User Manual
6
ALERTS, AUTO-RESPONSE & LOGGING
This chapter describes the automated response, alert generation and logging features of the console
server.
With Auto-Response the console server monitors selected serial ports, logins, the power status and
environmental monitors and probes for Check Condition triggers. The console server initiates a sequence
of actions in response to these triggers. To configure Auto-Response:
1.
Set the general parameters
2.
Select and configure the Check Conditions, the conditions that trigger the response.
3.
Specify the Trigger Actions, the sequence of actions initiated in event of the trigger condition.
4.
Specify the Resolve Actions, the actions performed when trigger conditions have been resolved.
Console servers can maintain log records of all access and communications with the console server and
with the attached serial devices. A log of all system activity is also maintained as is a history of the status
of any attached environmental monitors.
Some models can also log access and communications with network attached hosts and maintain a
history of the UPS and PDU power status.
If port logs are to be maintained on a remote server, the access path to this location need to be configured
Activate and set the desired levels of logging for each
serial and/or network port and/or power and
environment UPS.
6.1
Configure Auto-Response
With the Auto-Response facility, a sequence of Trigger Actions is initiated in the event of a specified
trigger condition (Check Condition). Subsequent Resolve Actions can also be performed when the trigger
condition has been resolved.
To configure, set the general parameters that apply to all Auto-Responses:
•
Check
Log Events
on
Alerts & Logging > Auto-Response
to enable logging
all Auto-Response
activities
•
Check
Delay after Boot
to set any general delay to be applied after console server system
boot, before processing events
