Enabling email alerts or a remote syslog server for the Aggregation Server

You can configure the Aggregation Server for Extended Reporting to send notifications by email or to a remote logging server, but the supporting services (mail server and remote logging) must be configured and enabled first. For email notification, you can choose to send messages every time or only when there is a failure to report.  

• • Remote system logging
  • Email alerts
  • Before you begin
  • To enable or disable remote system logging
  • To enable or disable system alerts

Remote system logging

The Aggregation Server can send messages about its status to a remote log collector (often referred to as a syslog server). The Aggregation Server associates a level of severity with each log message, which allows you to filter out messages you consider unimportant. 

Log message severity levels

When configured, the Aggregation Server sends all messages of greater or equal severity to the remote log collector. For example, if you select Critical, the Aggregation Server sends Critical, Alert, and Emergency messages to a log collector.

Email alerts

The Alerting feature can send email messages about data flow from data providers and the status of this device. It retransmits the alert every hour until the failure condition has been corrected. For this feature to work, you must also  connect the Aggregation Server to a mail server (SMTP).

Before you begin

1. Log on to the Aggregation Server for Extended Reporting web interface.
2. Click Alerting & remote logging (syslog) in the General Settings section.

To enable or disable remote system logging

1. In the Syslog remote logging section, on the Action menu, click Edit.
   1.  Select a minimum log message severity level.
   2. Type the IP address or host name of your remote log collector in the Remote recipient box.
   3. IP addresses can be in IPv4 dot-decimal notation (for example, 10.10.160.1).
2. Click Save.
3. To enable or disable remote logging, click ON or OFF. 
4. If you want to restore remote logging settings back to the factory default, on the Action menu, click Reset and then click OK.

To enable or disable system alerts

1. In the Alerting section, on the Action menu, click Edit.
2. Type the recipients' email addresses in the Email addresses box, using commas to separate the addresses, and click Save.
3. To enable or disable system alerts, click ON or OFF. 
4. Connect the Aggregation Server to a mail server (SMTP).