure individually?
  3. Select the enclosure on which you would like to configure the audible alarm.
  4. Configure the audible alarm by selecting one of these options:
  5. Repeat step 3 through step 4 for any additional enclosures.
  6. Click Apply.
  7. Click OK.
  8. To silence the audible alarm after it sounds, perform one of these actions:
    A dialog appears that indicates that the audible alarm has been silenced.

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