PowerScale OneFS Web Administration Guide

Create a channel

You can create and configure new channels to send out alert information.

1. Click Cluster Management > Events and Alerts > Alert Management.
2. In the CELOG alerting area, click the Alert channel tab.
3. In the Alert Channel area, click Create channel.
4. Select the Enable channel check box to enable or disable the channel.
5. In the Channel name field, type the channel name.
6. Select the delivery mechanism for the channel from the Channel type list.
   NOTE Depending on the delivery mechanism you select, different settings appear.
7. If you are creating an SMTP channel, you can configure the following settings:
   1. In the Send to field, enter an email address that you want to receive alerts on this channel.
      To add another email address to the channel, click Add another email address.
   2. To manually configure the SMTP server settings, select the Manually configured SMTP server settings radio button and configure the following fields.
   3. In the Send from field, enter the email address that you want to appear in the from field of the alert email messages.
   4. In the Subject field, enter the text that you want to appear on the subject line of the alert email messages.
   5. In the SMTP host or relay address field, enter your SMTP host or relay address.
   6. In the SMTP relay port field, enter the number of your SMTP relay port.
   7. Select the Use SMTP authentication check box to specify a username and password for your SMTP server.
   8. Specify your connection security between NONE or STARTTLS.
   9. From the Notification batch mode list, select whether alerts will be batched together, by severity, or by category.
   10. From the Notification email template list, select whether email messages will be created from a default or custom email template.
       If you specify a custom template, enter the location of the template on your cluster in the Custom Template Location field.
   11. In the Allowed nodes field, type the node number of a node in the cluster that is allowed to send alerts through this channel.
       To add another allowed node to the channel, click Add another Node. If you do not specify any nodes, all nodes in the cluster are considered as allowed nodes.
   12. In the Excluded nodes field, type the node number of a node in the cluster that is not allowed to send alerts through this channel.
       To add another excluded node to the channel, click Exclude another node.
8. If you are creating a CONNECTEMC channel, you can configure the following settings:
   1. In the Allowed nodes field, type the node number of a node in the cluster that is allowed to send alerts through this channel.
      To add another allowed node to the channel, click Add another node. If you do not specify any nodes, all nodes in the cluster are considered as allowed nodes.
   2. In the Excluded nodes field, type the node number of a node in the cluster that is not allowed to send alerts through this channel.
      To add another excluded node to the channel, click Exclude another node.
9. If you are creating an SNMP channel, you can configure the following settings:
   1. In the Community field, enter your SNMP community string.
   2. In the Host field, enter your SNMP hostname or address.
   3. In the Allowed nodes field, type the node number of a node in the cluster that is allowed to send alerts through this channel.
      To add another allowed node to the channel, click Add another node. If you do not specify any nodes, all nodes in the cluster are considered as allowed nodes.
   4. In the Excluded nodes field, type the node number of a node in the cluster that is not allowed to send alerts through this channel.
      To add another excluded node to the channel, click Exclude another node.
10. Click Create channel.