Updated on 2023-05-15 GMT+08:00

Viewing the Alarm List

The alarm list displays all alarms in the MRS cluster. The MRS page displays the alarms that need to be handled in a timely manner and the events.

On the MRS management console, you can only query basic information about uncleared MRS alarms on the Alarms tab page. For details about how to view alarm details or manage alarms, see Viewing and Manually Clearing an Alarm.

Alarms are listed in chronological order by default in the alarm list, with the most recent alarms displayed at the top.

Table 1 describes various fields in an alarm.

Table 1 Alarm description

Parameter

Description

Alarm ID

ID of an alarm.

Alarm Name

Name of an alarm.

Severity

Alarm severity.

In versions earlier than MRS 3.x, the cluster alarm severity is as follows:

  • Critical

    Indicates alarms reporting errors that affect cluster running, such as unavailable cluster services, node faults, data inconsistency between the active and standby GaussDB databases, and abnormal LdapServer data synchronization. You need to check the cluster status based on the alarms and rectify the faults in a timely manner.

  • Major

    Indicates alarms reporting errors that affect some cluster functions, including process faults, periodic backup task failures, and abnormal key file permissions. Check the objects for which the alarms are generated based on the alarms and clear the alarms in a timely manner.

  • Minor

    Indicates alarms reporting errors that do not affect major functions of the current cluster, including alarms indicating that the certificate file is about to expire, audit logs fail to be dumped, and the license file is about to expire.

  • Warning

    Indicates an alarm of the lowest severity. It is used for information display or prompt and indicates that an event occurs in the scenarios when you stop a service, delete a service, stop an instance, delete an instance, delete a node, restart a service, restart an instance, perform an active/standby switchover for MRS Manager, scale in a host, or restore an instance. Additionally, this type of alarms also occurs when an instance is faulty, a job executed successfully, or a job failed to be executed.

In MRS 3.x or later, the alarm severity of a cluster is as follows:

  • Critical

    Indicates alarms reporting errors that affect cluster running, such as unavailable cluster services, node faults, data inconsistency between the active and standby GaussDB databases, and abnormal LdapServer data synchronization. You need to check the cluster status based on the alarms and rectify the faults in a timely manner.

  • Major

    Indicates alarms reporting errors that affect some cluster functions, including process faults, periodic backup task failures, and abnormal key file permissions. Check the objects for which the alarms are generated based on the alarms and clear the alarms in a timely manner.

  • Minor

    Indicates alarms reporting errors that do not affect major functions of the current cluster, including alarms indicating that the certificate file is about to expire, audit logs fail to be dumped, and the license file is about to expire.

  • Suggestion

    Indicates an alarm of the lowest severity. It is used for information display or prompt and indicates that an event occurs in the scenarios when you stop a service, delete a service, stop an instance, delete an instance, delete a node, restart a service, restart an instance, perform an active/standby switchover for MRS Manager, scale in a host, or restore an instance. Additionally, this type of alarms also occurs when an instance is faulty, a job executed successfully, or a job failed to be executed.

Generated

Time when the alarm is generated.

Location

Details about the alarm.

Operation

If the alarm can be manually cleared, click Clear Alarm.

To view details about an alarm, click View Help. (This function is available in MRS 3.x or later).

Table 2 Button description

Button

Description

Select an interval for refreshing the alarm list from the drop-down list.

  • Refresh every 30s
  • Refresh every 60s
  • Stop refreshing

Select an alarm severity from the drop-down list box to filter alarms.

For versions earlier than MRS 3.x, the following alarms can be filtered: All, Critical, Major, Minor, and Warning.

(For MRS 3.x or later) You can filter the following alarms: All, Critical, Major, Minor, and Warning.

Click and manually refresh the alarm list.

Advanced Search

Click Advanced Search. In the displayed alarm search area, set search criteria and click Search to view the information about specified alarms. You can click Reset to clear the search criteria.