About alerts and rules
Data center administrators need to manage the condition of the resources in the data center. Administrators typically define the custom rules that specify what conditions generate an alert, what actions should occur if an alert is detected, and which actions generate which type of alert severity. Using the Management Server console, you can create and maintain rules pertaining to alerts.
You can monitor the faulty status and performance information of your data center by reviewing the alert log on the Management Server console.
You can view the following information on alerts in the data center:
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Information about the alert.
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The source of the alert.
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The time when the alert occurred.
The alert severity levels are:
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Critical
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Warning
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You can create alert rules to receive warnings about events and conditions, such as stopped replication or storage capacity, enabled or disabled I/O paths, faulted clusters and so on.
Using the Management Server console, you can specify to initiate one of the following actions when an alert condition is met:
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Send an email message. For some alert conditions, operators may want to send emails notifying key personnel about the condition. You can specify one or more email addresses to which the alert notification is sent.Note: You must provide the details for the SMTP settings before setting the email notification for an alert.
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Send an SNMP trap notification. Some objects are not polled. When events take place, these objects send traps or unsolicited asynchronous SNMP messages to the Server. Some of the rules that InfoScale Operations Manager uses to monitor objects in the environment rely on SNMP trap-based messages.Note: You must configure SNMP trap settings for receiving alert notifications.
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Run a custom script. You can upload a custom script that runs when the alert conditions that are specified by the rule occur.
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