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Alerts
Configuring Alerts in the CLI
Alerts are configured on a per-user basis. A user with administrative log in credentials can specify
alerts for any user on any object; users without administrative credentials can only specify alerts
for themselves on objects on which they have permissions.
Refer to
"Object Permission Types"
on page 735 for descriptions of object-user permissions.
Prior to configuring alerts, you must have previously configured load balancing objects. In order
for a user's alert notification emails to work, a mail server:
l
Must be added to external services.
l
Must be selected in the user's context.
Alert Parameters
name A descriptive name for the alert.
object
The fully qualified name of the object to which the alert applies. This is a semi-colon
delimited list describing the object hierarchy. For example, to set an alert for vlan vl01,
subnet sn00, the user would specify:
object vl01:sn00, and the object_type would be 'subnet'.
For another example, to set an alert for peer eq-A, F/O Group fo_group1, the user would
specify:
object eq-A:fo_group1, and the object_type would be 'fogrp'.
The last object name in the hierarchy may contain one or more wildcard (*) characters. For
example, to configure an alert for all subnets of vlan vl01, specify: 'object vl01:*'
Also, an object hierchary of 'vl01:sn*1' would configure alerts for subnets: sn1, sn01,
sn11, etc.
object_type
Can be a si (server instance), fogrp (failover group), peer , interface (port), srvpool
(server pool), llb-gw (Link Load Balancing Gateway), and server.
alert_type
Alert Types are state_change and exception . The state_change alert indicates that the
object has transitioned from one state to another (i.e., when a server stops responding to
health checks and is marked "down".) An
exception alert indicates an error condition exists
on the object of the alert. (i.e., when all servers in a server pool are marked "down").
notify_type
ui , email , syslog and smartd . You can specify multiple notification types by separating
them on the command line with a comma (
,
) or vertical bar (
|
).
to
If the email notification type is specified, this is the list of email addresses to which the
email will be sent. Multiple email addresses must be comma separated with no spaces. Note
that an SMTP Relay must be configured.
subject
For the email notification type, this is the optional subject of the email. For the syslog
notification type, this text is included in the system log message. The text must be enclosed
in quotes.
Server Instance Alert Example
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