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DEFINITY Performance Management User Guide, Release 2.0, 585-229-808
3 NMS Alerts
NMS alert Notification Methods
Issue 1
November 1998
Page 71
NMS alert Notification Methods
Introduction The Performance Management installation process allows you to install a script
that forwards alert information to a pager or to email. You can also install add-on
software such as TelAlert or Remedy that provide additional methods for notifying
you when alerts occur.
Alert
Notification
Options
The following methods for receiving alert notification are available to you through
the NMS:
Table 9. NMS alert Notification Methods
Software Notification
Type
Description
Performance
Management
CU Pager Pages the system administrator and sends a code that
identifies the alert.
Performance
Management
email Sends an email message to the system administrator that
contains pertinent alert information.
TelAlert Alpha Page Pages the system administrator and sends a code that
identifies the alarm or error type.
The alpha page also confirms when the system
administrator received the page. The page repeats until
the system administrator responds to the page.
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