TrueNAS SCALE Documentation Archive
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Alert Settings Screens
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Last Modified 2023-08-31 13:31 EDTThe Alert Settings screen displays options to set warning levels and frequencies.
To access this screen, click the
icon, then click the icon and select Alert Settings on the dropdown list.Use the Category dropdown list to display alert settings for each category. Select from:
Applications alert settings display by default. These alerts apply to the third-party applications you deploy on your TrueNAS system.
Certificates alert settings apply to certificates you add through the Credentials > Certificates screen.
Clustering alert settings apply to TrueNAS SCALE clusters you create in TrueCommand.
Directory Service alert settings apply to the Active Directory and LDAP servers configured on your TrueNAS.
TrueNAS Enterprise
This section only applies to TrueNAS Enterprise hardware.
High Availability alert settings apply to TrueNAS Enterprise HA systems and only displays on the list of alerts for dual-controller High-Availability systems with an Enterprise license applied.
Hardware alert settings apply to the IPMI network connections, and S.M.A.R.T. and smartd that monitors the hard drives installed on your TrueNAS system.
Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) alert settings only apply to KMIP configured on a TrueNAS Enterprise system.
Plugins alert settings apply to plugins installed on your TrueNAS.
Network alert settings apply to network interfaces configured on your TrueNAS.
Reporting alert settings apply to collectd, database size threshold, and syslog processes on your TrueNAS.
Sharing alert settings apply to iSCSI, NFS, or SMB shares and connections configured on your TrueNAS.
Storage alert settings apply to quotas, pools, snapshots, and scrub processes on your TrueNAS.
System alert settings apply to system processes, the system dataset, TrueCommand API Key, SSH logins, system reboots, updates, and the web interface.
Task alert settings apply to cloud sync, VMWare snapshots, replication, rsync, scrub and snapshot tasks scheduled on your TrueNAS.
UPS alert settings apply to a UPS connected to your TrueNAS.
Use the Set Warning Level dropdown list to customize alert importance. Each warning level has an icon and color to express the level of urgency.
To make the system email you when alerts with a specific warning level trigger, set up an email alert service with that warning level.
Level | Icon | Alert Notification? |
---|---|---|
INFO | ![]() | No |
NOTICE | ![]() | Yes |
WARNING | ![]() | Yes |
ERROR | ![]() | Yes |
CRITICAL | ![]() | Yes |
ALERT | ![]() | Yes |
EMERGENCY | ![]() | Yes |
Use the Set Frequency dropdown list to adjust how often the system sends or displays alert notifications.
Alert frequency options are Immediately (Default), Hourly, Daily or Never. Setting the Frequency to Never prevents that alert from displaying in the Alerts Notification dialog, but it still pops up in the web UI if triggered.