Alert Event Categories

The following table describes the alert event categories that are available. BUI event categories are listed in the Category menu in the Event section of the Add action dialog box. Events within each category are listed when you select the category.

CLI event categories are values of the category property and can be listed by entering set category= followed by a tab character. Events within each category are listed when you specify the category and then issue the show command.

Table 2-38 Alert Action Event Categories

BUI Category	CLI Category	Description
Active Directory	ad	Active Directory or SMB Kerberos client authentication degraded.
All events	all	High-level events such as all alerts or defects, service alerts, and hardware faults.
Analytics	analytics	High-level events such as datasets auto-suspend warning, memory total exceeded, and usage exceeded.
Appliance Software	appliance_software	Events that prevent software update or that result in kernel panic.
Cloud Snapshot	cloud	Cloud operations, including backup and restore of share snapshots to the cloud.
Cluster	cluster	Cluster events, including link failures and peer errors.
Custom	custom	An alert action for a user-defined event, which is specified in a workflow. See Creating and Posting Custom Alerts from Within a Workflow.
Hardware events	hardware	Appliance boot and hardware configuration changes.
Hardware faults	hardware_faults	Any hardware fault.
NDMP operations NDMP: backup only NDMP: restore only	ndmp backup restore	NDMP TAR/DUMP backup and restore start and finish events.
Network	network	Network port, datalink, and IP interface events and failures.
Phone home	scrk	Support bundle upload events.
Remote replication Remote replication: source only Remote replication: target only	replication replication_source replication_target	Send and receive events and failures.
Services	smf	Software services failure events.
Shadow migration events	shadow	Migration errors or migration complete.
Thresholds	thresholds	In the BUI, Thresholds events are Stat threshold error, Stat threshold normal, and Stat threshold violated. In the CLI, thresholds enables you to add an action to an existing threshold event alert as described in Adding an Action for a Specific Threshold Alert (CLI).
ZFS pool	zfs_pool	Storage pool events, including scrub and hot space activation.