In many environments, when a volume fills, we don't want notifications to go to the storage administrator. By default, we shouldn't do anything about them because we don't know the cause of the volume filling - is it a trend or an event? Is it temporary? Has the user bought or budgeted more storage? The users (should) know but we don't.
Please add a user-configurable option on every non-root volume, perhaps named alert-to, that storage administrators can use to add 1 or more email addresses. When a utility like Unified Manager detects the event, send the email to the alert-to address(es), not the storage administrator.
#ONTAP notification alerts
fringe pendant
native tinsel
Since you have UM, you can configure user/volume notification there. Settings -> Storage Management -> Alert Setup. UM can also trigger a script so you can define other actions besides email (ex: autogrowing inodes on certain volumes).
fringe pendant
Yup, but the email alert still needs to get an email address from somewhere. Not all volume alerts go to the same email list. A standard location supported by NetApp would be helpful instead of having customers kludge their own solutions.
native tinsel
I think managing it UM is easier than on the cluster side. Create an alert for ProjectA or UserGroupB and just add the volumes to the alert. To me, that's easier than configuring an alert-to on each volume across all the clusters.
UM also has 'annotations' which let you add custom values to UM objects (volumes/etc).