Instruction Manual
emailed to a nominated email address, or the SNMP or Nagios server is notified. The data stream from nominated serial ports can be monitored for matched patterns or flow control status changes can be configured to trigger alerts. As can user connections to serial ports and Hosts, or power events.
1.Select Alerts & Logging: Alerts which will display all the alerts currently configured. Click Add Alert.
2.At Add a New Alert enter a Description for the alert or trigger condition.
3.Select the email address for the Email Recipient who will be notified of the alert, and/or activate SNMP notification for this event.
4.Select the Applicable Ports (serial) and/or Hosts and/or UPS that is (are) to be monitored for this alert trigger
In a MetaConnect Nagios centrally managed environment, you can check the Nagios alert option. On the trigger condition (for matched patterns, lo- gins, power events and signal changes) an NSCA check “warning” result will be sent to the central Nagios server. This condition is displayed on the Nagios status screen and triggers a notification, which can cause the Nagios central server itself to send out an email or an SMS, page, etc
Next, you must select the Alert Type (Connection, Signal, Pattern Match or Power) that is to be monitored. Also you can configure a selection of different Alert types and any number of specific Alert triggers for each serial port
Connection Alert: This alert will be triggered when a user connects or
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