Switched PDU Notification Settings

Anonymous user · ‎2021-06-28

I have an installed base of 176 AP7901 & AP7911 PDUs in my datacenter. I have written a script to do most of the management of these devices including uploading and downloading a common config.ini. There are some config options that show in the web interface but are not in in the config file, namely the notification settings. I would like to share common notification settings between all the devices. As it looks right now, I would have to "touch" every device and make the changes. This is very annoying to do.

Are there any programs out there that can upload the notification configs to all the PDUs without having to login to each one and change them? I am interested in turning off some alerts and changing the notification delays, repeats and times that a notification is sent to the SNMP server.

Thanks.

BillP · ‎2021-06-28

the notification settings are in the config.ini. they are at the bottom of the file where you see all of the events that can occur.

there is no easy way to configure notifications globally for different PDUs other than configuring it on one through the web interface and copying it over to different PDUs via the way you already are.

on my environmental monitoring unit, I have it set for:

When the event condition persists for 5 seconds, an E-mail will be sent to:
apc@apc.com
The e-mail will be repeated every 3 minutes, up to 4 times.

in the config.ini, this translates to:

; RS: Low temperature threshold violation.
E1907=ES,E(++05S+03M04:::),T (:::::)

the ()'s should be ] and ['s but the forum code changes them.

I know that E is for email, T is for traps (SNMP settings) but i am not sure of the exact syntax so I dont recommend setting it through the config.ini file manually. i'd recommend setting that part through the web interface then uploading it after. you can just upload the (EventActionConfig) part of the config.ini after you are done and it will just append it to the current config.ini - no need to upload the entire config.ini again.

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BillP · ‎2021-06-28

the notification settings are in the config.ini. they are at the bottom of the file where you see all of the events that can occur.

there is no easy way to configure notifications globally for different PDUs other than configuring it on one through the web interface and copying it over to different PDUs via the way you already are.

on my environmental monitoring unit, I have it set for:

When the event condition persists for 5 seconds, an E-mail will be sent to:
apc@apc.com
The e-mail will be repeated every 3 minutes, up to 4 times.

in the config.ini, this translates to:

; RS: Low temperature threshold violation.
E1907=ES,E(++05S+03M04:::),T (:::::)

the ()'s should be ] and ['s but the forum code changes them.

I know that E is for email, T is for traps (SNMP settings) but i am not sure of the exact syntax so I dont recommend setting it through the config.ini file manually. i'd recommend setting that part through the web interface then uploading it after. you can just upload the (EventActionConfig) part of the config.ini after you are done and it will just append it to the current config.ini - no need to upload the entire config.ini again.