System information

service. See also the description of the severity subject in 2.1.1.12, “Alert
Manager” on page 30.
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Drive
Here you type in the logical drive ID of your drive where the monitored file is
located.
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File and Directory
These are definition areas that make the definition of the file and path for the
file that has to be monitored, easier.
If these definitions have been completed, don′t forget to select the Monitor
button, otherwise the monitoring has been defined, but is not active.
2.1.1.12 Alert Manager
Figure 41. Alert Manager Service
The Alert Manager enables you to create and react to alerts, which are being
created by different originators. A huge variety of actions can be taken due to
the occurrence of an alert. These actions are all user-defined. The following are
the possible actions that can be defined by the Alert Manager. See also
Figure 42 on page 31 for an example of these actions.
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Log an alert in a log file.
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Notify users with a pop-up window.
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Execute a command.
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Forward an alert to FFST/2.
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Forward an SNMP alert.
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Activate a numeric or alphanumeric pager.
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Forward an alert to a specific workstation via a specific protocol.
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Play a waveform.
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Set and remove user-defined error conditions.
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Send out an alert as mail (cc&MAIL or Lotus Notes Mail) to a specified
workstation. This requires VIM (Vendor Independent Mail) support.
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Export of an alert to a database. (See the database section of this redbook
for details of the different databases.)
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Print an alert.
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