Defining a Change Notification

Change notifications inform NetMRI administrators about configuration changes and device status changes that take place on the network.

NetMRI also provides the ability to prevent excessive Config Change notifications based on changes in volatile or transient configuration data changes that bear little or no significance in device operation or device management, such as admin password changes.

Filtering of such notifications occurs automatically without user intervention. You can also use an Advanced Setting to specify a list of user accounts that NetMRI can “ignore” when those users commit configuration changes that would otherwise be reported. (For information, see Filtering Change Notifications from User Accounts.)

To define a Change notification, do the following:

1. Click the Settings icon > Notifications > Subscriptions to begin creating notifications.
2. Click Add Notification.
3. In the Category drop-down menu, choose Change.
4. In the Change Types section, select one out of six choices (or Ctrl+click to select more than one):

• • All: all types;
  • Admin: changes to the actual configuration files on the device(s);
  • External: changes to the devices in the notification that are carried out by an external source, such as a change to the DNS record on a device;
  • Hardware: Notification of a change in a device’s hardware configuration, such as the removal or addition of a network module or line card;
  • Software: notification of a change in the device’s software/OS version.

5. Choose the Method by which admins will receive Job notifications: Email, SNMP Trap, or Syslog.

• • For Email: select the To Users to receive the notification. (An administrator can send notifications to anyone. Non-administrative users can send notifications only to themselves.)

  • Specify additional To email address(es) if needed. Separate multiple e-mail addresses by commas.

    Note

    Email notifications also require the correct SMTP servers to be configured in the appliance to support sending the notifications to their destinations. For information, see Setting Notification Defaults.

• • If necessary, click Edit Schedule to specify a schedule for the summary email notification, or deactivate the Summarize checkbox to receive all notifications for each individual system alert.
    The Summarize checkbox sends a digest email of the system alerts for the selected category, providing a way to reduce email quantities sent to administrators’ inboxes.
  • To manage notification email settings in more detail: click the Advanced Settings button to override default settings for sender information, message type, message subject, message content, and details. For information, see Notification Content and Formatting.
  • For SNMP Trap: override the default Server(s) by entering a new IP address.
  • For Syslog: If necessary, override the default Server(s) and Message. See the Notification Content and Formatting topic for information about placeholder variables.

6. Click Save.