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Configuring Clusters
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Administrator alarm notifications
The ClusterCATS alarm notification feature provides instant feedback about critical events that take place within a cluster. When an event triggers an alarm, ClusterCATS notifies one or more people by e-mail. The events that can trigger a notification are listed below.
If an event you selected occurs, ClusterCATS sends an e-mail message to the designated person. The following table explains the notification schedule for each event.
| Event type |
Notification occurs... |
| Disk Failure |
Immediately |
| HTTP Server Failure |
Immediately |
| Server Busy Warning |
Every 24 hours |
| Server Unreachable |
Immediately |
| Web Server Failover |
Immediately |
| JRun Probe Failure |
Immediately |
This section describes the following:
Configuring administrator alarm notifications on Windows
To configure an alarm notification:
- In ClusterCATS Explorer, select a cluster.
- Select Configure > Alarm Notification or right-click the cluster and select Configure > Alarm Notification.
The Alarm Notification dialog box displays.
- Select an event for which to trigger an alarm and enter the e-mail address of the person you want to receive an e-mail notification of the event.
If you want multiple people to receive an e-mail notification about an event, add more e-mail addresses to the field. Separate each e-mail address with a comma.
- Repeat step 3 for each event you want to be notified about.
To send all notifications to one e-mail address, enter the address once and click Propagate.
- Enter the name of the default SMTP mail server to which your mail is delivered, in the Default SMTP Host field.
- Click OK.
Configuring administrator alarm notifications on UNIX
To configure administrator alarm notifications:
- In ClusterCATS Web Explorer, click the Show Cluster link. The Show Cluster page appears.
- Enter the fully qualified host name of a server for which to configure administrator alarm notifications in the Web Server Name field.
- Click OK. The Cluster Member List page appears.
- Click the Alarm Notification link.
The Alarm Notification page appears:
- Enter the e-mail address of the person you want to be notified about the occurrence of an event in the event's corresponding field.
If you want multiple people to receive an e-mail notification about one event, add more e-mail addresses to the field. Separate each address with a comma.
- Enter the name of the default SMTP mail server to which your mail is delivered, in the SMTP Host field.
- Click OK to apply your changes.
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