HP StorageWorks XP Command View Advanced Edition Software 6.4 Server Administrator Guide for Device Manager and Provisioning Manager (web) (T1780-96341, July 2010)

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Setting up logs and alerts
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The following shows the settings of the default mail-alert-detection.txt file:
Subject:[DVM] Alert Notification
The following alert occurred.
MessageID: ${messageID}
Alert Type: ${alertType}
Source: ${source}
Status: ${status}
Component: ${component}
Description: ${description}
Recommended Action: ${recommendedAction}
Additional Info: ${additionalInfo}
Occurrence Time: ${occurrenceTime}
This message was sent automatically by the Device Manager server.
The mail-alert-detection.txt file consists of a header (by default, Subject:[DVM] Alert
Notification) and the body of the email.
You can specify parameters for the header and body of the email. When the email is sent, the
specified parameters will be replaced with the alert information collected by the Device Manager
server. The following table shows the specifiable parameters:
Table 6-10 Parameters you can set in the template file
Parameter name Description
messageID Alert ID
alertType Alert type
source Storage subsystem name
status Severity of the alert
component Location of the storage subsystem where the alert occurred
description Description of the problem
recommendedAction Action that has to be taken for the problem
additionalInfo Supplementary information
occurrenceTime Time at which the Device Manager server obtained alert information
Display format: yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss
hh is displayed by using 24-hour display.
Specify the mail-alert-detection.txt file so that all of the conditions below are satisfied. If at
least one condition is not satisfied, the Device Manager server will create an email by using the
default settings instead of using the settings of the template file that you edited.
The file name is mail-alert-detection.txt.
The file is stored in the same location as when the Device Manager server was installed.
The file size is no more than 64 KB.
Unicode (UTF-8) can be used as the character encoding.
Each line of the template file is no more than 1024 bytes in length, excluding the line feed
character.