Notification system

As we saw in the earlier sections, Enterprise Manager collects monitoring and configuration information round-the-clock, and schedules the job at a specified time. All of these activities continue to happen even when nobody is actively looking at Enterprise Manager. Whenever required, System Administrators can see the history of metric alert, policy violation or job results. But there are some alerts, policy violations, or job results that need immediate attention. Enterprise Manager provides notification framework, and by using this, notifications for alerts, policy violations, and job failures can be sent out.

Major building blocks of Notification system are:

• Notification Methods

  Enterprise Manager provides support for various notification methods that include SNMP trap, emails, and so on. Enterprise Manager console provides an interface for configuring the notification methods. For example, console provides an interface to configure SNMP notifications, where the user...