In case anyone encounters this issue, the alert went away on its own and the status light is now green.I emailed support, provided some details, sent aruba support some log files and this was their response. Hope this helps someone. -Thnx.
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Thank you for the response.
the message "slot 0 tmp storage full" means that the slot 0 temporary files storage have reached full.
As per the logs I can see that there are no large files under /tmp directory.
#show memory debug ((pasted needed output))
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No excessively large files found under /tmp
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Files in /tmp directory (in blocks)
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4 RebootCause
0 auth_restart
0 certmgr
0 cli-helper.sock
4 cliWebCfgData.cfg
0 cloudcfg_rx_fifo
0 cloudcfg_tx_fifo
4 countryCode
4 cpu
4 dbbk-periodic.pid
0 dbsync
0 dbupdated
4 deviceCertLib.log
8 deviceCertLib.log.debug
4 dhcpd.lease
4 drive_test.log
4 ecdsa.der
4 ecdsakey.dat
4 ecdsakey.der
0 fieldCertTmp
0 fieldPrivKeys
0 fipspipe
4 http_log_level
0 ike_restart
4 invbarf
4 lic_cb
4 localtime
40 mem_mon_last_poll
36 mem_mon_once
4 msgh_debug_counters
0 msghdlr_comm
0 mysql.sock
4 name
0 nanny
0 nastmp
8 pretemp.cfg
4 profmgr_ids
4 profmgr_pid
4 ramfs_size
0 sap_dnlded
4 snmpstart
4 snmptrapstart
0 soedInternalOnly
4 ss_cert.pem
0 sshclicomm
4 stackmgr_trace.txt
4 swkey
0 syslogcmdfp
0 tempCertKey
4 tpmCertPresent
4 tpmKeyHandles.bin
4 uii.cache
0 usb
0 user-db-dbBackup.error
So there not much to worry. Please do a regular check on the "Use %" under #show storage member all" command in intervals of 3-4 hours and see if we are getting any increment (refer below output):
#show storage member all
Member-id: 0
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Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
none 300.0M 3.6M 296.4M 1% /tmp
/dev/ud3 755.6M 22.6M 694.6M 3% /flash
Member-id: 1
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Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
none 300.0M 20.1M 279.9M 7% /tmp
/dev/ud3 755.6M 17.3M 699.9M 2% /flash
Member-id: 2
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Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
none 300.0M 12.1M 287.9M 4% /tmp
/dev/ud3 755.6M 17.3M 699.9M 2% /flash