User`s guide

Notifications, Alarms, and Data Buffering
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AlterPath OnSite Administrator’s and User’s Guide
notifications can be configured to be sent to an OnSite administrator by one of
the following methods:
•SNMP trap
• Pager
•Email
syslog-ng allows administrators to set up alarm triggers to filter messages
based on the messages’ facility, level, or contents.
Alarm triggers must be specified in the following format:
Supported operators are “and,” “or,” and “not.”
The following line shows the syntax for a match function.
The following line shows the syntax for two match functions connected by the
not operator:
The following example shows the two match functions filtering for logins and
excluding messages that have the user name francisco; the functions are
connected by the not operator:
For more information, see syslog-ng v1.6 reference manual at http://
www.balabit.com/products/syslog-ng/reference-1.6/
syslog-ng.html.
See the following sections for how administrative users can configure
notifications and alarms and email:
• “An administrative user can use this screen to enable notifications about
system crashes or other events of interest that occur on the device that is
connected to the serial port. Data buffering must be enabled. The
function(“one_or_more_criteria_connected_by_operators”);
match(“regular_expression_matching_a_text_string”);
match(“regular_ expression”) and not match(“regular_
expression”);
match(“[Ll]ogin”) and not match(“francisco”);