Configuring Event Sets, 14-4 | Cisco Systems OL-10041-01 guide

Chapter 14 Using Notifications

Configuring Event Sets

Syslog Notifications

Operations Manager generates syslog messages that can be forwarded to syslog daemons on remote systems.

Note Syslog messages cannot exceed 1024 bytes. If the syslog message exceeds this limit, it will be truncated to 1024 bytes.

Which Systems and Users Can I Notify?

When you configure a notification group, you must specify recipients for each type of notification:

•SNMP trap—Send SNMP traps to a port number on which the host can receive traps. Operations Manager defaults to sending SNMP traps to the port 162. However, you can specify a different port.

•E-Mail—Send e-mail to one or more addresses.

•Syslog—Send syslog messages to a remote system on which the syslog daemon is configured to listen on a specified port. Operations Manager defaults to sending syslog messages to port 514. However, you can specify a different port.

How Can I Limit Notifications to Those for Specific Events?

In some cases, you might want to send notifications for only a subset of the events that Operations Manager monitors. You can set the events that are of interest to you when you define the notification criterion:

•Specify an event set for a device-based notification criterion. You can create as many events sets as you would like.

•Select the events that you want Operations Manager to monitor for Service Quality-based notification criteria. There are few Service Quality-based events and you can select among them when you add or edit Service Quality-based notification criteria.