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  3. Section IV. End user
  4. Alert configuration
  5. Adding an Alert Notification Delivery Method

Adding an Alert Notification Delivery Method

  1. Select Alerts>Alert Configuration>Alert Notification.

  2. Click Add.

  3. Enter a Name and Description.

  4. Select the delivery method for the alert. Choose from:

    • Email: Enter a valid email address. This can be a comma-separated list of email addresses. One email is sent for entire report.

    • SNMP Trap: When you check this box choose V2 or V3. Entry fields change based on your selection.

      • For V2, enter the Server Name, Port, and Community. One alert will be sent for each row.

      • For V3, enter the Server Name, Port, Security Name and select a Security Level

    SNMP Trap V2 Field Descriptions

    SNMP Trap V3 Field Descriptions

    Server: Enter the IP address of the server which will be used to receive trap.

    Server: Enter the IP address of the server which will be used to receive trap.

    Port: Port on which SNMP server is running.

    Port: Port on which SNMP server is running.

    Community: A type of shared password between the portal and the SNMP server, which is used to authenticate the portal.

    SNMP Engine ID - The Engine ID is used by SNMPv3 entities to uniquely identify them.

     

    Security Name: A unique name and similar to username for authentication. This Security Name is used during the creation of users in the SNMP server:

    For example: if the Security Name is "demo_user", use following command to create a user:

    createUser -e
    0x8000137001a9fe97108f0f4f2f demo_user
    MD5 demo_password DES demo_password

    where:

    0x8000137001a9fe97108f0f4f2f = engineId
    demo_user = security name
     

    Security Level:

    • None

    • Authentication: Provide authentication protocol and authentication passphrase

    • Authentication & Privacy: Provide authentication protocol, authentication passphrase and privacy protocol and privacy Passphrase.

    • Execute Script: The user-created script must reside in: /opt/aptare/portal/user_script. Check the box and enter a shell script name (Linux). If a path name is included, it will be appended to the above path. For example, when the alert is triggered.

    • Syslog: Select this and then attach a Syslog configuration from the list that must perform the alert notification. The list is populated provided a configuration is added under Syslog Configuration for the domain.

      Syslog configuration

    • Webhook: Select the webhook configuration that you want to use for the alert notification. This list is populated with the webhooks configured under Admin > Advanced > Webhook.

  5. Optionally, click Test to trigger the action and validate the delivery.

  6. Click Save.

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