Configure Email or Syslog Notifications to Monitor the Service

Notifications such as email or syslog can be configured to monitor the Cloud Link Service. You will be notified when the following events occur:

  • Cloud Link Service goes offline.
  • Offline Cloud Link Service is back online.
  • Cloud Link Service CPU, memory, or disk storage thresholds are exceeded.

Note

You must install the New Health and Wellness to add the required notification. For more information, see

New Health and Wellness.

Notifications can be set up on the NetWitness Platform user interface by configuring the output, server settings, and notification. This is the notification type, namely email and syslog. When you set up a notification, you must specify the notification output for an alert.

Configure email or syslog as a notification

  1. Go to admin icon Admin > System.

  2. In the options panel, select Global Notifications.

    The Notifications configuration panel is displayed with the Output tab open.

    how to configure email or syslog notification as a notification

  3. On the Output tab, from the drop-down menu, select Email or Syslog.

    The following is an example of email notification:

    the dialog box for email notification

  4. In the Define Email Notification dialog, provide the required information and click Save.

Configure email or syslog settings as a notification server

This is the source of the notifications and must be configured to specify the email server or syslog server settings.

  1. Go to Admin > System.

  2. In the options panel, select Global Notifications.

    The Notifications configuration panel is displayed with the Output tab open.

  3. Click the Servers tab.

    configure email or syslog settings as a notification

  4. From the drop-down menu, select Email or Syslog.

    The following is an example for email server:

    how to configure the email server

  5. In the Define Email Notification Server dialog, provide the required information and click Save.

Add a email or syslog notification

  1. Go to admin icon Admin > Health & Wellness.

  2. Click New Health & Wellness.

  3. Click View Notifications Settings.

  4. Specify the following:

    • Output Type: Select the Notification type as Email or Syslog.
    • Recipient: Select the recipient based on the output type selected.
    • Notification Server: Select the notification server that will send the notification.
    • Template: Notification template as Email or Syslog.

  5. If you want to add another notification, click Add Condition and repeat step 4.

Note

You can specify a maximum of four conditions in the notification settings.

  1. Click Save.

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