5.5 HP StorageWorks X9720 Network Storage System Administrator Guide (AW549-96026, March 2011)

6 Configuring cluster event notification
Setting up email notification of cluster events
You can set up event notifications by event type or for one or more specific events. To set up automatic
email notification of cluster events, associate the events with email recipients and then configure email
settings to initiate the notification process.
Associating events and email addresses
You can associate any combination of cluster events with email addresses: all Alert, Warning, or Info
events, all events of one type plus a subset of another type, or a subset of all types.
The notification threshold for Alert events is 90% of capacity. Threshold-triggered notifications are
sent when a monitored system resource exceeds the threshold and are reset when the resource
utilization dips 10% below the threshold. For example, a notification is sent the first time usage reaches
90% or more. The next notice is sent only if the usage declines to 80% or less (event is reset), and
subsequently rises again to 90% or above.
To associate all types of events with recipients, omit the -e argument in the following command. Use
the ALERT, WARN, and INFO keywords to make specific type associations or use EVENTLIST to
associate specific events.
<installdirectory>/bin/ibrix_event -c [-e ALERT|WARN|INFO|EVENTLIST] -m EMAILLIST
The following command associates all types of events to [e-mail]:
<installdirectory>/bin/ibrix_event -c -m [e-mail]
The next command associates all Alert events and two Info events to [e-mail]:
<installdirectory>/bin/ibrix_event -c -e ALERT,server.registered,filesystem.space.full
-m [e-mail]
Configuring email notification settings
Configuring email notification settings involves specifying the SMTP server and header information
and turning the notification process on or off. The state of the email notification process has no effect
on the display of cluster events in the management console GUI.
The server must be able to receive and send email and must recognize the From and Reply-to addresses.
Be sure to specify valid email addresses, especially for the SMTP server. If an address is not valid,
the SMTP server will reject the email.
<installdirectory>/bin/ibrix_event -m on|off -s SMTP -f from [-r reply-to] [-t subject]
The following command configures email settings to use the mail.hp.com SMTP server and to turn on
notifications:
<installdirectory>/bin/ibrix_event -m on -s mail.hp.com -f [e-mail]
-r [e-mail] -t Cluster1 Notification
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