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Use this option to change alert management settings as shown below:

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Mail mode (TEXT/HTML)

Alerts are by default sent in HTML format. With some mail clients, HTML mails are not correctly displayed or even rejected. This option is used to switch between HTML format and pure TEXT format.

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HTML mail example:

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TEXT mail example:

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Mail recipients list

All alerts coming from monitoring scripts and checks scripts are sent using a common alert script that sends emails (via "sendmail") to the recipients list that can be defined using this option.

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(lightbulb) HTML tags like new line, font and bold can be added within the file. In case the format is switched to TEXT, these tags will be automatically removed from the text mail.

Example:

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Enable/disable wall alert messages

This option enables or disables (default) the "wall" messages sent via the alert script.

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Update/reinstall common alert script

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  • Answer "yes" if you did not change the original script file and you have updated the Linux Toolkit (read the corresponding release notes)
  • Do not answer "yes" if you customized your own alert script.
    (lightbulb) In case you've overwritten the existing alert script, the previous version can be restored from the "/charon/archive" folder

Example:

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(info) This script can be customized to send alerts the way you want, adding for example commands to link with your monitoring tool. It is based on an alert code passed as parameter 1.

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Parameter 1 can have the following values:

Parameter 1SeverityDescription
ABORTEDCRITICALGuest has stopped without user or service request

AKSUSBFAIL

CRITICAL

If the dongle is detected as removed whereas it is disconnected, the askusb daemons are restarted. If the restart fails after 15 tries, this message is sent

BOOTDUPL

WARNING

Tried to start a guest that is already running or a guest is found more than once in the guests list

BOOTNOTFND

CRITICAL

The file containing the guests to start is empty or not found

EMULSTART

INFORMATIONAL

Emulator has been started

EXPCHK

CRITICAL, MAJOR, MINOR, INFORMATION

The license is about to expire

FOUND

INFORMATIONAL

License dongle found at startup

HASPWARN

CRITICAL

Warning messages found in the license, guests cannot start

IFCFGADDRCRITICALThe network interface defined in the configuration has already an assigned IP address, cannot be used for guest
IFCFGCRITCRITICALOne parameter in the ifcfg-ethN file is not configured correctly (mandatory value)
IFCFGUNKNCRITICALThe interface name defined in the configuration file is not valid (not found with 'ifconfig <eth>' command)
IFCFGWARNWARNINGOne parameter in the ifcfg-ethN file is not configured correctly (recommended value)

INVALID

CRITICAL

Invalid configuration on dongle to start the guest

NOTFOUND

CRITICAL

The guests have not been able to start at boot due to dongle disconnected

REMOVED

CRITICAL

Dongle has been removed: the guest sees the dongle as disconnected and will stop after the defined interval if the dongle is not replaced

REMOVRESET

ERROR

Dongle seen as removed whereas not disconnected (aksusb driver failure). In this case the USB is reset and drivers are restarted ((warning) Not valid if the dongle is a network dongle and then located on another server)

STOPPED

CRITICAL

Guest has been stopped, reasons explained in parameters 4, 5 and 6

STOPPEDREQINFORMATIONALGuest has been stopped, requested by user or shutdown
TESTMAILINFORMATIONALUsed to test email mode when setting HTML or pure TEXT

TOEXIT

CRITICAL

The guest is about to exit, reasons explained in parameters 4 and 5

USBDISCONNECT

MAJOR

Dongle has been removed (immediate detection)

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Select the alert level to send alerts when events are found in the guest log file:

LevelInformationWarningError
0(error)(error)(error)
1(tick)(tick)(tick)
2(error)(tick)(tick)
3(error)(error)(tick)

(blue star) Requires the "charon_logevent" entry activated in the "crontab" file => menu option "Manage recursive jobs: license expiration check, log events (cron)"

(info) This does not affect guest startup alerts. You will receive alerts when a guest starts or stop whatever the level is.

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View alerts history

This option will allow you is used to view the alerts history sent via the alert script. Alerts can be viewed in a continuous way or using a text editor.

Example - Continuous view:

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We can see above:

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(lightbulb) Press CTRL-C to get back to the previous menu

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License expiration alerts from guests

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(warning) Backup licenses (time limited): please take care of the time remaining that will be reported in the license detection alert, if the number of remaining hours is less than 24, you could not receive any alert from the license expiration check that runs everyday at 09:00 AM by default. It is possible to make it run more than once a day in this case.

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Alerts simulator

This option will allow allows you to send all the available alerts for teststesting:

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Hardware specs warning message Enabled

Enable or disable hardware specifications warning messages to be sent on Charon boot. Depending on Charon version, wrong messages can be sent. This this option prevents from sending warning alerts in case harwdare specifications warning messages are displayed in the log file.

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Immediate alert on dongle removal Enabled

Enable or disable immediate alert on dongle removal. These alerts are monitored by the aksusbd log monitoring which is totally independent from the Charon virtual machine log files monitoring.

Since Charon version V4.9, the license communications are checked more often than they were in previous versions.

This option, if disabled, prevents from sending too many alerts in case of dongle removal and re-connection but be aware that if no Charon virtual machine is running, the removal and re-connection will not generate any alert.

Reduce WARN msgs on dongle removal

This option is valid for Charon-AXP and Charon-VAX V4.9 and above.

If enabled, it will prevent from sending too many alerts on dongle removal thus the following messages will not generate an alert:

  • :0000024D:licenseman(1830): Unable to log in to the key "XXXXXXXX", feature X.
  • :0000024D:licenseman(1830): HASP runtime (7): Sentinel protection key not available.
  • :0000024D:licenseman(1830): Failed to login at the Sentinel HASP key: "XXXXXXXX".

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