About Email Alerts

Email alerts are available only to servers that have the SUNWsamfsr and SUNWsamfsu packages installed locally.

The Email Alerts system informs a user of certain events or conditions by generating a message and sending it to the user’s email address.

You can configure the SAM-QFS Manager software to automatically send email notifications to recipients when certain events occur. When you create a notification, you must provide an email address for the intended recipient of the notification. Every event that triggers a notification, except for the file system overflow event, applies to archiving file systems.

The ’root’ user is the default subscriber for all email alerts.

If the error condition persists, a repeat email is sent every two hours. This prevents flooding the recipient’s mailbox with emails sent repeatedly for the same error condition.

You can set up the system so that one or more of the events described in the following table triggers a notification.

Table 78 Events

Event

Description

Library or Drive is Down

One or more devices are unusable by the file system.

Archiving is Interrupted

The software is unable to complete archiving operations. An email message is sent if the archiver is interrupted for any of the following reasons:

  • No volumes that are associated with the policy are available.

  • A file being archived is too large for volume overflow on the remaining volumes that are associated with the policy.

  • A file being archived is too large for any remaining volume that is associated with the policy.

  • Joined files being archived are too large for any remaining volume that is associated with the policy.

Requested Volume is Unavailable

Media devices need to be imported or manually loaded to support archiving or staging.

Recycling is Complete

The recycler has identified one or more tape volumes that contain large proportions of expired archive copies. The recycler has finished removing the expired copies from the volumes. You can now either export or relabel the tape volume.

Recovery Points Error

Recovery Points Warning

The creation of a recovery point for a file system was interrupted. An email message is sent if the recovery point fails or if the software attempts to run a disaster recovery script before creating the recovery point and the software encounters any of the following conditions:

  • It cannot find the specified script.

  • The script does not contain any content.

  • The script does not have root executable permissions.

  • The file system for which a recovery point is scheduled is not mounted.

  • The recovery point file itself does not contain any content.

  • The recovery point file size is truncated. This occurs when the percentage of content change in the current recovery point is less than 10 percent, when compared against the three previous recovery points.

  • The compression or indexing of the recovery point file fails.

No Space Available on File System

The file system is full. There is no space available for storage use.

File System Exceeds its High Water Mark

The software has detected that the space consumed by the file system exceeds the high water mark setting.


Note - If you have the SUNWsamfsr and SUNWsamfsu packages installed locally on a server, and you wish to enable notifications through the browser interface, be aware that the software automatically defines the following value in the notify=filename directive of the archiver.cmd file:

/etc/opt/SUNWsamfs/scripts/archiver.sh


If you manually change this value, the browser interface cannot send archiver-related notifications.