Create an Administrative Alert

Use this task to create an administrative alert and select subscription and destination properties.

Fields

Name
Specify a unique name for the administrative alert. The name must consist of a minimum of one alphanumeric character and a maximum of 64 alphanumeric characters. You can use alphabetic characters of A - Z and a - z, numbers of 0 - 9, as well as underscore ( _ ) characters. A name cannot begin with a number and cannot be a PowerHA™ reserved word. You can find the most current list of reserved words in the file /usr/es/sbin/cluster/etc/reserved_words.
Description
Specify a brief description for the administrative alert. The description you specify must consist of a minimum of one alphanumeric character and a maximum of 255 alphanumeric characters. You can also use underscore (_) characters.
E-mail address(es) to send alerts to
Specify one or more e-mail addresses, cell phone numbers, or pager numbers to which the alerts are to be sent, using a comma to delineate between each item you enter.
Choose events
Select one or more event monitors from a list of Node events, Network events, and Interface events that are to be sent to the specified destination when the events occur in the cluster.
Template filename
Specify the full path and file name for the text file that contains the alert message.
Retry counter
Specify the number times to reissue the alert notification if the first attempt fails. The default value is 3..
Timeout (seconds)
Specify the number of seconds to wait before considering an attempt to send an alert notification to have failed. The default value is 45 seconds.