Cisco IPICS Server Administration Guide, Release 4.0(2) - Configuring System Event E-Mail Notifications [Cisco IP Interoperability and Collaboration System]

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Configuring System Event E-Mail Notifications

Understanding System Event E-Mail Notifications

Enabling System Event E-Mail Notifications

Disabling System Event E-Mail Notifications

Configuring System Event E-Mail Notifications

This appendix describes system event e-mail notifications and how to enable or disable them, and includes the following sections:

•Understanding System Event E-Mail Notifications

•Enabling System Event E-Mail Notifications

•Disabling System Event E-Mail Notifications

Understanding System Event E-Mail Notifications

The system administrator can log in to the Administration Console to access major system event information. However, the system administrator should be notified when major system events occur, even when not logged in to the Administration Console. You can configure the IPICS server to send system event notifications to the system administrator when any of the following major system events occur:

•The 1 minute load average exceeds 5

•The 5 minute load average exceeds 3

•Memory usage exceeds 75%

•User CPU usage exceeds 70%

•System CPU usage exceeds 40%

•I/O wait exceeds 40%

•The node manager process starts or stops

•The server HA state changes (active/standby)

•Any partition is more than 90% full, except for the /documents partition which sends notifications after it is 75% full.

Enabling System Event E-Mail Notifications

By default, the IPICS server does not send system event e-mail notifications to the system administrator. To enable system event e-mail notifications, perform the following procedure.

Before You Begin

Collect the following information that you must supply when configuring system event e-mail notifications:

•The hostname or IP address of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server that is to be used for sending the notifications.

•The e-mail address or mailing-list alias of the system administrators who are to receive the notifications,

Procedure

Step 1 Log in to the IPICS server bash shell using the root account.

Step 2 At the root prompt, run the /opt/cisco/ipics/bin/setup_monit_alerts script.

Step 3 Enter the the IP address or hostname of the SMTP e-mail server.

Step 4 Enter the e-mail address for the system administrator.

The system applies the configuration settings and reinitializes the monit daemon.

The following example configures the IPICS server to send system event e-mail notifications to the SysAdmin@cisco.com e-mail account using the email.cisco.com STMP server.
[root]# /opt/cisco/ipics/bin/setup_monit_alerts 
Enter the SMTP e-mail server host name: email.cisco.com 
Enter the e-mail address to send system alerts to: SysAdmin@cisco.com 
Reinitializing monit daemon
Applying changes to HA partner...
Welcome to Cisco IPICS 4.0(2)
building file list ... done
sent 78 bytes received 20 bytes 196.00 bytes/sec
total size is 11131 speedup is 113.58
Welcome to Cisco IPICS 4.0(2)
Reinitializing monit daemon
Disabling System Event E-Mail Notifications

To disable the IPICS server from sending system event e-mail notifications, perform the following procedure.

Procedure

Step 1 Log in to the IPICS server bash shell using the root account.

Step 2 Enter the rm -f /etc/monit.d/email.monitrc /etc/monit.d/alerts.monitrc command to delete the email.monitrc and alerts.monitrc files.

Step 3 Enter the monit reload command to reinitialize the monit daemon.

The following example disables the IPICS server from sending system event e-mail notifications:
[root]# rm -f /etc/monit.d/email.monitrc /etc/monit.d/alerts.monitrc
[root]# monit reload
What to do Next

If you want to re-enable system event e-mail notifications, run the /opt/cisco/ipics/bin/setup_monit_alerts script to regenerate the deleted files (email.monitrc and alerts.monitrc). For more information, see the "Enabling System Event E-Mail Notifications" section.

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	Configuring System Event E-Mail Notifications
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