HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor v5.5 Software Troubleshooting and FAQs Guide (T1789-96344, February 2013)

Table 6 Configuring the alarm dispatch engine on the web server
...%HPSS_HOME%\pa\properties\
serverparameters.properties
File
These parameters are read whenever an alarm dispatch
engine is started. An alarm dispatch engine comprises
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various threads, and it is attached to a servlet. The servlet
alarm tallies can be viewed in a web browser at:
http://<servername>/servlet/com.hp.xpsl.alarms.AlarmDis
patchServlet
This is mentioned here as a convenience and is not
supported because its purpose is for development and
debugging. The fields presented to the web browser are
used in the dispatch engine's bookkeeping, and do not
necessarily correspond to alarms that are sent to a
particular destination.
Nevertheless, it serves as a window for monitoring and
general status purposes. See the Event History window for
a more useful display. Send suggestions on how you would
like to see this feature improved to better serve your needs.
Only the first two parameters are relevant to customer-site
usage. The two default timeout values are greater than the
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normal error-sensing time that is actually necessary. These
values are used to determine how long to wait on the
dispatch courier's thread before stopping the thread. This
prevents the alarm dispatch engine from locking up on an
errant send request.
The following is the amount of time in milliseconds to wait
for an SMTP request to complete:
Email_TimeOut=30000
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The following determines if real or fake data is used for
alarms:
1 -> use database data; 0 -> use fake data
Listen_To_Database=1
The following determines how long to sleep between
sending groups of fake data:
This is active only when not listening to the database. Units
are milliseconds.
Fake_Data_Sleep=120000
The following is the email address separated by spaces:
Fake_Email_Recipients=[e-mail]
Table 7 Configuring the e-mail (SMTP) courier on the web server for alarms
...%HPSS_HOME%\pa\properties\serverparameters.propertiesFile
Each time an alarm is produced that has at least one e-mail
recipient.
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The first two fields are used to establish a connection with
the SMTP server. You must provide the SMTP server names
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that can communicate with your web server. Changing the
"from" field is advisable for readability purposes, especially
if the SMTP server checks for a valid sender. This is not to
be used to spam people. Change the subject line and the
definable message fields as desired. These areas are
especially useful for adding phrases for your particular
locale, explaining what a message means, or receiving
the message into a program that parses the main body of
the message and performs some automated processing.
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