Setting a server notification

Notifications can be set for the following events:

• Excessive disk space usage (Replicate servers only)
• Excessive memory usage (Replicate servers only)
• State changes/errors (Replicate and Compose servers)

To set a server notification:

1. Click the toolbar button on the right of the console.

   The Notification Rules window opens.

2. Click the Servers tab and then click New.

   The New Server Notification wizard opens.

3. Provide a name for the notification.

4. Select and define one of the following:

   In the Disk Space section, you can determine the disk usage event that triggers the notification.

   Select one of the following:

   • Disk usage reaches the high threshold: The notification will be triggered when disk usage reaches the percentage defined for the high threshold.
   • Disk usage reaches the critical threshold: The notification will be triggered when disk usage reaches the percentage defined for the critical threshold.
   • Disk usage returns to normal: The notification will be triggered when disk usage returns to normal percentage (i.e. not high or critical).
   • Disk usage reaches any of the defined thresholds or returns to normal: The notification will be triggered in any of the following scenarios:
     • Disk usage increases from normal to the high threshold
     • Disk usage increases from normal to the critical threshold
     • Disk usage increases from the high threshold to the critical threshold
     • Disk usage returns to normal from the high threshold
     • Disk usage returns to normal from the critical threshold
     • Disk usage returns to the high threshold from the critical threshold

   In the System Memory section, you can determine the system memory usage event that triggers the notification.

   Select one of the following:

   • System memory usage reaches the high threshold: The notification will be triggered when system memory usage reaches the percentage defined for the high threshold.
   • System memory usage reaches the critical threshold: The notification will be triggered when system memory usage reaches the percentage defined for the critical threshold.
   • System memory usage returns to normal: The notification will be triggered when system memory usage returns to normal percentage (i.e. not high or critical).
   • System memory usage reaches any of the defined thresholds or returns to normal: The notification will be triggered in any of the following scenarios:
     • System memory usage increases from normal to the high threshold
     • System memory usage increases from normal to the critical threshold
     • System memory usage increases from the high threshold to the critical threshold
     • System memory usage returns to normal from the high threshold
     • System memory usage returns to normal from the critical threshold

     • System memory usage returns to the high threshold from the critical threshold

   In the State/Errors section, select the Server state has changed notification to receive a notification whenever any of the following occurs:

   • Enterprise Manager starts monitoring a Compose/Replicate server
   • Enterprise Manager stops monitoring a Compose/Replicate server
   • A connection error to any of the monitored Compose/Replicate servers occurs

5. Click Next.

   The Recipients screen is displayed.

6. Notifications will always be displayed in the Message Center. If you also want the notification to sent to the Windows Event Log and/or specified Email Recipients, select their respective check boxes.

   For more information about Windows Event Log IDs, see Replicate Event IDs in Windows Event Log

   If you selected Email Recipients, specify a list of email recipients (separated by semi-colons) in the To, Cc and/or Bcc fields.

   Information note

   Sending notifications to email recipients requires your organization's outgoing mail server settings to be defined.

7. Click Next.

   The Message screen displays a default email subject and email/Windows Event Log message for the selected notification. You can change the default subject and/or message and make use of any of the variables listed to the right of the message.

   Information note

   The message shown in the Message Center is system generated and cannot be edited.

8. Click Finish to add the notification to Enterprise Manager.

   A summary of the notification settings will be displayed in the Servers tab in the Notification Rules window.

   Information note

   New notifications are always created as enabled and are active immediately without any need to stop/start monitoring servers.

Server notification variables

In addition to allowing you to edit the default messages, the Message window also provides a list of variables that you can insert into the notification message. These are described in the table below.

To insert a variable:

1. Select the desired variable.
2. Place the cursor in the message where you want the variable to be inserted.
3. Click the arrow to the left of the variable list.