All Avamar
system activity and operational status is reported as events to the MCS. Examples
of Avamar events include client registration and activation, successful and failed
backups, and hard disk status, power supply failure, Any kind of activity failed/successful.
When any kind
of event occurred, following
features will generates: -
Pop-up alerts: -
You can
configure individual events to generate a graphical pop-up alert each time the event
occurs.
Acknowledgement required list: -
You can
specify that when a certain event type occurs, the Avamar system administrator must
acknowledge the event.
Email Messages: -
You can
specify that when a certain event type occurs, an email message is sent to a selected
list of recipients. Email notifications can be sent immediately or in batches
at scheduled times.
Syslog Support: -
You can
specify that when an event type occurs, Avamar logs information to local or remote
syslog files based on filtering rules configured for the syslog daemon that receives
the events.
Third-party
monitoring tools and utilities capable of examining log entries can access the
syslog files and process them to integrate Avamar event information into larger
site activity and status reports.
SNMP Support: -
The Avamar
SNMP implementation provides two ways to access Avamar server events and
activity completion status:
SNMP requests
provide a mechanism for SNMP management applications to “pull” information from
a remote SNMP-enabled client (in this case, the Avamar server).
SNMP traps
provide a mechanism for the Avamar server to “push” information to SNMP
management applications whenever designated Avamar events occur. You can
configure an event type to output
SNMP traps.
Event Profiles: -
Profiles are
a notification management feature that are used to logically group certain
event codes
together and specify which notifications to generate when the events occur.
There are two
basic types of event profiles:
System
profile — There is only one system event profile. It contains all possible
system event
codes.
Custom
profiles — You can create as many custom profiles as you need to
organize system events and
generate notifications when any of those events occur.
Profile Catalog: -
The Avamar
system contains a set of preconfigured event profiles by default.
System Profile: -
There is only
one system event profile. It contains all possible system event codes.
Evaluation Profile: -
If this
profile enabled, this profile generates an email notification and attaches two
weeks’ worth of
Activities - DPN Summary report
information to the email message.
High Priority Events Profile:-
This special
event profile automatically emails the following information to EMC Customer
Support (emailhome@avamar.com) twice daily:
Status of the
daily data integrity check
Selected
Avamar server warnings and information messages
l Any
Avamar server errors
The High
Priority Events profile is enabled by default. The only change you can make to
the High Priority Events profile is to add email addresses to the Recipient
Email List. If you require custom High Priority Events profile settings, copy
the profile and then edit the copy. We will see in next article.
Local SNMP Trap Profile: -
The profile
enables you to verify that traps are successfully generated and received by the
local snmptrapd process, which then writes the trap information to a syslog
file. The Local SNMP Trap profile is read-only and is intended to be used for
test purposes
only.
Local Syslog Profile: -
The Local
Syslog profile reports status by way of the local syslogd process on the Avamar
server.
Note: - for more information you should check EMC
site and admin documents.
