User's Guide

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7signal Sapphire Carat Carat User Guide Release 3.0
22.4 Creating an SLA group .............................................................................................74
22.4.1 Creating an SLA group from a template ........................................................75
22.4.2 Creating an SLA group from scratch ..............................................................75
22.4.3 Binding an SLA group to a Link ......................................................................76
22.4.4 Binding an SLA group to a link group .............................................................76
23 Viewer Software ................................................................................................................77
24 Email Servers .....................................................................................................................78
25 Database Backup ...............................................................................................................79
25.1 Backup options ........................................................................................................79
25.1.1 Automated backup with server downtime ....................................................79
25.1.2 Automated backup without server downtime ...............................................79
25.2 Database logging .....................................................................................................79
25.2.1 Purging database logs ...................................................................................79
25.3 Backup method options...........................................................................................80
25.3.1 Default state (not recommemded)................................................................80
25.3.2 First degree of backup: offline backup ..........................................................81
25.3.3 2nd degree of backup: online backup ...........................................................81
25.3.4 Changing log settings ....................................................................................82
25.3.5 Managing backup levels ................................................................................82
25.3.6 File system settings for the database ............................................................82
25.3.7 Changing backup settings .............................................................................83
25.4 Restoring backups ...................................................................................................83
26 Nagios Support ..................................................................................................................84
26.1 Adding Sapphire Host Information To Nagios Server ................................................84
26.2 Adding Nagios Plug-ins To Sapphire Software ..........................................................85
26.2.1 Install NRPE daemon.....................................................................................85
26.2.2 Install toolset ‘Nagios plugins’.......................................................................85
26.3 Verifying Nagios Installation ....................................................................................85
26.4 Removing Nagios plugins .........................................................................................85