Network Quota - Alert window

 

Use this tab define an alert that will be triggered if a user or user group violates the Quota.

Triggering Condition

Field Name

Description

Condition

Specify what condition will violate Quota by entering the quota limit value in terms of KB, MB, or GB.

 

Once this value is reached (i.e., exceeded the total size amount you specified in this section), the Quota is considered violated and the alert is triggered. When the alert is triggered, the actions you specified in the Triggered Actions section are taken.

Value

Enter a numerical value that represents the threshold for when the Quota is violated.

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, Unix Syslog (Unix)

Check this box to indicate that alerts will be recorded to the OS log.

Event Type (Windows Event Log only)

Indicate the type of event that will be recorded to the OS log.

Facility (Unix Syslog only)

Select where the Unix Syslog will be sent. You can select User or Local.

Level (Unix Syslog only)

Select the level of Unix Syslog event. You can select Informational, Notice, Warning, Error, Critical, or Alert.

Run Script

Check this box to run a script in response to this Alert.

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

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.

 

 

For more information, see Policy Management - Quotas.