HP P9000 Replication Manager Software 7.2 User Guide

17 Managing alerts
This chapter describes tasks for alert management.
About alert management
Replication Manager can send an alert when a monitored target, such as a copy pair or buffer,
satisfies a preset condition. The conditions that can be set include: thresholds for copy pair statuses,
performance information, and copy license usage. You can specify a maximum of 1,000 conditions.
Alert notification is useful for enabling a quick response to a hardware failure or for determining the
cause of a degradation in transfer performance. Alert notifications are also useful for preventing
errors due to buffer overflow and insufficient copy licenses. Because you can receive alerts by email
or SNMP traps, you can also monitor the replication environment while you are logged out of
Replication Manager.
Related topics
• About alert settings, page 127
• Explorer menu items for alert management, page 324
Alert management functions
The following table shows the alert management functions, user permissions (Replication Manager
management), and whether the functions can be used with the indicated permissions.
Permissions
Function
ViewModifyAdmin
YYYViewing a list of alerts and alert settings
NYYMarking alerts as completed*
NYYAdding alert settings
NYYChanging alert settings
NYYDeleting alert settings
NYYTesting alert settings
NYYEnabling or disabling alert settings
Legend:
Y: Can be used with this permission.
N: Cannot be used with this permission.
*: Only present when the alert automarking feature has been disabled.
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