Help for E-mail alert event list
The E-mail alert Event List page displays the list of conditions that the appliance will monitor.
There are a number of conditions which the appliance can check for. See the help for E-mail alerts for a general description of how E-mail alerts work, and when a condition can trigger sending an e-mail alert message.
Each file system is considered independently to determine if a new e-mail alert message should be sent. For example, if the / file system has triggered an e-mail alert within the last 24 hours, and then the /home file system exceeds the threshold, a new e-mail alert will be sent.
Only local file systems are checked. Local file systems reside on hard drives physically in the appliance.
XX should be a number between 0 and 100. Example: 50 is acceptable, 120 or -1 are not.
The processor load is a measure of how busy the CPU is. A typical load for a mostly idle computer is 0.15. A very busy computer might have a load of 10 or more.
XX should be 0 or a positive number. Example: 0, 0.5, and 5 are acceptable, -3 is not.
The appliance has three Web servers: The production Web server, on port 80; the IBM HTTP Server Administration Web server, on port 8008 and 8009; and the Appliance System Manager Web server, on ports 1959 and 1999.
Each Web server is an independent condition. After one has failed, the failure of another will trigger a new e-mail alert message.
A PING is a TCP/IP request for a quick response message. It is used to determine if the destination machine is running, and there is a network path to the destination.
Note that a machine can respond to a PING even if most of its services are not working. This condition tests your network, and that the destination machine is not completely down, but not that the destination machine is providing any useful services.
xxxx should be a hostname or IP address. Example: hosta.example.com and 10.1.3.2 are acceptable.
The total virtual memory of the appliance consists of the physical memory size, plus the size of swap space.
XX should be a number between 0 and 100.
This condition will generate an e-mail alert each time the machine is restarted after an abnormal shutdown, even if it occurs less than 24 hours after the last alert for this condition.
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