Alerts, Automated Response And Logging; Set Up Auto-Response And Configure Check Conditions - Tripp Lite B092-016 Owner's Manual

Chapter 7: Alerts, Automated Response and Logging
This chapter describes the automated response, alert generation and logging features of the Console Server.
The new Auto-Response facility (in firmware V3.5.1 and later) extends on the basic Alert facility available in earlier firmware
revisions. With the new facility the Console Server monitors selected serial ports, logins, the power status and environmental
monitors and probes for Check Condition triggers. The console server will then initiate a sequence of actions in response to the
triggers. To configure, you:
• Set general parameters then select and configure the Check Conditions i.e. the conditions that will trigger the response
(Section 7.1), then
• Specify the Trigger Actions i.e. sequence of actions initiated in the event of the trigger condition, then specify the Resolve
Actions i.e. actions performed when trigger conditions have been resolved (Section 7.2)
The Console Servers can also be configured selectively to maintain log records of all access and communications with the
Console Server and with the attached serial devices, all system activity and a history of the status of any attached environmental
monitors, UPS and PDU devices. The Console Servers can also log access and communications with network attached hosts.
• If port logs are to be maintained on a remote server, then the access path to this location needs to be configured (Section 7.3)
• Then you need to activate and set the desired levels of logging for each serial (Section 7.4) and/or network port (Section
7.5) and/or power and environment devices (refer to Chapter 8)
7.1

Set Up Auto-Response and Configure Check Conditions

With the Auto-Response facility, a sequence of Trigger Actions is initiated in the event of a specified trigger condition (Check
Condition). Subsequent Resolve Actions can also be performed when the trigger condition has been resolved.
To configure, first set the general parameters that will be applied to all Auto-Responses:
• Check Log Events on Alerts & Logging: Auto-Response to enable logging all Auto-Response activities
• Check Delay after Boot to set any general delay to be applied after console server system boot, before processing events
To configure a new Auto-Response:
• Select New Auto-Response in the Configured Auto-Response field. You will be presented with a new Auto-Response
Settings menu
• Enter a unique Name for the new Auto-Response
• Specify the Reset Timeout for the time in seconds after resolution to delay before this Auto-Response can be triggered again
• Check Repeat Trigger Actions to continue to repeat trigger action sequences until the check is resolved
• Enter any required delay time before repeating trigger actions in Repeat Trigger Action Delay. This delay starts after the last
action is queued
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