Installing and Using Monitors

Adding a Monitoring Request

Table 2-14

Monitoring Requests Configuration Settings (Continued)

 

 

 

Setting

Description

 

 

 

 

Notification

The following notification methods are available.

 

Method

EMAIL* - sends notification to the specified email address

 

 

 

 

TEXTLOG* - sends notification to specified file

 

 

SNMP - sends notification using SNMP traps

 

 

CONSOLE - sends notification to the system console

 

 

TCP - sends notification to the specified target host and port

 

 

UDP - sends notification to the specified target host and port

 

 

OPC - sends notification to OpenView ITO applications (available

 

 

only on systems with OpenView installed).

 

 

SYSLOG - sends notification to the system log

 

 

Only one notification method can be selected for each monitor

 

 

request, consequently you will need to create multiple requests to

 

 

direct event notification to different targets. * These are the only

 

 

methods that deliver the entire content of the event message. The

 

 

remaining methods alert you to the occurrence of an event, but

 

 

require you to retrieve the complete message content using resdata

 

 

explained later in this chapter.

 

 

 

 

Table 2-15

Event Severity Levels

 

 

 

 

Event

 

 

Severity

 

MC/ServiceGuard

Level

Description

Response

 

 

 

Critical

An event that will or has already

If MC/ServiceGuard is

 

caused data loss, system down time,

installed and this is a

 

or other loss of service. System

critical component, a

 

operation will be impacted and

package fail-over WILL

 

normal use of the hardware should

occur.

 

not continue until the problem is

 

 

corrected. Immediate action is

 

 

required to correct the problem.

 

 

 

 

Serious

An event that may cause data loss,

If MC/ServiceGuard is

 

system down time, or other loss of

installed and this is a

 

service if left uncorrected. System

critical component, a

 

operation and normal use of the

package fail-over WILL

 

hardware may be impacted. The

occur.

 

problem should be repaired as soon as

 

 

possible.

 

 

 

 

Major

An event that could escalate to a

If MC/ServiceGuard is

Warning

Serious condition if not corrected.

installed and this is a

 

System operation should not be

critical component, a

 

impacted and normal use of the

package fail-over WILL

 

hardware can continue. The problem

NOT occur.

 

should be repaired at a convenient

 

 

time.

 

 

 

 

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