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streaker69
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 Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: Centralized Alarm Logger |
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N3ncy and I were talking today about the Alarm generation in Cacti and we both agree that something needs to be done to centralize the way Cacti sends out Email alerts. It seems as though every single plugin out there wants to send out it's own Email with it's alerts.
What would be good is if there could be a standard way that plugins format their alerts, pass them along to an Alert database, and then Cacti core sends the emails.
This has several advantages, as it would create a searchable log of Alarms (much like SCADA/HMI systems). Everyone who writes plugins could just hook it into the core and not have to send out emails themselves. Plus it would be a great help for a certain plugin that I know N3ncy is working on. |
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Howie
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:21 am Post subject: |
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In the roadmap for 0.8.8 there is:
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* Event management sub system
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I've always assumed that was what you are talking about. Could be wrong though  |
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streaker69
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:31 am Post subject: |
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| Howie wrote: | In the roadmap for 0.8.8 there is:
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* Event management sub system
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I've always assumed that was what you are talking about. Could be wrong though |
Ok, I missed that in the roadmap.
To the Dev's if that's what the Eventlogger is going to be, if you need ideas on how SCADA/HMI's deal with it, let me know. I can get you screen shots of configurations and how the databases is formatted and such. |
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Howie
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:16 am Post subject: |
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| Equally, having the 'alert method' be a pluginable (?) thing - so that I can write a plugin to feed alerts into something else (SMS, our own database or event correlation stuff) would be handy too. |
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streaker69
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Howie wrote: | | Equally, having the 'alert method' be a pluginable (?) thing - so that I can write a plugin to feed alerts into something else (SMS, our own database or event correlation stuff) would be handy too. |
That's exactly what I'm thinking about. The HMI system that we use at our plant has about a dozen different methods of displaying/notifying alarms. But all the alarms a fed into a central database, and from there there's a filter system that determines which alarms are emailed, which are just displayed and so forth.
There's also a central alarm log that displays the most recent list of alarms, they can then be ack'ed and notes can be added to each one. |
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