User Guide

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Operation Overview
2.
AlertManager consists of the following five major functions:
1) AlertManager setting
2) Alert monitoring
3) Scheduling function of Alert Report
4) Report function of Alert
5) Receive function of Alert
2.1
AlertManager 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 test report.
- The following two kinds of test report methods are provided and both of them can be executed.
- 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 AlertManager setting information including base setting, destination setting and
monitor event to a file.
2.2
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.