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Chapter 12 Managing Alarms

Configuring System Alarm Settings

Configuring System Alarm Settings

System alarms are used to notify users of:

•Errors that are encountered by the Monitoring and Reporting services

•Information on data purging

Use this page to enable system alarms and to specify where alarm notifications are sent. When you enable system alarms, they are sent to the Alarms Inbox. In addition, you can choose to send alarm notifications through e-mail to select recipients and as syslog messages to the destinations specified as alarm syslog targets.

From the Monitoring & Report Viewer, choose Monitoring Configuration > System Configuration > System Alarm Settings.

Table 12-26 System Alarm Settings Page

Option

Description

System Alarm Settings

Notify System Alarms	Check this check box to enable system alarm notification.
System Alarms Suppress	Use the drop-down list box to designate the number of hours that you want to suppress
Duplicates	duplicate system alarms from being sent to the Email Notification User List. Valid options
	are 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24.
Email Notification
Email Notification User List	Enter a comma-separated list of e-mail addresses or ACS administrator names or both. Do
	one of the following:
	• Enter the e-mail addresses.
	• Click Select to enter valid ACS administrator names. The associated administrator is
	notified by e-mail only if there is an e-mail identification specified in the administrator
	configuration. See Creating, Duplicating, Editing, and Deleting Administrator Accounts,
	page 16-6for more information.
	When a system alarm occurs, an e-mail is sent to all the recipients in the Email Notification
	User List.
	Click Clear to clear this field.
Email in HTML Format	Check this check box to send e-mail notifications in HTML format. Uncheck this check box
	to send e-mail notifications as plain text.
Syslog Notification

Send Syslog Message

Check this check box to send a syslog message for each system alarm that ACS generates.

For ACS to send syslog messages successfully, you must configure Alarm Syslog Targets, which are syslog message destinations. Understanding Alarm Syslog Targets, page 12-35for more information.

This section contains the following topics:

•Creating and Editing Alarm Syslog Targets, page 12-35

•Deleting Alarm Syslog Targets, page 12-36

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