Users Guide

Option Description
Notify by Alerts Select this option if you want alerts to appear as pop-up windows located at the bottom right side of
the Core Console.
Notify by SNMP
trap
The Rapid Recovery Core serves as an SNMP agent, sending traps (notifications about specific
events) to an SNMP manager. The result is the reporting of Core information such as alerts,
repository status, and protected machines. Select this option if you want to notify Core events by
SNMP trap. You must also specify a trap number. For example, the default trap number used by the
Rapid Recovery Core is 162.
8. Click OK.
You will see a message indicating that the notification group name you defined cannot be changed after creating the group.
Other properties within the notification group can be changed at any time.
● If you are satisfied with the group name, confirm this message and save your work.
● If you want to change the group name, click No to return to the Create Notification Group window, update the group
name and any other notification group settings, and save your work.
The notification group appears in the summary table. You can create different notification groups using any set of
parameters.
About configuring repetition reduction
The ability for administrators to receive alerts upon certain events is critical. Nonetheless, in certain circumstances, receiving
repeated notification of events that you are aware of can also be frustrating or inconvenient. Even if an alert is generated due to
an environmental failure that you wish to know about immediately, it is possible for the same error condition to generate
hundreds or thousands of events in the event log. To reduce repetition in the event log, and reduce the inconvenience of
receiving repeated e-mail notifications for the same event in the Core Console, Rapid Recovery includes a repetition reduction
setting, which is enabled by default and set at 5 minutes. This setting can be set as low as 1 minute and as high as 60 minutes. It
can also be disabled entirely.
When repetition reduction is disabled, then every time an event of the same type and scope occurs, it is logged in the database.
Regardless of how much time passed since that event previously occurred, each new occurrence is shown in the Alerts portion
of the Events tab.
When repetition reduction is enabled (for example, with the default time of 5 minutes), then the first time that specific event
occurs, it is logged in the events database and shown in the alerts log. If subsequently an event of the same type and scope is
again logged within the threshold of time established, then the count for the event in the database increases by 1 for each
repeat occurrence within that threshold. The log shows in the Alerts portion of the Events page. However, it displays the event
only once, with the date and time of the most recent occurrence. The events log is not updated with the same event until the
threshold of time from the first occurrence expires. For example, if set for 5 minutes and the event occurs again 6 minutes later,
it appears in the log and you receive another email message.
Configuring repetition reduction
Complete the steps in this procedure to configure repetition reduction for events.
1. Navigate to the Rapid Recovery Core Console. From the icon bar, click
(More), and then select Notifications.
The Notifications page appears.
2. In the Repetition Reduction pane, view the existing settings.
3. To enable, disable, or change the stored events threshold time, click Change.
The Edit Repetition Reduction dialog box appears
4. Do one of the following:
● To disable repetition reduction, clear the Enable Repetition Reduction option.
● To enable repetition reduction, select the Enable Repetition Reduction option.
● To change the time threshold (in minutes) for which repeated identical events are ignored, in the __ minute(s) text box,
enter a number between 1 and 60.
NOTE: The Enable Repetition Reduction option must be selected in order to change this value.
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