Operation Overview; Alert Manager Setting; Alert Monitoring - NEC Express5800 series User Manual

OPERATION OVERVIEW

Alert Manager consists of the following five major functions:

Alert Manager setting

Alert monitoring

Scheduling function of alert report
Report function of alert
Receive function of alert
Alert Manager Setting
Setting tools include the following:
– Report setting function - Used for the setting for monitoring objects (event and alert),
reporting method, and reporting destination and matches the monitoring object with the
reporting destination.
– Test report function - Setting contents can be checked by the test report.
– The following two kinds of test report methods are provided and both of them can be
executed with the ease of pushing a button.
Method of checking whether the destination is correctly set by the report method.
Method of actually simulating the report to the destination related to the
monitoring alert by generating the test alert.
– Save and restore the Alert Manager setting information including base setting,
destination setting and monitor event to a file.
Alert Monitoring
– Filtering function - extracts the monitor alert under the set conditions. The conditions
indicate event source name, server name, and so forth. Conditions to be set depend on
the time of event log monitor and alert log monitor.
– Suppress function
Suppress interval can be specified.
Using the Alert Manager
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