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Chapter 5

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Configuring ITO

Flexible-management Configuration

This is also used to escalate messages from one manager to another.

• MSGTARGETMANAGER

Management server to which you forward a message.

NOTE

Always specify the IP address of the target management server as

0.0.0.0

. The real IP address is then resolved by the domain name

service (DNS).

• TIMETEMPLATE

The name of the corresponding time template. You can use the
variable

$OPC_ALWAYS

if the time condition is always true. When

you use this keyword, message transfer to the target manager will
not depend on the time.

• OPCMGR

The node name of the ITO Manager. You can use the keyword,

$OPC_PRIMARY_MGR

to denote that this will always be the

primary manager.

• MSGCONTROLLINGMGR

Attribute of a message target manager enabling it to switch
control of a message.

• NOTIFYMGR

Attribute of a message target manager enabling it to notify itself.
This is set by default if no attribute is defined for the message
target manager.

• ACKNONLOCALMGR

Attribute for a message rule to force a direct acknowledgment of a
notification message on a source management server.

❏ MSGTARGETRULECONDS

• MSGTARGETRULECOND

These conditions tell the agent to which management server to
send specific messages, based on message attributes and/or time.
The message agent evaluates the message target conditions by
reading the file

mgrconf

. If the

mgrconf

file does not exist, the