Enable specific alerts

Help | V-Series Appliance | Version 8.0.x

The appliance can send traps for each of its modules: Appliance Controller, Content Gateway, TRITON AP-WEB, Network Agent, and TRITON AP-EMAIL. The Alerts tab of the Configuration > Alerting page lists the alerts associated with only the modules that you have enabled.

A table for each module lists:

The hardware or software Event that triggers the alert (for example, a network interface link going down or coming up, or a Websense service stopping).

The Threshold, if applicable, that defines the alert condition (for example, CPU usage exceeding 90%, or free disk space reaching less than 10% of the total disk size).

The Type of alert (system resource or operational event).

Whether or not an SNMP trap is sent when the event occurs or the threshold is reached.

To enable all alerts for a module, select the check box next to SNMP in the table header. All check boxes in the column are selected.

Otherwise, mark the check box next to an event name to enable SNMP alerts for that event. To disable alerts for an event, clear the associated check box.

Time-based thresholds: Most of the events that have a configurable threshold also have a configurable time-based threshold, specified in minutes. When the time-based threshold is set and both thresholds are exceeded, an alert is sent. To enable time-based thresholds, select the Enable time-based thresholds check box at the top of the page. The time-based threshold is enabled on every event for which it is configurable.

Event-cleared alerts: In addition to generating event condition alerts, you can configure alerts to be sent when conditions return below the threshold. These are called event-cleared alerts. To enable event-cleared alerts, select the Generate event-cleared alerts check box at the top of the page.

The following events do not generate event-cleared alerts:

Hostname change

IP address change

Scheduled backup failure

SNMP authentication failure

When you have finished configuring alerts, click OK to implement the changes.