Notifying staff of equipment inactivity
If there is no communication with the controlled equipment (or vice versa - when it is restored), it is possible to use an automatic system of notification of employees by means of e-mail and/or SMS.
To do this, you should:
- in the section "Settings - Notifications - E-mail" section, check the sending/delivery of mail using the link "Sending test".
If you plan to send SMS - you need to make sure under "Settings - Notifications - SMS" that messages are sent/received.
- on the "Personnel - Staff" page, for each account, the required employee, enter the email/telephone address and enter the given values in the "Phone"/"E-mail" fields.
- on the same page "Personnel - Staff - Notifications" for each employee account, tick the required checkboxes "Informing about equipment inactivity - SMS" / "Informing about equipment inactivity - E-mail".
- in the card of each managed Switch - when editing it - you can tick whether to send e-mail / SMS notifications when this device is inactive.
- "Settings - Scheduler", add a task "Alarm on loss of communication with the equipment (E-mail)" and/or "Alarm on loss of communication with the equipment (SMS)" and assign it/they to start every minute.
This way when activity/inactivity events occur on the specified devices - messages will be sent out to the specified employees using the selected method.
We will separately mention the usm_observer module, which allows more flexible querying of customisable hardware parameters and in which employee event notifications are configured in more detail.
Starting from version 3.18:
Scheduler tasks to notify you when communication with equipment is lost - sends messages based on geographic availability.