How to clear Exadata Storage Alerts

Updated 01 Jun 2016 Read time 1 min 6 sec(s) (896 views). Storage

There are times you need to clear Exadata storage alerts. Its very important that you investigate and resolve the issue before clearing any storage alers. Additionally, you want to make a note of storage alert before you clear that alert. You can follow below steps to clear storage alert on one or all storage cells

[root@cell01 ~]# cellcli
CellCLI: Release 18.1.4.0.0 - Production on Wed Jun  1 11:32:16 BST 2016

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List Exadata Storage Alerts

CellCLI> list alerthistory
45_1 2015-01-30T07:12:25+01:00 critical "ORA-00700: soft internal error, arguments: [main_21], [11], [Not enough open file descriptors], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []"
45_2 2015-02-16T13:11:55+01:00 critical "RS-700 [No IP found in Exadata config file] [Check cellinit.ora] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []"
46_1 2015-10-20T19:43:44+01:00 critical "Configuration check discovered the following problems: Verify network configuration: 

46_2 2015-10-20T19:43:44+01:00 clear "The configuration check was successful."

Validate cell configuration
```
CellCLI> alter cell validate configuration
Cell exceladm01 successfully altered
```
If there are no errors returned, all problems are resolved. If this is the case, you can clear all relevant event logs with the command in the next step.

Drop all Storage alerts

CellCLI> drop alerthistory all
Alert 45_1 successfully dropped
Alert 45_2 successfully dropped

List storage alerts to validate they are gone

CellCLI> list alerthistory

CellCLI> exit
quitting

Repeat above steps on all storage cells