HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor v6.0 Software Troubleshooting and FAQs Guide

Table 7 Configuring the alarm dispatch engine on the web server (continued)
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 8 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.
When Read
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.
Currently, there are no levels of alarm severity for e-mail
messages.
NOTE: You can also configure the email (SMTP) courier
settings for alarms from the HP XP P9000 Performance
Advisor GUI. For more information, see the HP XP P9000
Performance Advisor Software User Guide.
The following line is used to specify where the SMTP
server(s) are located.
A server is specified by its name followed by its port. There
can be an arbitrary amount of these pairs to try. They are
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used in the order they appear here. An even number of
space-delimited tokens are required in this string.
An example is: smtpserver.company.com 25
alternatesmtp.nonprofit.org 25
If you cannot ping it, the code cannot talk to it!
Add more pairs of servers and ports to achieve retries:
SMTP_Servers_And_Ports=server.domain1.company.com
25 server.domain2.company.com 25
server.domain3.company.com 25
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