# Using the Notification Manager

Note: You cannot use the Notification Manager in startable-CD mode or when using the ServeRAID Manager as a plug-in application.

The Notification Manager is a tool that you can use to notify other systems running the ServeRAID Manager of all events that occur on this (that is, the local) system. The user of the system types system names in the notification list. Each system in the list is notified of all events that occur on the local system.

You can use the Notification Manager to:

- Add a system to the notification list
- Delete a system from the notification list
- Modify system properties in the notification list
- Send a test event to a system in the notification list
- Monitor events sent from the Notification Manager

The Notification Manager is enabled by default. To disable the Notification Manager, click Actions Disable notifications. If you disable the Notification Manager, the ServeRAID events are generated, but not dispatched to remote systems.

## An example

You install SystemA in a lab with a ServeRAID subsystem. You run the ServeRAID Manager on SystemA to monitor for events and problems, but you want to monitor from your workstation and not from SystemA. You open the SystemA Notification Manager from the ServeRAID Manager and define your workstation in the notification list. When running the ServeRAID Manager from your workstation, you are notified of all problems and events that occur on SystemA.

Note: You can use the Email Notification Manager to notify users of events by email. This allows you to notify users who have not installed or are not currently running ServeRAID Manager.

## The Notification Manager and its events

Events generated by the Notification Manager include the following:

- Progress information, such as rebuilds, synchronizations, and migrations.
- Problems, such as defunct physical drives and PFA errors.
- Changes to the local configuration, such as creating a hot-spare drive or defining a logical drive.

When an event is generated on a system, the Notification Manager connects with each system in the notification list and relays the event to these systems' ServeRAID Manager. If the Notification Manager successfully connects and sends the event, the notification list updates its "Last event sent" column. If the Notification Manager does not successfully connect or send the event, the Notification Manager:

- Updates the "Last event sent" column with a notifying you of a problem.
- Logs an event in the Notification Manager event viewer detailing why the event could not be sent.

## The Notification Manager interface

The Notification Manager consists of the following:

Toolbar
  Provides quick-path icons for common tasks.
Notification list
  Displays the remote systems configured to receive event notification.
Notification event viewer
  Displays status information for the Notification Manager.

  In addition to displaying the events in the event viewer, the Notification Manager appends each event to a logging file, RAIDNOT.LOG. If this file exceeds 200 KB, the Manager copies the file to RAIDNOT.OLD and creates a new RAIDNOT.LOG. If there is a RAIDNOT.OLD already, the Manager overwrites it.

## More information

- Adding a system to the notification list
- Deleting a system from the notification list
- Modifying system properties in the notification list
- Sending a test event to a system in the notification list
- Monitoring events sent from the Notification Manager
- The Notification Manager menubar
- The Notification Manager toolbar
- Using the Email Notification Manager
- Using the ServeRAID Manager agent

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