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3. When you start OSM server processes, configuration settings are read from the OSMCONF
file if one exists in that location. If not, OSM default settings are used. To change your settings
after OSM is running, select Reload Configuration Settings from the OSM Service Connection
Tools menu. To complete this operation, you are instructed to restart the $ZOSM and $ZOEV
processes.
If you are already using a customized OSMCONF, and an updated OSMINI template (with new
settings that you want to take advantage of) is released, you can either:
• Copy those particular settings (such as the setting for “Enabling Enhanced Redundant Power
Scrub”) into your existing OSMCONF file, and customize as needed; or
• Use the OSMINI to create a new OSMCONF (in which case you would then have to redo
any changes you made to default settings in your previous OSMCONF).
To take advantage of new functionality that is enabled by default (such as Creation of System
Inventory Files), you do not have to add those settings to your OSMCONF file; OSM uses default
settings unless you override them in an OSMCONF file.
Specifying Alternate Collector for OSM Event Viewer
In the OSM Event Viewer, $ALOG is the default name for the alternate collector when using the
Save View as EMS Log action. However, if oevprvd is idle for 20 minutes and times out, its
processes, including $ALOG, are terminated. With OSM version T0682 H02 ABZ and later, you
can prevent this by specifying a different process name to be used by oevprvd through the
AltEventCollectorProcessName parameter in your OSMCONF file, as follows:
AltEventCollectorProcessName = $alt_name
Where $alt_name is the process name that oevprvd will use.
This allows you to use $ALOG as your own collector process name.
Disabling Alarm Remote Notification (Dial-out)
You can disable all dial-outs using a specific OSMCONF flag. You can also specify alarms that
should not be disabled from dialing out. By default, the alarm dial-out disabling is disabled.
NOTE: Some alarms will always be dialed out. For example, the Denial of Service Attack
alarm will always be dialed out.
You can disable alarm dial-out by adding disableAllDialout = YES in the OSMCONF file
and then run the Reload Configuration Settings or restart CIMOM.
To disable alarm dial-out, use the following flags:
DescriptionConfiguration Flag and Value
Disables all alarm dial-outs unless the specified alarm is indicated in the
enableDialout or enableDialoutPrefix flag.
disableAllDialout = YES
Enables the dial-out of the specified alarm if disableAllDialout = YES and
the alarm description is the same as <alarm description>.
enableDialout = <alarm
description>
Enables the dial-out of an alarm with the specified prefix if disableAllDialout
= YES and the alarm’s description starts with <alarm description prefix>.
enableDialoutPrefix =
<alarm description
prefix>
Example: Disabling all Alarm Dial-outs
To disable all alarm dial-outs, add the following line in the OSMCONF file:
disableAllDialout = YES
This will disable all alarm dial-outs except for a few alarms that are always dialed out.
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