User's Guide

Alert Manager Setting

Setting tools include the following:

– Report setting function - Used for the setting for monitoring objects (event and alert), reporting method,

and reporting destination and matches the monitoring object with the reporting destination.

– Test report function - Setting contents can be checked by the test report.

– The following two kinds of test report methods are provided and both of them can be executed with the

ease of pushing a button.

- Method of checking whether the destination is correctly set by the report method.

- Method of actually simulating the report to the destination related to the monitoring alert by

generating the test alert.

– Save and restore the Alert Manager setting information including base setting, destination setting and

monitor event to a file.

Alert Monitoring

– Filtering function - extracts the monitor alert under the set conditions. The conditions indicate event

source name, server name, and so forth. Conditions to be set depend on the time of event log monitor and

alert log monitor.

– Suppress function

Suppress interval can be specified.

Scheduling Function of Alert Report

2.3.1

– Report scheduling function:

Reportable time periods can be specified.

– Retry function:

If reporting fails, retry of reporting is done. Retry is specified for each reporting destination with the retry

interval and maximum retry time.

Report Function of Alert

2.3.2

– Manager report(SNMP, TCP/IP) function:

This function reports the alert using the SNMP or TCP/IP function.

Report contents include a detailed message, support method, and alert type.

A report can be issued to the manager under the LAN environment (In-Band report) as well as under the

WAN environment (Out-of-Band report) using a Remote Access Service.

This function is only available for the Agent.