63UPS Network Management Card 2 User’s Guide
Configuring by event. To define event actions for an individual event:
1. Select the Administration tab, Notification on the top menu bar, and by event under Event Actions
on the left navigation menu.
2. In the list of events, click on a column hea ding like Power Event or System Events to see whether the
action you want is already configured. (By default, logging is configured for all events.)
3. Click on the event name to view or change the current configuration, such as recipients to be notified
by e-mail or paging, or Network Management Systems (NMSs) to be notified by SNMP traps.
If no Syslog server is configured, items related to Syslog configuration are not displayed.
When viewing details of an event’s configuration, yo u ca n c hange the configuration, enable
or disable event logging or Syslog, or disable notification for specific e-mail recipients or
trap receivers, but you cannot add or remove recipients or receivers. To add or remove
recipients or receivers, see the following:
• “Identifying Syslog servers” on page66
• “E-mail recipients” on page64
• “Trap Receivers” on page65
Configuring by group. To configure a group of events simultaneously:
1. Select the Administration tab, Notification on the top menu bar, and by group under Event Actions
on the left navigation menu.
2. Choose how to group events for configuration:
– Choose Grouped by severity, and then select all events of one or more severity levels. You
cannot change the severity of an event.
– Choose Grouped by category, and then select all events in one or more pre-defined categories.
3. Click Next>> to move from page to page to do the following:
a. Select event actions for the group of events.
• To choose any action except Logging (the default), you must first have at least one
relevant recipient or receiver configured.
• If you choose Logging and ha ve configured a Syslog server, select Event Log or Syslog
(or both) on the next page.
b. Select whether to leave the newly configured event action enabled for this group of events or to
disable the action.
Active, Automatic, Direct NotificationE-mail notification
Overview of setup. Use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send e-mail to up to four recipients
when an event occurs.
Until condition
clears The notification is sent repeatedly until the condition clears or is resolved.
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