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Selecting Administration - Notifications in Expert mode displays the Notifications form, allowing you to set up alarm notifications about system issues or other events of interest that occur on the devices connected to the serial ports. You can configure notifications to be sent to users through email, pager or SNMP traps.
Clicking the Add button or selecting a previously specified event. Clicking the Edit button displays the Notifications Entry dialog box.The form allows you to define alarm trigger actions and specify how to handle them. Different fields appear on the dialog boxes depending on whether Email, Pager or SNMP Trap notification have been selected from the Notifications form.
1. Go to Administration - Notifications in Expert mode. The Notifications form displays.
2. Enable Notification Alarm for Data Buffering by clicking the checkbox.
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5. To edit a previously-configured trigger, click the Edit button.When you select Email from the pull-down menu and click either the Add or Edit button, the Email Notification dialog box is displayed. The following table describes the available fields in the email notification entry dialog box.
The first time you specify an alarm trigger the pull-down menu is empty. A new trigger gets listed in the menu after it is created.
1. Go to Administration - Notifications in Expert mode and select Email from the pull-down menu. If desired, enable Notification Alarm for Data Buffering for an alarm to sound when the trigger action occurs; and click either Add or Edit. The Notifications Entry dialog box displays.
10. Click OK.
11. Click apply changes.When you go to Administration - Notifications, select Pager from the pull-down menu and click on Add or Edit button the Pager Notifications Add/Edit dialog box displays. The following table describes the available fields in the pager notification entry dialog box.
The first time you specify an alarm trigger the pull-down menu is empty. A new trigger gets listed in the menu after it is created.
1. Go to Administration - Notifications in Expert mode and select Pager from the pull-down menu. If desired, enable Notification Alarm for Data Buffering for an alarm to sound when the trigger action occurs; and click either Add or Edit. The Notifications Add/Edit dialog box displays.
6. Enter or change the Short Message Services (SMS) username, the SMS server’s IP address or name and the SMS port number in the SMS User Name, SMS Server and SMS Port fields respectively.
7. Click OK.
8. Click apply changes.When you go to Administration - Notifications and select SNMP Trap from the pull-down menu and then click on the Add or Edit button, the Notifications SNMP Add/Edit dialog box displays.SNMP traps are event notifications sent to a list of responsible parties set up to receive alerts for the managed systems. Any SNMP enabled device generates Fault Reports (Traps) that are defined in the Management Information Base (MIB). SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 define the messaging format for the trap. The following table describes the available fields in the SNMP trap notification entry dialog box.
[untitled dropdown field] The first time you specify an alarm trigger the pull-down menu is empty. A new trigger gets listed in the menu after it is created. • Link Up
1. Go to Administration - Notifications in Expert mode, select SNMP Trap from the pull-down menu. If desired, enable Notification Alarm for Data Buffering for an alarm to sound when the trigger action occurs and click either Add or Edit. The Notifications Entry dialog box is displayed.
9. Click OK.
10. Click apply changes.You can configure the notification entry form to monitor the DCD signal so that the system will generate an alarm in any of the following events.The configuration also enables you to detect if a modem is in use and is still powered on and active.
1. Go to Administration - Notifications in Expert mode.
2. Enable the checkbox for Notification Alarm for Data Buffering.
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4. Click the Add button.
5. Enter Port in the Alarm Trigger field.
7. Click OK.
8. Click apply changes.