IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II Setting remote alerts, Remote alert retry limit, Critical alerts

Remote alert retry limit

Use the Remote alert retry limit field to specify the number of additional times that the Remote Supervisor Adapter II will attempt to send an alert to a recipient.

Delay between entries

Use the Delay between entries field to specify the time interval (in minutes) that the Remote Supervisor Adapter II will wait before sending an alert to the next recipient in the list.

Delay between retries

Use the Delay between retries field to specify the time interval (in minutes) that the Remote Supervisor Adapter II will wait between retries to send an alert to a recipient.

3.Select the Include event log with e-mail alerts check box to attach the local event log to all e-mail alert notifications. The event log provides a summary of the most recent events and assists with problem identification and fast recovery.

Notes:

a.To send the event log as an e-mail attachment, you must select E-mail over LAN as the notification method for at least one remote alert recipient.

b.Event logs that are attached in an e-mail are not forwarded to a Remote Supervisor Adapter or Remote Supervisor Adapter II on the ASM interconnect network.

4.Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save.

Setting remote alerts

Note: For the Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine, the setting remote alerts

feature is available only when using LAN-based alert functionality.

To select the remote alerts that are to be sent, complete the following steps:

1.Log in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II where you want to set remote alerts. For more information, see Chapter 2, “Opening and using the Web interface,” on page 5.

2.In the navigation pane, click Alerts and scroll down to the Monitored Alerts area.

3.Select the events that you want the Remote Supervisor Adapter II to monitor. The remote alerts are categorized by the following levels of severity:

v Critical

vWarning

vSystem

All alerts are stored in the event log and sent to all configured remote alert recipients.

Critical alerts

Critical alerts are generated for events that signal that the server is no longer functioning. If the Select all critical alerts check box is selected, an alert can be sent for any critical alert.

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