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Alert and Alarm Facilities Tour

The Alert and Alarm facilities are part of SuperLogging. They  are also used by other SuperComponents as basic facilities, such as SuperScheduler and SuperWatchdog. On this tour, we will show you how to use them. Please See Alert Email and Alarm Email for general information.

1. Go to the main menu. Click on Module > SuperLogging > Alarm Email.

2. We should see the Alarm List Panel. But if this is your first time visiting the Alarm Email Facilities, the Alert Panel will pop up.

 

Please specify your PostMaster email address (the From address for email), the To address and your Mail Host machine.

If the Email server requires authentication is checked, other parts will show on the panel. 

 

Enter the Mail host user name and password to get the authentication.

You can click the Test Alert button to see if it works. If you click on the Test Alert button again within 15 minutes, the second click will not work. This is what the Alert Interval for. It is for avoiding flooding of alert emails. If you want to do repeat testing, you'd better to give a smaller interval.

Let's click Ok to close this panel.

3. The Alarm Email List Panel appears. Alarm emails are sent to people who are responsible for specified subjects.  Use Add, Edit, Delete and Test buttons to manage Alarm email. Use the Alert Email button to reset alert email and your mail host. 

There is a default subject called !default , any alarm email, which is nowhere to send, will send to this default email address. so you must provide an address for it.  Highlight !default line and click the Edit button.

4. The Alarm Email Panel appears.

Here we add operator@acelet.com as the default email receiver.

Click Ok.

5. The Alarm Email List Panel comes back. We can see what we have specified on the !default line. We can use the Add button to add another alarm email item and the new Alarm Email List Panel looks like:

The first item means that all the emails with Subject: !default will send to operator@acelet.com. The second item means that all the emails with Subject: system reboot will send to admin@acelet.com.

There is the Test button on the top. You can highlight a line and press the Test button to test. Just like the test facility on the Alert Email Panel, the test facility here will be silent for interval. Each alarm item has its own interval. If you want to do repeat testing, you'd better to give a smaller interval.

Alert is for notifying system administrators. Alarm is for notifying business managers. SuperLogging provides an alert( ) method to send notification emails. You can call it from your EJBs or JSPs in case you need your administrator attention. SuperLogging also provides alarm methods to send notification emails as well. You can call it from your EJBs or JSPs in case you need business managers attention. 

This is the end of our short side tour.