Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor

You can enable or disable the event monitor at any time.

Disable the event monitor if you do not want the system to send alert notifications. If you are running the event monitor on multiple systems, disabling the event monitor on all but one system prevents the sending of duplicate messages.

NOTE: It is recommended that you configure the event monitor to start by default on a management station that runs 24 hours a day.

Windows

To enable or disable the event monitor:

1Click Start→ Administrative Tools→ Services. or

Click Start→ Settings→ Control Panel→ Administrative Tools→ Services.

2From the list of services, select Modular Disk Storage Manager Event Monitor.

3Select Action→ Properties.

4To enable the event monitor, in the Service Status area, click Start.

5To disable the event monitor, in the Service Status area, click Stop.

Linux

To enable the event monitor, at the command prompt, type SMmonitor start and press <Enter>. When the program startup begins, the system displays the following message:

SMmonitor started.

To disable the event monitor, start terminal emulation application (console ox xterm) and at the command prompt, type SMmonitor stop and press <Enter>. When the program shutdown is complete, the following message is displayed:

Stopping Monitor process.

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