Configuring The Smtp Integrator To Send Sentinel Notifications; Sentinel Database - Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 02-2010 Installation Manual

 Section 3.9.5, "Configuring the Light weight Collector Manager," on page 56
Section 3.9.6, "Managing Time," on page 59
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Section 3.9.7, "Modifying Oracle dbstart and dbshut scripts," on page 59
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 Section 3.9.8, "High-Performance Configuration," on page 60
3.9.1 Configuring the SMTP Integrator to Send Sentinel
Notifications
In Sentinel 6.1, a JavaScript SendEmail action works with an SMTP integrator to send e-mail
messages from various contexts within the Sentinel interface to e-mail recipients. The recipients of
the e-mail message and the message contents are configured in the action parameters.
A single action instance of the SendEmail action plug-in is created automatically in every Sentinel
installation. This action is used internally by Sentinel to send e-mail in the following situations:
When a Correlation rule that is deployed with a Send Email action is triggered. The Send Email
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action referred to here is the action indicated by the gear icon, which is only valid for
correlation (as opposed to the JavaScript SendEmail action, which is indicated by the JS
JavaScript icon).
If the workflow includes a Mail Step or Activity that is configured to send e-mail.
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 If the user opens an incident and selects to execute an Activity that is configured to send e-mail.
If the user right-clicks an event and selects Email.
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If the user opens an incident and selects Email Incident.
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No configuration is necessary for the SendEmail action, but the SMTP Integrator must be
configured with valid connection information before it works.

3.9.2 Sentinel Database

Unless the DBA wants to manage database archiving using his or her own procedures, Sentinel
database automatic partition management (archiving, dropping, and adding partitions) should be
enabled during installation to keep event data within a controlled size. Automatic partition
management can also be configured post-installation by using the Sentinel Data Manager (SDM).
By default, the Sentinel Data Manager might not be able to write to the file system in order to
archive data. This can be enabled by editing the
NOTE: By default, the installer sets all tablespaces to autogrow. By default, the file grow size is 200
MB, but the maximum file size depends on the value provided during the installation.
To enable Oracle to write to the archive directory:
1 Log in to the database machine.
2 Navigate to the
$ORACLE_HOME/dbs
3 Open the init
<OracleSID>.ora
4 Edit the
UTL_FILE_DIR
data should be written. You should have one of the following:
 UTL_FILE_DIR = *
init<OracleSID>.ora
directory.
file in a text editor.
parameter to specify the directory path to which the archived Sentinel
file for the database.
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