IBM XIV User Manual

Activating a Rule
Activates an event notification rule.
rule_activate rule=RuleName
Parameters:
Name Type Description Mandatory
rule Object name Name of the rule to be
activated.
Y
This command activates the specified rule. An active rule is matched against
events and generates notifications. If the rule is already active, then this command
has no effect.
Access Control:
User Category Permission
Storage administrator Allowed
Storage integration administrator Disallowed
Application administrator Disallowed
Security administrator Disallowed
Read-only users Disallowed
Technicians Disallowed
Completion Codes:
v EVENT_RULE_NAME_DOES_NOT_EXIST
Event rule name does not exist
Creating Event Notification Rules
Creates an event notification rule.
rule_create rule=RuleName
[ min_severity=<INFORMATIONAL|WARNING|MINOR|MAJOR|CRITICAL|NONE> ]
[ codes=Codes | except_codes=EventCodes ]
[ escalation_only=<yes|no> ]
dests=dest1,dest2,...
[ snooze_time=SnoozeTime ]
[ escalation_time=EscalationTime escalation_rule=EscalationRule ]
Parameters:
Name Type Description Mandatory Default
rule Object name Name of the new
rule.
Y N/A
min_
severity
Enumeration Minimum event
severity for rule
filtering.
N All severities.
codes N/A Filter only events
with these codes.
N All events.
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IBM XIV Specifications

General

Power Supply	Redundant power supplies
Drive Type	SATA
Redundancy	Fully redundant components
Connectivity	Fibre Channel, iSCSI
Form Factor	Rack-mounted
Cache	Distributed cache across modules
Data Protection	Snapshots, remote mirroring
Performance	High throughput and low latency
Scalability	Modular, scale-out architecture
Cooling	Redundant cooling
Architecture	Grid-based, distributed architecture