General Options


General Options

You can use the General Options screen to enable, disable, or reset the alarm, or to set the polling options.

When you select General Options from the Options pull-down menu, a screen similar to the following appears.

 


Enabling, Disabling, or Resetting the Alarm: The alarm alerts you if any of the following conditions occur:


To enable or disable the alarm, click on the box for Disable Alarm on the General Options screen. Placing a check in the box disables the alarm, removing the check enables the alarm.

To reset the alarm, click on the   icon
or click on Reset Alarm on the General Options menu. Resetting the alarm turns off the alarm for the current failure. It does not disable the feature.

Polling Options You can use the General Options screen to define how often the ServeRAID controller will poll, or check the server for any changes that might have occurred in the server (such as a rebuild or a drive entering the defunct (DDD) state). You can set a time interval of from five to 60 seconds. The default time interval setting is five seconds.

The following events are polled for:


Netfinity Alert Options: Netfinity alerts allow system administrators who are using the Netfinity Manager to configure the ServeRAID Administration and Monitoring utility program, to notify the Netfinity Alert Manager of various activities occurring on the server.

To configure the settings for the Netfinity alerts:
  1.  Open the Options pull-down menu.
  2.  Click on Alert Options.
  3.  Click on Netfinity Alerts.

     A screen similar to the following appears.

     
  4.  To enable all of the Netfinity alerts, click on the check box next to  Enable Netfinity Alerts.
  5.  To disable any of the Netfinity alerts:

    1.  Verify that there is a check in the check box next to Enable Netfinity Alerts.
    2.  Click on the check box next to the specific alert or alerts that you want to disable.

  6.   to test the Netfinity alerts, click on the Send Test Alert button. This  will send a Netfinity alert and test message to the Netfinity Alert Manager.


If Netfinity alerts are enabled, the ServeRAID controller relays three types of messages to the Netfinity Alert Manager:

Information messages

Warning messages

Critical messages

By knowing what these types of messages are, the system administrator can then configure Netfinity Manager with instructions for monitoring the server configuration and specifying the appropriate action to take if an alert is issued. For example, the system administrator can program Netfinity Manager to dial out through a modem to a specified phone number if a defunct drive is detected on any server across the network.


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