Method and apparatus for monitoring and alerting errors in a distributed storage network

A computing device of a group of computing devices of a storage network, the computing device comprises:

• an interface;
• a local memory;
• and
• a processing module operably coupled to the interface and the local memory, wherein the processing module functions to:
• monitor a plurality of storage network storage units;
• detect that a storage unit of the plurality storage units requires maintenance;
• determine a plurality of maintenance tasks for the storage unit;
• determine a priority for execution for each maintenance task of the plurality of maintenance tasks;
• update a status of the storage unit to indicate that the storage unit is in a maintenance mode;
• facilitate execution of a first maintenance task;
• capture results for the first maintenance task;
• determine whether execution of a first maintenance task has generated an exception;
• and
• in response to a determination that execution of a first maintenance task has generated an exception, transmit a message indicating the exception to a storage network entity.

A method for execution by one or more processing modules of one or more computing devices of a storage network, the method comprises:

• monitoring a plurality storage network storage nodes;
• determining that a storage node of the plurality storage nodes requires maintenance;
• determining one or more maintenance tasks for the storage node;
• updating a status of the storage node to indicate that the storage node is in a maintenance mode;
• facilitating execution of the one or more maintenance tasks;
• capturing maintenance task results;
• determining whether a maintenance task of the one or more maintenance tasks has generated an exception;
• and
• in response to a determination that a maintenance task of the one or more maintenance tasks has generated an exception, transmitting a message indicating the exception to a storage network entity.