Computer Alerts - Alerts window

Use the Alert tab to define an alert that will be triggered by the Computer Alert job.

Triggering Condition

Field Name

Description

Condition

Select the condition upon which an alert will be triggered and a notification will be sent.

Depending on each condition, you can choose to run a script in response to the alert.

Value

Enter a numerical value that represents the threshold for when the alert will be triggered.

Value Units

Select the unit of measurement for the value you entered in the Value field. The valid choices are: Kilobytes, Megabytes, and Gigabytes.

Triggered Actions

Field Name

Description

SNMP Trap

Check this box to generate an SNMP trap message to any NMS, console or terminal to indicate the occurrence of an alert.

TEC Event

Check this box to send the alert to the Tivoli Event Console (TEC). The TEC administrator can write correlation and automation rules to analyze IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager events and perform responses such as send further notification, create or update trouble tickets, run programs, and so forth.

Login Notification

Check this box to indicate that alerts should appear to the specified user upon logging in to the system.

Login ID

Indicate the ID of the user who will receive alert notifications upon logging in to the system.

Windows Event Log

Check this box to indicate that alerts will be recorded to the Windows Event Log.

Event Type

Indicate the type of event that will be recorded to the Windows Event Log.

Run Script

Check this box to run a script in response to the triggering condition for the Alert.

Press Define. The Specify Script dialog box appears, enabling you to specify a script to run and the computer on which to run.

Refer below for a list of scripts you can define for each triggering condition.

Email

Check this box to indicate that alert notifications will be sent via email to the specified email addresses. When you check this box, the following fields become active.

Email Recipients

Use this section to view, add, and delete email addresses for the alert notification. Use the top box in the section to enter the email addresses you want to include for the alert notification. The bottom box displays the email addresses already associated with the alert notification.

Add

Click this button to add an email address you enter in the Email Recipients field.

Del

Click this button to delete the email address you highlight in the Email Recipients list box.

Edit Email

Click this button to edit the text of the email alert notification on the Edit Text of the Email Message. See the Edit Text of the Email Message topic for information about this window.

Note: The IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager agent checks to find out whether it is running in an MSCS cluster at the following times:

If the Microsoft Cluster service is started after the IBM Tivoli Storage Resource Manager agent, the agent will not be aware of the cluster, and any virtual server alerts you have defined cannot be triggered. This will occur until a manual or scheduled probe is run on one of the cluster nodes.

Specify Scripts for Triggering Condition:

RAM Increase

RAM Decrease

Memory Increase

Memory Decrease

New Disk Detected

Disk Not Found

Disk Defect

Disk Defect Quota

Disk Failure Predicted

New Filesystem

Virtual Server Added

Virtual Server Moved

Virtual Server Removed

 

For more information, see Alerting - Computer Alerts.