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Surveyor
User’s Guide
You can select but not configure the E-mail, Log File, Pager, or SNMP Trap action
on a remote host running Surveyor. If the settings that support these actions have not
been configured correctly at the remote host, the alarm action does not occur when
the alarm is triggered.
Setting an absolute value as the threshold for an alarm will trigger an action only
once.
Log File Settings
There is one log file per host. All alarms on the local host go in one log file in
Surveyor. To set the name of this file, select
Host → Alarm Setting → Log File
Settings
.
For the THGs, log information is stored at the THGs until requested by the user.
THGs hosts can store about 500 alarm messages. If more than 500 alarms occur, the
THGs writes over the log message with the earliest timestamp. When you want to
view the file, go to
Host → Alarm Setting → Log File Settings. Enter a file name,
press
Get Alarm Log File. The log information will be transferred to the named file in
the ...\Surveyor\Log directory on the local host. Note that the dialog box for
the log file name does not accept a complete path name for the THGs log file.
E-Mail Settings
Microsoft Exchange or message utilities must be installed and enabled before E-
mail and pager actions can occur.
When sending E-mail, multiple addresses can be configured from the
Host → Alarm
Setting
→ E-mail Settings... menu. Setting the addresses for alarm actions is a global
setting for the host. All alarms reported by Surveyor will go to the same set of E-
mail addresses. For example, you cannot send some alarms to one set of e-mail
addresses and some alarms to another set of e-mail addresses.
SNMP Trap sends an SNMP trap to a specified management station(s).
The trap destinations are configured as part of the host con-
figuration for devices containing analyzer cards.
The SNMP service must be installed and started for the trap
to be sent. The Surveyor MIB or THGs MIB for the host will
be available for the SNMP management station.
Surveyor,
THGs/THGsE
Execute starts an executable file. Surveyor does not allow selection of
a non-executable file. Executable files with extensions of
.exe, .bat, or .cmd are allowed. When the Execute action is
selected, a dialog box appears to specify the executable file.
Only one file can be selected with each alarm condition.
Local Surveyor
only
Table 9-4. Alarm Actions (continued)