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62UPS Network Management Card 3 User Guide
Types of notification
You can configure notification actions to occur in response to an event. You can notify users of an event in any
of several ways:
• Active, automatic notification. The specified users or monitoring devices are contacted directly.
– E-mail notification
– SNMP traps
– Syslog notification
• Indirect notification
– Event log. If no direct notification is configured, users must check the log to determine which
events have occurred
You can also log system performance data to use for device monitoring. See “Data
log” for information on how to configure and use this data logging option.
– Queries (SNMP GETs)
For more information, see “SNMP Trap Receivers screen” and “SNMP Traps test
screen”. SNMP enables an NMS to perform informational queries. For SNMPv1, which
does not encrypt data before transmission, configuring the most restrictive SNMP
access type (READ) enables informational queries without the risk of allowing remote
configuration changes.
The NMC supports the use of the RFC1628 MIB (Management Information Base). See “SNMP Trap Receivers
screen” for information on how you can set up a trap receiver. The 1628 MIB group of three events only work
with that MIB, not the alternative Powernet MIB. They can be configured like any event (see “Configuring event
actions” below).
Configuring event actions
Configuring by event.
Path: Configuration > Notification > Event Actions > By Event
By default, logging an event is selected for all events. To define event actions for an individual event:
1. Select the Configuration menu, then Notification, Event Actions, and By Event.
2. To find an event, click on a column heading to see the lists under the Power Events, Environment
Events, or System Events categories.
Or you can click on a sub-category under these headings like Input Line Status or Temperature.
3. Click on the event name to view or change the current configuration, such as recipients to be notified by
e-mail, or Network Management Systems (NMSs) to be notified by SNMP traps. See “Notification
parameters”. Click on the Event Log check box to enable or disable an event log entry for this event.
If no Syslog server is configured, items related to Syslog configuration are not displayed.