Sending and Receiving Alerts

Sending Customized Alerts

You can use the scadm send_event -c command from the system console to send a customized critical alert at any time. You can do this directly at the superuser prompt, or you can create a script that runs and sends the alert under special circumstances.

There are three levels of alerts:

Receiving Alerts

If you are at the sc> prompt, you will receive alert messages from ALOM when it detects a major-level or critical-level event. This can happen while you are typing ALOM commands. If this happens, press Return and retype the command. For example:

sc> cons

MAJOR: Fan1 Faulty

sc> console