How to configure AlarmNotifier in CA Spectrum

 

How to configure AlarmNotifier in CA Spectrum




Follow below steps to configure the Alarm Notification for email notification in Ca Spectrum

Step 1

On Windows use mail command to enable the mail service so that AlarmNotifier scripts can send email notification

Mail -h <SMTP Hostname> -u <Return Hostname> - m <Domain Name>

As an example mail -h smtp.ca.com -u spectrum -m ca.com

To Verify that the configuration is completed, view the registry entries for

HKEY_LOCAL_USER/Software/SMail.

The hostname, smtphost, and username keys now contain the information that you included in the command string.

Step 2

To configure AlarmNotifier to send an email when an alarm is received. 

1. Edit the $SPECROOT/Notifier/SetScript file

2. Locate the following line:

SENDMAIL=False

3. Modify the entry as follows:

SENDMAIL=True

4. Locate the following line

VARFORMAIL=RepairPerson

5. Modify the entry as follows:

VARFORMAIL=Both

6. Save the changes made to this file

Modify the ClearScript and UpdateScript files using these same instructions.

Step 3

To ensure AlarmNotifier is always running, you can configure processd to automatically start AlarmNotifier at processd startup and to restart AlarmNotifier should processd see the AlarmNotifier process has stopped.

To configure processd to do this:

1. $SPECROOT/lib/SDPM/partslist/ALARMNOTIFIER.idb file

2. Locate the following lines:

AUTORESTART;y;

AUTOBOOTSTART;n;

3. Out of the box you can see AUTORESTART is already set to yes. Change the AUTOBOOTSTART to yes also. The entries should now appear as:

AUTORESTART;y;

AUTOBOOTSTART;y;

4. Save the changes made to this file

Step 4

1. On Windows, start a bash shell by running "bash -login".

2. cd to the $SPECROOT/lib/SDPM directory

3. Enter the following command to restart processd and pick up the changes made to the ALARMNOTIFIER.idb file:

./processd –restart

 Once this is done, open oneclick Console -> go to Locator-> SANM->All Policies and configure the email notification policy.

 

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