Questions about SMC3.0

> 1 - When an alarm appears (hardware failure, CPU

> utilization too high, etc), is there a way to send an

> email or a page or it just puts a litte red check on

> the server name?

If you drill down to where the alarm has occured, and right-click on the colored value, you have an option to open an "Attribute Editor". In this new window is an "Alarms" tab that you can uses to run scripts (i.e. the built-in email.sh script) to send notifications. If you want to do this for more than just a few alarms (i.e. you have many Agents) you can perform notification from your SunMC Server with a commercial package such as PrimeAlert EventAction:

http://www.halcyoninc.com/products/FrameworkPlugIns/EventAction/home.html

You can download that software for free with a 30-day eval license... I think you'll find it does exactly what you are looking for.

> 2 - With the process monitoring tool, can we send a

> mail when a process die or it just shows nothing...

See above. In a Process Monitoring module you can set an alarm (using the Attribute Editor) so a script is run when there are 0 (zero) processes running. And that script can send the email. In larger production deployments this is often done using EventAction because all notification and filtering can be centralized on a single SunMC Server.

> 3 - Also, with the filesystem size monitoring, is

> there a way to pop an event when the FS is full or

> used at 90% for example..

Sun ships some defaults for filesystem usage (i.e. 95% and 98% full) alarm limits, but they do not send any email or make any popups. You would receive email like in #1 and #2 above. Use Attribute Editor on the values you are interested in to trigger the alarms, and use a local script or EventAction to notify you about it.

Regards,

Aronek

Standard disclaimer: I am an employee of Halcyon (www.HalcyonInc.com)

Aronek at 2007-7-6 13:12:30 >