Configuring Alerts for SGM and Chassis Events (asg alert)

Use asg alert an interactive wizard to configure alerts for SGM and Chassis events. Chassis events include hardware failure, recovery, and performance related events, and you can create other, general events.

An alert is sent when an event occurs, for example, when the value of a hardware resource is greater than the threshold. The alert message includes the Chassis ID, SGM ID and/or unit ID.

The wizard includes these options:

Option	Description
Full Configuration Wizard	Create a new alert
Edit Configuration	Change an existing alert
Show Configuration	Show existing alert configurations
Run Test	Run a test simulation to make sure that the alert works correctly

To create or change an alert:

1. Run:

   > asg alert

2. Select and configure these parameters as prompted by the wizard:
   • Alert type and related parameters
   • Event type
   • Alert mode

Alert Parameters

• SMS alert parameters
  • SMS Provider URL - Fully qualified URL to your SMS provider.
  • HTTP proxy and port (optional) – Necessary only if your Security Gateway requires a proxy server to reach the SMS provider.
  • SMS rate limit - Maximum number of SMS messages sent per hour. When there are too many messages, other messages may be combined together in one message.
  • SMS user text - Custom prefix for SMS messages.
• Email alert configuration
  • SMTP server IP - One or more SMTP servers to which the email alerts are sent.
  • Email recipient addresses - One or more recipient email addresses for each SMTP server.
  • Periodic connectivity checks - Run tests periodically to confirm connectivity with the SNMP servers. If there is no connectivity, alert messages are saved and sent in one email when connectivity is restored.
  • Interval - Interval, in minutes, between connectivity tests.
  • Sender email address - Sender email address for email alerts.
  • Subject - Subject header text for the email alert.
  • Body text - User-defined text for the alert message.
• SNMP alert parameters

  Define one or more SNMP managers to get SNMP traps sent from the Security Gateway. For each manager, configure these parameters as prompted:

  • SNMP manager name - Name for your SNMP manager (unique).
  • SNMP manager IP - Manager IP address (trap receiver).
  • SNMP version - SNMP version to use (v2cv3).
  • SNMP v3 user name - If using SNMP v3 authentication, you must configure this.
  • SNMP v3 engine ID - Unique SNMP v3 engine ID used by your system.
    Default = [0x80000000010203EA].
  • SNMP v3 authentication protocol - MD5 or SHA.
  • SNMP v3 authentication password - Privacy password.
  • SNMP v3 privacy protocol - DES or AES.
  • SNMP v3 privacy password - Privacy password.
  • SNMP user text - Custom text for the SNMP trap messages.
  • SNMP community string - Community string for the SNMP manager.

    Note - Some parameters do not show, based on your settings.

• Log alert parameters
  • There are no configurable parameters for log alerts.

Event types

You can select one or more event types:

• One event type.
• A comma-delimited list of more than one event type.
• all event types.

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  1 | SGM State

  2 | Chassis State

  3 | Port State

  4 | Pingable Hosts State

  5 | System Monitor Daemon

  6 | Route State

  7 | Diagnostics

  Hardware Monitor events:

  8 | Fans

  9 | SSM

  10 | CMM

  11 | Power Supplies

  12 | CPU Temperature

  Performance events:

  13 | Concurrent Connections

  14 | Connection Rate

  15 | Packet Rate

  16 | Throughput

  17 | CPU Load

  18 | Hard Drive Utilization

  19 | Memory Utilization

Alert Modes

• Enabled - An alert is sent for the selected events.
• Disabled - No alert is sent for the selected events.
• Monitor - A log entry is generated instead of an alert.