Alarm Events; E-Mail Messages - Meinberg LANTIME/GPS Operating Instructions Manual

Alarm events

On this page you can set up different notification types for a number of events. This
is an important feature because of the nature of a timeserver: running unobserved in
the background. If an error or problem occurs, the timeserver is able to notify an
administrator by using a number of different notification types.
The LANTIME timeserver offers different ways of informing the administrator or a
responsible person about nine different events: EMAIL sends an e-mail message to a
specified e-mail account, SNMP-TRAP sends a SNMP trap to one or two SNMP trap
receivers, WINDOWS POPUP MESSAGE sends a winpopup message to one or two
different computers. DISPLAY shows the alarm message on a wall mount display
model VP100/NET, which is an optional accessory you can obtain for your
LANTIME. You also can use user defined scripts and the error relay out (see
appendix).
"Normal Operation"
"NTP not sync"
"NTP stopped"
"Server boot"
"Receiver not responding"
"Receiver not sync"
"Antenna faulty"
"Antenna reconnect"
"Antenna short circuit"
"Config changed"
„Leap second announced"
"NTP client offset limit"
Every event can use a combination of those four notification types, of course you can
disable notification for an event (by just disabling all notification types for this event).
The configuration of the four notification types can be changed in the upper section of
the page, you can control which notification is used for which event in the lower part
of the page.

E-mail messages

You can specify the e-mail address which is used as the senders address of the
notification e-mail (From: address), the e-mail address of the receiver (To: address)
and a SMTP smarthost, that is a mail server forwarding your mail to the receiver's
mail server. If your LANTIME system is connected to the internet, it can deliver
those e-mails itself by directly connecting to the receivers mail server. Additional e-
mail addresses can be specified via the CC-recipients button.
These settings cannot be altered with the LC display buttons of the front panel. Please
note the following:
- The host name and domain name should be known to the SMTP
smarthost
- A valid nameserver entry is needed
- The domain part of the "From:" address has to be valid
NTP and reference clock in normal operation
NTP is not synchronised to a reference time source
NTP has been stopped (mostly very large time offsets)
System has been restarted
No contact to the internal GPS receiver
Internal GPS clock is not synchronised to GPS time
GPS antenna disconnected
GPS antenna reconnected
GPS detects antenna short circuit"
Configuration was changed by a user
A leap second has been announced
Client management detects an error
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