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the results should be shown ina graph, an error log, or both.Then click Generate report at the bottom
of the page. If no data exist for the probe’s metrics, you are presented with a message indicating No
time series data found for specified time period.
6.9.2. Notification —
Identifies the contact methods that have been established foryour organization. These methods contain
email or pager addresses designated to receive alerts from probes.
These methods are created within the Notification Methods tab of the User Details page. To see this
tab, the user must first be granted the Monitoring Administrator or Organization Administrator role.
Clicking the name of the contact method opens it for editing. Refer to Section 6.8.2.2 User Details —
for instructions.
6.9.3. Scout Config Push —
Displays the status of your monitoring infrastructure. Anytime you make a change to your monitoring
configuration, such as adding a probe to a systemor editing a probe’s thresholds, you must reconfigure
your monitoring infrastructure. Do this by selecting the RHN Server’s checkbox and clicking Push
Scout Configs. The table on this page identifies the date and time of requested and completed pushes.
Clicking the name of the server opens its RHNMD SSH Public Key.
6.9.4. General Config —
Collects information that is universally applicable to your Monitoring infrastructure. The most impor-
tant option available on thispage in times ofcrisis is the Silence AllNotifications checkbox. Selecting
this will temporarily filter, or suspend, all notifications generated by your Monitoring infrastructure.
Uncheck the box when you wish to resume notifications.
Modifying anything on this page will cause the Monitoring services on the RHN Satellite Server to
reset, as well as schedule actions for the Monitoring services on all Monitoring-enabled RHN Proxy
Servers that connect to this Satellite to be restarted. This is done so that the Monitoring services on
these servers will reload their configuration immediately.
Typically, the defaults provided in other fields will do, since they were derived from your Satellite
installation. Nevertheless, you may use the fields on this page to alter your Monitoring configuration.
For instance, you may change your mail exchange server here. This page also allows you to alter the
destination of all administrative emails from the Satellite. When finished, click Update Config.
