Sun StorageTek 5800 System Administration Guide

This chapter describes how to configure system notifications. It contains the following sections:

• Configuring System Notifications
• Registering Online

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Configuring System Notifications

If you configure email notifications, the 5800 system sends email alerts for conditions such as the following:

• Enabling or disabling of a disk or node
• System reboot
• System shutdown
• Administrator password change
• Switch failover
• Node failure
• Disk added or removed
• System has reached capacity (any disk has reached 80% raw utilization) and cannot accept new objects. (See Obtaining Disk Status for information about using the df -p command to monitor raw utilization on the disks.)
• Data or administrative IP address change
• System “wiped” of all data
• System upgrade
• Schema changes

To configure the 5800 system to send email notifications, you must specify a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server and the email address of the recipient.

You can also specify an external logging host to which the 5800 system sends detailed log messages for debugging purposes.

You configure the email notifications and the external logging host on a per-hive basis.

1. Specify the SMTP server and port number with the command
hivecfg --smtp_server ip_address --smtp_port ip_address.

For example:

ST5800 $ hivecfg --smtp_server 10.7.224.15 --smtp_port 25

2. To add or delete an email address (either To: or cc:) from the specified list type use the commands alertcfg add to addresses or alertcfg del cc addresses.

For example:

ST5800 $ alertcfg add to alerts@samplecompany.com
ST5800 $ alertcfg del cc admin@samplecompany.com

1. From the navigation panel, choose Configuration > Notification.

2. Click Set Up Email.

3. (Optional) If DNS is enabled and you want to enter host names instead of IP addresses, select Host Name.

4. Type the IP address or host name of the SMTP server that you want the 5800 system to use.

5. Type the port number of the SMTP server.

6. Perform one of the following:

• To add an email recipient:

i. Click the Add button

A new row is displayed in the table.

ii. In the Type field, choose the type of recipient that you want: To or Cc.

iii. In the Address field, type the full email address of the recipient.

• To remove an email recipient:

i. Click the Remove button

ii. At the prompt, confirm the removal.

7. Click Apply.

  To set an external log host for the 5800 system, use the command hivecfg --external_logger ip_address.

For example:

ST5800 $ hivecfg --external_logger 10.7.224.15

1. From the navigation panel, choose Configuration > Notification.

2. Click Set Logging Host.

3. (Optional) If DNS is enabled and you want to enter host names instead of IP addresses, select Host Name.

4. Type the IP address or host name of the host to which the email notifications log will be sent.

5. Click Apply.

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Registering Online

You can register information about you and your 5800 system with Sun Microsystems. (For this version of the 5800 system, registration just involves sending Sun your user information; Sun does no monitoring or transfer of telemetry.)

Registering Using the CLI

This function is not available from the CLI.

1. From the navigation panel, choose Configuration > Online Registration.

2. The Online Registration panel is displayed.

3. Read the disclaimer and select the Agree check box.

4. In the Sun Account section, type your Sun account number and password.

5. If you do not know your account number and password, click the link at the bottom of the panel.

6. Click the Proxy Server tab and type your proxy server name, port, user name, and user name password.

7. Click Apply.

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