ASAP 2.8 Client Manual

Configuring ASAP
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Notify Control Panel
This menu allows you to control what conditions will cause a profile to send a
notification. Notifications can occur:
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At periodic time intervals such as Every 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 ... Hours;
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At user-defined times such as 6:17, 7:30, 9:45, 11:00, 12:55, 15:05, …
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When object-state changes occur - OnStateChange
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When new sampling analysis activity occurs - OnEachSample
Alerts menu - if the value selected is zero, this drop-down disables the display of an
Alerts report for this profile. If the value selected is not zero, the value indicates the
number of color-coded recent object-state changes that should be displayed for this
report. Alerts are reported with most recent state changes listed first, followed by less
recent changes.
Score Check Box - if selected, a color-coded score-board matrix of object types
versus object-state counts is generated whenever a notification occurs for this profile.
This report is useful for providing the overall health of system, subsystem, and
application objects.
Detail Drop-Down - if the value selected is zero, this menu disables the display of a
Detail report for this profile. If the value selected is not zero, the value defines the
number of most critical objects to be displayed in the object-state report. The Detail
report shows offending objects sorted from the highest, most-critical state to the
lowest, least-critical state.
Style HTML Option - indicates reports should be formatted in HTML.
Style TEXT Option - indicates reports should be formatted in plain text.
Style Short Check Box - indicates reports should be extremely abbreviated. Select
this check box if you want only brief Alerts, Score, and Details reports. This is
especially useful if you are sending a report to a short text message device (for
example, a wireless pager or a cell phone).
Suggestion: To send notifications via a short message service such as an SMTP
gateway, create a different profile for each report type, (Alerts, Score, and Detail), each
with Short Text selected. That way you will receive three different abbreviated reports
when an alert occurs.
Refresh Drop-Down - indicates the HTML refresh rate in seconds. If this field is not
zero, the value specifies how often a web browser automatically updates the web page
for this profile. That is, the Notify Rule defines when a web page file is updated on the
web server, and the Refresh menu defines how often a web browser should pull that
page. The web page file is defined in the File text box.
File text box - indicates reports for this profile will be stored in the file specified. If this
field is blank, the report notification is sent without being stored on disk. If this field
specifies a valid path and file name, the report is stored in the file specified. If Style is
HTML, the contents (and the extension) of the file are formatted as HTML.