IT Assistant Alerts

[Andreas_Fuchs at Dell.com]

You have to configure this on OS level. On Windows when you install the
SNMP sevice the system becomes automaticaly a trap receiver.
On the Managed systems you have to configure the Managamenet stations as
trap receiver on linux in the config file for the snmp daemon o windows
in the properties tab of the service. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Weaver [mailto:drew.weaver at thenap.com] 
Sent: Dienstag, 22. August 2006 20:17
To: Tom Haddon; Fuchs, Andreas
Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: RE: IT Assistant Alerts

Enquiring minds want to know :-)

-Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Tom Haddon
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 6:03 AM
To: Andreas_Fuchs at dell.com
Cc: linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: RE: IT Assistant Alerts

Hi Andreas,

Thanks. Can you explain how to configure the IT Assistant as an SNMP
trap receiver? Or are you meaning on the OS level to configure this?

Thanks, Tom

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 13:22 +0100, Andreas_Fuchs at Dell.com wrote:
> Tom
> 
> Getting allerts by polling is very slow and does also not cover
problems
> that come and go. Therefore you better configure on your server the 
> managemen station as SNMP trap receiver. This will guarante that you
get
> your email in an error case immediately.
> 
> The rest of your configurations sounds ok for me.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andreas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Tom Haddon
> Sent: Freitag, 18. August 2006 17:26
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: IT Assistant Alerts
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Can someone help me out with alerting in IT Assistant? I have my
server
> being recognised in the "Servers" group and it shows a green tick next

> to it for status. I have tested that I can receive email alerts and
then
> configured an Action Alert for all events with no specific timeframe 
> (which I take to mean it will alert at any time) on all devices in the

> "Server" group to email to me.
> 
> I have received an alert from this configuration approximately 24
hours
> ago, for a server that was reporting a status of OK. However, I wanted

> to test the failure alerting. I therefore pulled out a power cord 
> connected to a PSU, and waited for the alert email to come in.
> 
> And waited.
> 
> Nothing. After about 45 minutes I logged onto the console, figuring
that
> I had set the polling interval to 1 hour, so this was still reasonable

> to not receive the email yet. The ESM logs for this server, however, 
> were showing the error. And still no email. Is there something I
haven't
> configured correctly in the alerting? I took another look at filter
I'd
> set up, and when I went through the Edit screens, at the last one I
saw
> the list of actions that it was applied to. It was checked for the
email
> I'd set up, but not for "Alert" or "NT Event Log", which I assume are 
> generic ones included by default as I hadn't set those up. Do I need
to
> check the "Alert" one for it to send out an alert, even if I've 
> associated it with a custom Action Alert?
> 
> Many thanks, Tom
> 
> --
> Tom Haddon <tom at greenleaftech.net>
> 
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