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.