IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II manual Forwarding alerts

For example, to log in to the IBM Global Network®, the PPP login ID is in the following format: secureip.y.z where y is your account name and z is your user ID.

11.In the PPP password field, type the password that is used to log in to the ISP.

This field is required only for E-mail over PPP and SNMP over PPP notification methods.

12.Click Save to save your remote alert recipient profile. Repeat step 2 on page 23 through step 24 for each remote alert recipient profile.

13.Click Generate Test Alert on the Remote Alert Recipients page to send a test alert to all configured remote alert recipients.

Note: All selected alert events are sent to all configured remote alert recipients.

Forwarding alerts

Note: For the Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine, the forwarding alerts feature is not available.

The Alert Forwarding setting applies only to alerts that are forwarded from integrated system management processors (ISMPs) on an ASM interconnect network. The ISMPs on the network forward alerts only to the Remote Supervisor Adapter or Remote Supervisor Adapter II that is designated as the gateway. The gateway adapter then forwards the alerts through an Ethernet connection on the network to the alert recipients. A Remote Supervisor Adapter II is a gateway to the interconnect network if one of the following circumstances is true:

vOn the Alerts Forwarding page, you click Make this ASM the Gateway.

vThe Remote Supervisor Adapters and Remote Supervisor Adapter IIs on the network negotiate and designate the adapter to be the gateway. This occurs if you do not configure one of the Remote Supervisor Adapters or Remote Supervisor Adapter IIs on the network to be the gateway.

Notes:

1.There must be at least one Remote Supervisor Adapter or Remote Supervisor Adapter II on the interconnect network for ISMP alerts to be forwarded. At any time, only one Remote Supervisor Adapter or Remote Supervisor Adapter II can be the gateway on an interconnect network.

2.When Remote Supervisor Adapters and Remote Supervisor Adapter IIs are on the interconnect network, a Remote Supervisor Adapter II should be configured as the gateway.

3.When a user configures a Remote Supervisor Adapter or Remote Supervisor Adapter II to be the gateway, any existing gateway (user-defined or negotiated) ceases to be the gateway.

4.The remote alert recipients and monitored alerts for the ISMPs on the interconnect network must be configured on the gateway Remote Supervisor Adapter or Remote Supervisor Adapter II; otherwise, the alerts will not be forwarded.

5.In the event of a gateway adapter failure, a new gateway is automatically negotiated. To enable alerts to be forwarded by the negotiated gateway, you must also configure the remote alert recipients and monitored alerts on Remote Supervisor Adapters and Remote Supervisor Adapter IIs that are potential gateways.

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