Dot Hill Systems SANnet II 200 - Manual (Page 22)

Event Reporting
You can use Dot Hill’s SANscape to run as a background service to report events to specified
email addresses. Using SANscape, you can:
· Define the types of message traps sent
· Define the timing of messages sent
· Send encrypted messages
· Receive messages and decrypt encrypted messages on the Mail Receiver Tool
To use SANscape throughout the network, install it as a service on each computer that has a
SANscape agent running (an agent is the software that communicates to attached SANnet II 200
SCSI arrays).
One major benefit of installing SANscape on all host computers is that it can be configured to
ping each computer periodically, and to send a single-point-of-failure message from a SANscape
agent to the specified email addresses when a host fails. SANscape includes the following
components:
· SANscape Agent (daemon) – operates in background mode continuously on the
computer where it is installed. The daemon can be installed and used on any computer
where SANscape is running.
· SANscape Config Tool (UI) – a utility that configures the types of message traps that
are sent to the SANscape Agent and that are sent to a specific email address as an alert
or for informational purposes. Also known as the user interface (UI).
· SANscape Mail Receiver Tool – displays the messages that are collected. Also known
as the POP3 Mail Receiver.
FIGURE 16: Typical Diagnostic Service and SANscape Setup
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