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4.9.7 Monitoring and alerting
The Event Monitor program is included in the Storage Manager Client package. It enables the
host running this monitor to send out alerts (through e-mail (SMTP) or traps (SNMP)) about
any of the DS5000 storage subsystems in your environment.
Earlier versions of Storage Manager include the Event Monitor, where the Enterprise
Management window had to remain open to monitor the storage subsystems and receive
alerts. Now you will receive an alert either from the SMclient, if it is opened, or from the Event
Monitor program.
For continuous monitoring, install the Event Monitor on a host computer that runs 24 hours a
day. If you choose not to install the Event Monitor, you should still configure alerts on the host
computer where the client software is installed, but it will only work when the SMclient is
opened. The installed server should be capable of out-of-band and in-band management.
This ensures proper alerting, even if one server is down, or a connection type has failed.
The Enterprise Storage Management Task Assistant lets you configure alerts with the
following options:
All storage subsystems in the management domain
An individual storage subsystems
All storage subsystems managed through an specific host
The steps are:
1. Make sure the SMclient package has been installed in the workstation you configure to
send alerts.
2. Decide which storage systems you want to monitor. You can set up alert-notification
destination addresses where you will be notified. Use the Enterprise Task or the following
options to configure the alerts.
Important: The DS5000 storage subsystem does not send the e-mail or SNMP trap itself.
The management station running the event monitor service sends the e-mail or SNMP trap
on behalf of the DS5000 storage subsystem. If the management station is down, or if the
event monitor process is not running, no notifications will be sent.
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