Setting up system notifications allows you to define recipients for the event notifications and the system alerts, and to define the Call‑Home settings that integrate with Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR).
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) email messages that notify recipients of specified system events. System events include informational events, warning events, and critical events such as the creation of a logical volume or the occurrence of a hardware problem or software problem. Event notifications are optional and, when enabled, supplement normal event logging and Call‑Home notification.
System Alerts are the notifications that the Oracle FS System generates to identify conditions that warrant investigation and action.
Notifications about resources that are not fully operational, indicating a need for maintenance.
Notifications about insufficient storage, indicating a need for a reallocation of resources, a cleanup of resources, or possibly the purchase of additional storage. This kind of information is important when an administrator has implemented thin provisioning for one or more logical volumes.
The notifications that the Oracle FS System generates to send users a password token which allows them to reset forgotten passwords. An email server must be set up and the user must have a valid email address associated with the user account.
A feature of an Oracle FS System that, when enabled, allows the system to send the system status information, the appropriate logs, and the system configuration information to Oracle Customer Support. If the Auto Service Request (ASR) feature is enabled, Call‑Home also notifies Oracle Customer Support about critical issues that exist in the Oracle FS System.
You must define an email server to receive the alerts and the event notifications and to send the email messages to designated recipients.
The Oracle FS System supports the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) protocol for monitoring the configuration of various system components.