Coyote Point Systems Equalizer GX Series, Administration Manual

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Smart Control
Smart Control Types
Your user account must have administrative privileges to create Smart Controls. They can
execute scripts (events) in four ways:
1. They can be executed in real time using eqcli command line.syntax in the format
eqcli >
smart_control scname run
.
2. They can be scheduled for a particular time using a cron-like mechanism. This is scheduled
type.
3. They can be scheduled to repeat every several seconds. This is the
interval
type.
4. They can be set up to execute when an event occurs. This is triggered type. This kind of con-
trol is only run when a trigger event happens within the system. The alerting mechanism
automatically notifies the alert daemon (alertd) when something has occurred. That dae-
mon determines which alerts should be fired. For triggered events, the alertd daemon is
responsible for the events themselves, rather than smartd. The alertd daemon reads the
configuration and waits for triggers to occur. Once one does, it notifies smartd to execute a
particular PHP script. Alerts need to be configured prior to configuring a Smart Control.
Refer to
"Configuring Alerts"
on page 715 for descriptions.
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