Administration: Notification

Event Actions

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Types of notification

You can configure event actions to occur in response to an event or group of events. These actions notify users of the event in any of several ways:

•Active, automatic notification. The specified users or monitoring devices are contacted directly.

–E-mail notification

–SNMP traps

–APC Remote Monitoring Service

–Syslog notification

•Indirect notification

–Event log. If no direct notification is configured, users must check the log to determine which events have occurred

You can also log system performance data to use for device monitoring. See “Data log” on page 52 for information on how to configure and use this data logging option.

–Queries (SNMP GETs)

For more information, see “SNMP” on page 65. SNMP enables an NMS to perform informational queries. For SNMPv1, which does not encrypt data before transmission, configuring the most restrictive SNMP access type (READ) enables informational queries without the risk of allowing remote configuration changes.

Configuring event actions

Notification parameters. For events that have an associated clearing event, you can also set the following parameters as you configure events individually or by group, as described in the next two sections. To access the parameters, click the receiver or recipient name.

Parameter

Description

 

 

Delay x time before

If the event persists for the specified time, a notification is sent. If the condition clears

sending

before the time expires, no notification is sent.

 

 

Repeat at an interval

The notification is sent at the specified interval (e.g., every 2 minutes).

of x time

 

 

 

Up to x times

During an active event, the notification repeats for this number of times.

 

 

Until condition

The notification is sent repeatedly until the condition clears or is resolved.

clears

 

 

 

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