HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.4 Troubleshooting and FAQs Guide (T1789-96336, April 2012)

These parameters are read whenever an alarm dispatch engine is started. An alarm dispatch
engine comprises various threads, and it is attached to a servlet. The servlet alarm tallies can be
viewed in a web browser at:
http://<servername>/servlet/com.hp.xpsl.alarms.AlarmDis patchServlet
This is mentioned here as a convenience and is not supported because its purpose is for
development and debugging. The fields presented to the web browser are used in the dispatch
engine's bookkeeping, and do not necessarily correspond to alarms that are sent to a particular
destination.
Nevertheless, it serves as a window for monitoring and general status purposes. See the Event
History window for a more useful display. Send suggestions on how you would like to see this
feature improved to better serve your needs.
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Only the first two parameters are relevant to customer-site usage. The two default timeout values
are greater than the normal error-sensing time that is actually necessary. These values are used
to determine how long to wait on the dispatch courier's thread before stopping the thread. This
prevents the alarm dispatch engine from locking up on an errant send request.
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The following is the amount of time in milliseconds to wait for an SMTP request to complete:
Email_TimeOut=30000
The following determines if real or fake data is used for alarms:
1 -> use database data; 0 -> use fake data
Listen_To_Database=1
The following determines how long to sleep between sending groups of fake data:
This is active only when not listening to the database. Units are milliseconds.
Fake_Data_Sleep=120000
The following is the email address separated by spaces:
Fake_Email_Recipients=[e-mail]
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Table 7 Configuring the e-mail (SMTP) courier on the web server for alarms
...%HPSS_HOME%\pa\properties\serverparameters.properties
File
Each time an alarm is produced that has at least one e-mail recipient.
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The first two fields are used to establish a connection with the SMTP server. You must provide the
SMTP server names that can communicate with your web server. Changing the "from" field is advis-
able for readability purposes, especially if the SMTP server checks for a valid sender. This is not to
be used to spam people. Change the subject line and the definable message fields as desired.
These areas are especially useful for adding phrases for your particular locale, explaining what a
message means, or receiving the message into a program that parses the main body of the message
and performs some automated processing. Currently, there are no levels of alarm severity for e-mail
messages.
NOTE:
You can also configure the email (SMTP) courier settings for alarms from the P9000
Performance Advisor GUI. For more information, see the HP StorageWorks P9000
Performance Advisor Software User Guide .
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