Monitoring critical errors
(Avoid automatic corrective deletes by DS-System administrative processes.)
This is an optional feature that can be enabled or disabled as required. When enabled and configured, it activates a monitor of specific error messages. If the number of these errors exceed the specified limit within the configured time period, the DS-System will place itself in Critical status. While in this status, the specified administrative processes will be stopped or prevented from starting, thereby allowing you to prevent any automatic corrective deletion of data by those processes.
This feature is useful if you know your network and hardware infrastructure well enough to identify errors on the DS-System that occur because of the network or hardware.
To configure critical error monitoring:
1. On the Setup menu, click Critical Errors Monitoring.
2. In the Configuration tab, do the following:
• Enable / Disable this feature. If disabled, DS-System will run its administrative processes automatically, as required.
• View the current status of the DS-System (for Critical Errors Monitoring).
– Reset the DS-System status (if DS-System is in Critical status).
• Set the number of errors that is the limit, after which the DS-System will switch to Critical status. This number is combined with the Time Period selection.
• Time Period: Set the time period during which the number of monitored errors is counted.
• DS-System constantly checks its database for monitored errors. If an error from the Critical Errors Monitoring List appears, DS-System will check if Critical status applies.
3. Click Monitored Events tab.
• The Monitored Errors List contains a default list of errors to monitor.
• You can add or remove monitored errors as required with the corresponding Add and Remove buttons. For your convenience, the Select button opens a special version of the Event Log Viewer, which allows you to search for a specific event that you want to add to the monitoring list. (This avoids you having to manually type the Event #, Category, and Description.)
• If the sum of all the errors that occurred from this list reaches the configured error limit in the monitoring time period, DS-System will switch to Critical status.
• For example: If you know that when your network encounters issues, the DS-System will suffer several “Invalid directory location” errors, you can monitor for this specific event. If it occurs enough times in the defined monitoring timespan, that would trigger the Critical status, which stops all of the specified Administrative Processes from running. This gives you time to solve the network issue, before DS-System takes its own corrective action on its stored data.
4. Click Administrative Processes tab.
• This tab shows the list of DS-System administrative processes that will be stopped and prevented from running, whenever the DS-System is in Critical status.
• You can add or remove processes as required.
5. Click Apply to save any changes made on the tabs of this dialog box.