Alerts; About Alerts - HPE XP7 User Manual

Alerts

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• Configure alarms
• Set threshold level
• Enable or disable alarms
• Filter records based on metrics and alarm
status
• Delete alarm records
• Configure alarm notifications
• Establish scripts for alarms

About Alerts

PA enables you to activate alarms on components, so that timely notifications can be dispatched to
intended recipients when the performance of components rise beyond a particular limit. The performance
values of components are verified against threshold limits that you set. PA also maintains history of
alarms for components from the time alarms are activated on components. It monitors performance and
logs new records whenever the performance of components rise beyond or drop below the set threshold
limits. This activity continues till the associated alarms are disabled or the corresponding component
records deleted. You can also view performance graphs for components on which alarms are generated.
If you are monitoring the ThP pool utilization and have activated alarm notifications for the same, you can
also forecast the date and time when the utilization exceeds the next threshold limit.
About configuring alarm notifications
Alarms are triggered and notifications sent to selected users, when the current performance value of a
component crosses the set threshold level, which is also configured as the dispatch at threshold level. PA
provides two destinations that you can configure for receiving alarms notifications - email destination and
SNMP destination.
If you have specified a SNMP recipient for alarms, you must provide the IP address or system name of
the SNMP server. The server receive the notifications in the form of traps that it forwards to the intended
recipient. For more information, see Configure SNMP settings.
If you have specified an email recipient address for alarms, PA identifies the difference between entering
and exiting the dispatch at threshold level within the text, in the subject line of the email. If the alarm is
entering the dispatch at threshold level, PA identifies the alarm as a normal alarm and populates the
subject line of the email with XP7 Alarm. If the alarm is exiting the dispatch at threshold level, PA
identifies the alarm as a recovery alarm and populates the subject line of the email with XP7 Alarm -
Good Information Alarm. You can specify a common destination email address on the PA Settings screen,
which is used for receiving all alarm email notifications. The destination email address is then
automatically displayed in Email Destination in the Settings pane in the Alerts screen. For more
information on specifying common recipient email addresses for all alarm notifications, see Configure
alarm email settings and Configure SNMP settings.
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