Security Alert Settings
This chapter describes the different methods available to notify administrators of alerts that occur on the storage system.
Topics include:
Alert settings
Storage system alerts inform administrators of actionable events that occur on the storage system. Storage system events can be reported as shown in Table 1.
Alert type
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Description
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Visual notification
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Displays informational pop-up messages when users log in to the interface and in real-time to indicate when alert conditions occur. Pop-ups provide basic information about the alert condition. You can obtain additional information from the
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Email notification
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Enables you to specify one or more email addresses to which to send alert messages. You can configure the following settings:
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SNMP traps
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Transfer alert information to designated hosts (trap destinations) that act as repositories for generated alert information by the storage network system. You can configure SNMP traps through Unisphere. Settings include:
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EMC Secure Remote Services (ESRS)
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ESRS provides an IP-based connection that enables EMC Support to receive error files and alert messages from your storage system, and to perform remote troubleshooting resulting in a fast and efficient time to resolution.
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Configuring alert settings
You can configure storage system alert settings for email notifications and SNMP traps from the storage system.
Configure alert settings for email notifications
Procedure
- Select .
- In the Specify Email Alerts and SMTP Configuration section under Send email Alerts to the following email list, configure the email addresses to which to send alert notifications.
- Under Severity level of alerts to send:, configure the severity level at which alert email messages are generated to one of the following:
- Critical
- Error and Above
- Warning and Above
- Notice and Above
- Information and Above
Note: For the storage system alert email mechanism to work, a target SMTP server must be configured for the storage system. - Under Specify SMTP network settings:, configure the target SMTP server.
Configure alert settings for SNMP traps
Procedure
- Select .
- In the Manage SNMP Alerts section under Send alerts through SNMP traps to these destinations:, configure the following information for the SNMP trap destinations:
- Network name or IP address
- Authentication protocol to use
- Privacy protocol to use
- Version of SNMP to use
- Community string (applicable to v2c SNMP only)
- Under Severity level of alerts to send:, configure the severity level at which SNMP traps are generated to one of the following:
- Critical
- Error and above
- Warning and above
- Notice and above
- Information and above