sorry, now that I re-read that - that was a complete mistake on my part. I should not read "possible" but "necessary".
I was referring to the loads of automatic notifications that are gererated by the scheduled snapshots on a replicated volume. So, a cycle of these "error" messages is:
- (Master) Replication:Volume Replication: Device lvasterix0101: Connection (from Connected to WFBitMapS)
- (Slave) Replication:Volume Replication: Device lvasterix0101: Connection (from Connected to WFBitMapT)
- (Slave) ... multiple errors depending on how many snapshots one runs on these replicated volumes
This is of course, what you'd expect when setting up volume replication and snapshots on the replicated volume, so these are no errors, since this is expected behaviour.
Does this sound reasonable? For me it would make a lot of sense to be able to turn those notifications off, or at least have them flagged as such, since those are not errors per se.
To put that into perspective: I have got 32 warnings over the last 3 days, each of which is of course an expected notification, since they all are related to the snapshot tasks, that are assigned on the slave volume.
The problem is, and I bet that you'll be with me on that: if one gets repeated warnings or errors that aren't really errors, people tend to just skim over them and are risking to miss the one important error, that they really should have paid attention to.
If I am getting 8 e-mails a day from my DSS hosts, I will start to think that everything is okay, solely based on the number of messages I get. We all know that this shouldn't happen, but if a system runs reliable for a period of time, I guess nobody can help him (or her) making that shortcut - especially if you have to take care of dozens of such systems, which all fire messages at your inbox.
I have forwarded your suggestion to our developers. I hope it will implemented soon.
I don't know if this is possible in your mail software but maybe you can configure some filters for those mails so it will be marked as read or removed and you will be noted only about more important mails for you. It will be a good solution until we will have it implemented in our software.
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