System Reporter 2.8

3PAR System Reporter User’s Guide

7.4 Configuring Rules for Email Alerts

System Reporter can be configured to evaluate numerous rules and generate email alerts to specified recipients for each rule whose conditions are met.

7.4.1 Adding an Alert Rule

To add an alert rule:

1Point your browser at the Web server where Apache HTTP Server and the 3PAR System Reporter Web server scripts are installed.

The 3PAR System Reporter main window appears.

2Click on Policy Settings in the Extras Menu area.

The 3PAR System Reporter Policies window appears.

3Choose the Alert Rules tab.

4Click Add Alert.

5Choose the Data Table to which the rule applies from the drop-down list.

6Choose the Resolution of the samples to which the rule applies from the drop-down list. The rule will be evaluated for each sample of the chosen resolution.

7Choose the System to which the rule applies from the drop-down list. Leave this blank if you wish the rule to apply to all InServ systems.

8Choose the Metric that the rule should calculate from the down-list. The available metrics depend on the chosen Data Table and changing the Data Table will reset the selected Metric.

9Choose the Direction that the determines how the Metric is compared to the Limit Value from the drop-down list. The available values are > (greater than) and < (less than).

10Enter the Limit Value as a number. The metric is compared against this number.

11Enter the Limit Count as an integer (zero or larger). For each sample interval, an alert email will only be generated if the Metric exceeds the Limit Value (as compared by Direction) for more than Limit Count objects.

12Enter the Condition (min_read_iops, min_write_iops, min_total_iops) to indicate the type of condition that is to be monitored.

Configuring Rules for Email Alerts

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