.. _Viewing Alerts and Audit Log and Sending E-mail Notifications: Viewing Alerts and Audit Log and Sending E-mail Notifications ------------------------------------------------------------- This section describes |product_name| alerts and audit log and how to send out e-mail notifications about alerts, warnings, and errors. .. _Viewing Alerts: Viewing Alerts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The **Alerts** tab lists all the alerts logged by |product_name|. An alert is generated and logged each time one of the following conditions is met or events happen: - a critical issue has happened with a cluster, its components (CS, MDS), disks, nodes, or services; - cluster requires configuration or more resources to build or restore its health; - network requires configuration or is experiencing issues that may affect performance; - license is about to expire or has expired; - cluster is about to or has run out of available space. .. only:: ac .. image:: /images/stor_image32_1_ac.png :align: center :class: align-center .. only:: vz .. image:: /images/stor_image32_1_vz.png :align: center :class: align-center To view the details of an alert, select it on the **MONITORING** > **Alerts** screen and click **Details** in the menu on the right. Alerts can be ignored (deleted from the alerts list) or postponed for several hours. Postponed alerts reappear in the list after some time. To ignore or postpone an alert, select it and click the corresponding button. .. _Viewing Audit Log: Viewing Audit Log ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The **MONITORING** > **Audit log** screen lists all management operations performed by users and their activity events. .. only:: ac .. image:: /images/stor_image32_2_ac.png :align: center :class: align-center .. only:: vz .. image:: /images/stor_image32_2_vz.png :align: center :class: align-center To view detailed information on a log entry, select it and click **Show more details**. .. _Sending E-mail Notifications: Sending E-mail Notifications ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |product_name| can send automatic e-mail notifications about errors, warnings, and alerts. To set up e-mail notifications, do the following: #. On the **SETTINGS** > **Advanced settings** > **NOTIFICATIONS** tab, specify the following information: #. In the **From** and **Sender name** fields, the notification sender's e-mail and name. #. In the **To** field, one or more notification recipient e-mails, one per line. #. In the **User account** and **User password** fields, the credentials of the notification sender registered on the SMTP server. #. In the **SMTP server** field, the DNS name of the SMTP server, either public (e.g., ``smtp.gmail.com``) or the one in your organization. The management node must be able to access the SMTP server. #. If required, a custom **SMTP port** the server uses. #. In the **Security** field, the security protocol of the SMTP server. .. only:: ac .. image:: /images/stor_image32_3_ac.png :align: center :class: align-center .. only:: vz .. image:: /images/stor_image32_3_vz.png :align: center :class: align-center #. Tick the checkboxes for alerts you want to be notified about. #. Click **Save**. To send a test e-mail, specify your e-mail registered on the SMTP server in both the **From** and **To** fields and click **Test**.