Meinberg LANTIME, Operating Instructions Manual

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Alarm events
On this page you can set up different notification types for a number of events. This
is an important feature because of the nature of a timeserver: running unobserved in
the background. If an error or problem occurs, the timeserver is able to notify an
administrator by using a number of different notification types.
The LANTIME timeserver offers four different ways of informing the administrator
or a responsible person about nine different events: EMAIL sends an e-mail message
to a specified e-mail account, SNMP-TRAP sends a SNMP trap to one or two SNMP
trap receivers, WINDOWS POPUP MESSAGE sends a winpopup message to one or
two different computers and DISPLAY shows the alarm message on a wall mount
display model VP100/NET, which is an optional accessory you can obtain for your
LANTIME.
Here is a table of supported events:
"NTP not sync" NTP is not synchronised to a reference time source
"NTP stopped" NTP has been stopped (mostly when very large time offsets
occur)
"Server boot" System has been restarted
"Receiver not responding" No contact to the internal GPS receiver
"Receiver not sync" Internal GPS clock is not synchronised to GPS time
"Antenna faulty" GPS antenna disconnected
"Antenna reconnect" GPS antenna reconnected
"Config changed" Configuration was changed by a user
„Leap second announced“ A leap second has been announced
“TIME LIMIT ERROR” SHS detected time difference
Every event can use a combination of those four notification types, of course you can
disable notification for an event (by just disabling all notification types for this event).
The configuration of the four notification types can be changed in the upper section of
the page, you can control which notification is used for which event in the lower part
of the page.
E-mail messages
You can specify the e-mail address which is used as the senders address of the
notification e-mail (From: address), the e-mail address of the receiver (To: address)
and a SMTP smarthost, that is a mail server forwarding your mail to the receiver’s
mail server. If your LANTIME system is connected to the internet, it can deliver
those e-mails itself by directly connecting to the receivers mail server.
These settings cannot be altered with the LC display buttons of the front panel. Please
note the following:
- The LANTIME hostname and domain name should be known to the SMTP
smarthost
- A valid nameserver entry is needed
- The domain part of the “From:” address has to be valid
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