Adding an Alert Notification Delivery Method
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Enter a and .
Select the delivery method for the alert. Choose from:
Email - Enter a valid email address. This can be a comma-separated list of email addresses. One email is sent for entire report.
SNMP Trap - When you check this box choose V2 or V3. Entry fields change based on your selection.
For V2, enter the Port, Community, and Management Servers. One alert will be sent for each row.
For V3, enter the Server, Port, Security Name and select a Security Level
SNMP Trap V2 Field Descriptions
SNMP Trap V3 Field Descriptions
Server: Enter the IP address of the server which will be used to receive trap.
Server: Enter the IP address of the server which will be used to receive trap.
Port: Port on which SNMP server is running.
Port: Port on which SNMP server is running.
Community: A type of shared password between the portal and the SNMP server, which is used to authenticate the portal.
SNMP Engine ID - The Engine ID is used by SNMPv3 entities to uniquely identify them.
Security Name: A unique name and similar to username for authentication. This Security Name is used during the creation of users in the SNMP server:
For example: if the Security Name is "demo_user", use following command to create a user:
createUser -e 0x8000137001a9fe97108f0f4f2f demo_user MD5 demo_password DES demo_password
where:
0x8000137001a9fe97108f0f4f2f = engineId demo_user = security name
Security Level:
None
Authentication: Provide authentication protocol and authentication passphrase
Authentication & Privacy: Provide authentication protocol, authentication passphrase and privacy protocol and privacy Passphrase.
Execute Script - The user-created script must reside in: /opt/aptare/portal/user_script. Check the box and enter a shell script name (Linux). If a path name is included, it will be appended to the above path. For example, when the alert is triggered.
Syslog - Select this and then attach a Syslog configuration from the list that must perform the alert notification. The list is populated provided a configuration is added under Syslog Configuration for the domain.
Optionally, click to trigger the action and validate the delivery.
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