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This PR explains an alert that may appear when the check_raid XAPI plugin triggers a notification in XOA, addressing customer confusion over whether it indicates an issue or a routine data check.

Describe an alert that can be automatically triggered by the check_raid plugin
when dealing with software RAID setups, so users are aware of it and not caught off guard.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Moraine <[email protected]>
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This belongs to the Xen Orchestra doc. They can decide whether they want to display such alerts or instead silence them as they don't reveal any actual issue.

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An automated RAID health check is performed regularly using the `check_raid` plugin.

This plugin is executed automatically every ten minutes by Xen Orchestra on each host. When a check is in progress, Xen Orchestra displays an alert to notify users that the RAID status is being verified:
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This doesn't really explain why it does so, and as a user one would be legitimate to ask "why display it at all?".

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