6. Failure Management

When a failure occurs on a host, the details of the failure are sent as an alert to the manager service. Alerts can be viewed from the console service, emailed to the system administrator, and reported to the SNMP manager. This chapter describes these failure management functions.

Organization of this chapter

6.1 Overview

6.2 Displaying error information

6.3 Sending alerts by email

6.4 Starting a program automatically when an alert is received

6.5 Sending alerts to other programs

6.6 Recording alerts in log files

6.7 Setting an action at a server in the event of an alert

6.8 Filtering alert notifications

6.9 Reading and saving alert attribute settings