Brocade Communications Systems IP250 Event notification, Restrictions, Supported IP address types

37 Event notification

Restrictions

The following items affect Fault Management operation.

Supported IP address types

The Management application receives traps and syslog messages for physical IP addresses only.

Event Purging

The default maximum number of days that historical events are stored is 365. You can select a different default (from 1 to 365 ) in the Options dialog box under Event Storage.

Event Archiving

The default number of days that purged events are archived is 30. This value cannot be changed.

Event notification

The Management application records the SAN and IP events in the Master Log. You can configure the application to send event notifications to e-mail addresses at certain time intervals. This is a convenient way to keep track of events that occur on the SAN and IP networks. You can also configure products to “call home” for certain events, notifying the service center of product problems. For instructions about configuring call home for events, refer to “Call Home” on

page 343.

Configuring e-mail notification

To send e-mail notification of events to users, complete the following steps.

1.Select Monitor > Event Notification > E-mail.

The E-mail Event Notification Setup dialog box (shown in Figure 467) displays.

FIGURE 467 E-mail Event Notification Setup dialog box

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