Specifications

SAP R/3’s System Management 123
The following manuals are also available:
• Netfinity Manager Quick Beginnings, part 30F6988
• Netfinity Manager User Guide, part 30F6984
• Netfinity Manager Command Reference, part 30F6989
• Netfinity Services Quick Beginnings, part 4306981
• Netfinity Services User Guide, part 30F6985
You may also find the following manuals on the ServerGuide on the Book Factory
CD-ROM in PostScript format. The files are in the \PUBS\EN directory.
• OWMGREN.PS -- Netfinity Manager User's Guide
• OWSVCEN.PS -- Client Services for Netfinity Manager User's Guide
• COMREFEN.PS -- Netfinity Manager Command Reference
• NETSVCEN.PS -- Client Services for Netfinity Manager for NetWare User's
Guide
On the Software Guide CD-ROM in the ServerGuide package you can also obtain
these manuals in OS/2 Help File (INF) format. They are in the \PUBS\EN
directory of that CD-ROM.
On the Application Guide CD 3A in the ServerGuide package, you can get all
Netfinity Manager manuals in OS/2 Help File (INF) format and Acrobat Reader
Format (PDF) as well. The
Netfinity Services Quick Beginnings manual is in
Hypertext markup language format (HTML). They are in the \Netfin\EN\DOCS\
directory of that CD-ROM. Additionally, there are two tools, XView.exe and
IView.exe, to read the OS/2 Help File format in Windows NT or Windows 95.
5.3.5.1 Alert Manager
The Alert Manager is an extendable facility that allows receiving and processing
of application-generated alerts. A predefined set of alert profiles is available to
monitor the subsystems of the IBM Netfinity and PC Servers (for example RAID
alerts, PFA alerts, ECC memory monitors).
A variety of actions can be taken in response to alerts, including logging alerts,
notifying the user, forwarding the alert to another system, executing a program,
playing a WAV file (available only on multimedia systems), generating an SNMP
alert message, dialing out to a digital pager service (available only on systems
that have a modem), or taking an application-defined action. Actions are
user-definable, using a highly flexible action management interface.
An extensive, detailed log is kept of all alerts received by the Alert Manager.
Logged information available from the log includes date and time the alert was
The GUI program files for ECC configuration, System Partition
Access, RAID administration, Predictive Failure Analysis and DMI
Browser will be installed regardless of whether your system has the
associated hardware features installed. This enables a network
administrator to remotely access these services on other systems.
But the icons in the Netfinity Manager main menu of these services
are available only if the managed systems have certain system
configurations.
All Services Installed?