Post Web Form

The Post Web Form notification method posts messages to an Intranet or Internet web site.

Web Form Settings

•Web Form URL- Enter the fully qualified URL for the form to be used for posting. Press <SHIFT>-<Tab> to retrieve this URL before filling out the form.

Complete the form from the web page as you wish it to appear. Click the Copy Variable to Clipboard button to display a list of Environment Variables. Select a variable from the list, position the cursor to the form where the variable is to be used, and paste it into a field within the form.

When the Web form is completed , click the Test button to test it and see the results at the web server.

Web Options

If the Web server to which you are posting requires authentication, you may enter credentials using the Web Options dialog.

•Use Logon Credentials - Enable (check) this option if the URL requires authentication.

•Username - Enter the username for authentication.

•Password - Enter the password for the username entered.

•Keywords - Enter a list of keywords or phrases, separated by semi-colon (;).

Because web servers may not return an error code if the post does not succeed, ELM inspects the returned HTML for keywords and phrases to determine the success of the web post.

•Success - Select this option if the keywords specify a success. All keywords and phrases must be found on the page to determine it was a success.

•Failure - Select this option if the keywords specify a failure. Any of the keywords and phrases will cause the page to be identified as a failure.

Note
When using the Web Post Notification, the results depend primarily on the resulting Web page that is sent back after the posting page has been submitted. To guard against false positives or false negatives, enter Success and/or Failure Keywords that appear on the Success or Failure results page. The resulting Web page will then be searched for the keywords to determine whether or not the Web Post Notification Method was successful.

Threshold

Thresholds determine how many times identical events can occur before the Notification Method will be executed, or stopped from executing. There are three threshold settings available:

•Disable this notification when it is triggered. If the Notification Method is triggered the configured number of times within the specified time period, the notifications will stop. The Notification Method is then re-enabled after a specified time period .

•Activate this notification method after it is triggered. When this threshold is selected, the notifications will not be processed unless the rule is triggered the specified number of times within the time period selected.

•Consolidate notifications by waiting until either:

•A specific number of similar events has occurred

•A specific amount of time has elapsed

To disable this Notification Method for older data sent from a Service Agent, check the box that says Disable this notification method for all Cached (old) data. By default, 60 minutes is the window of time which differentiates old data from new data. If an event occurred within the last hour, even though it may be from a Service Agent cache file, ELM will not treat it as (old) cached data. This feature is designed to account for, and notify you of, events that occur during brief ELM Server outages (reboots, service restart, etc.). This window of time can be changed by setting the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TNT Software\ELM Enterprise Manager\6.7\Settings\CacheDataTrigger value in the Registry on the ELM Server.

Threshold Events Counter

The threshold count increments only for identical events; that is, events that have the same four fields:

•Computer Name

•Source

•User Name

•Event ID

For example, if you configure a Beep Notification Method with the Threshold set to Disable when triggered 2 times within 5 minutes, and re-enable after 30 minutes, and within a 5 minute period the following events are received triggering rules that use this Notification Method:

•Computer: SERVERA

•Source: Perflib

•Event ID: 1003

•User Name: None

•Category: None

•Type: Warning Time

•Generated: 4/10/2011 1:34:58 PM

•Log: Application

•Message: Performance data cannot be collected.

•Computer: SERVERA

•Source: Perflib

•Event ID: 1003

•User Name: None

•Category: None

•Type: Warning

•Time Generated: 4/10/2011 1:36:04 PM

•Log: Application

•Message: Performance data cannot be collected.

Then because the four fields match, the events increment the count. Because two identical events occurred within the defined 5 minute period, the Notification Method will be disabled for additional matching events for 30 minutes, and automatically re-enabled thereafter. While the Notification Method is disabled for one group of events, it will send notifications for other (non-matching) events unless they also reach the threshold. The threshold count would not be incremented if the second event looked like this:

•Computer: SERVERB

•Source: Perflib

•Event ID: 1003

•User Name: None

•Category: None

•Type: Warning

•Time Generated: 4/10/2011 1:34:58 PM

•Log: Application

•Message: Performance data cannot be collected.

Because the Computer name is different in the above event, it is not considered an identical event, and therefore does not increment the threshold count for the first event (and thus does not disable the Notification Method).

Scheduled Hours

The Schedule setting for this Notification. The Schedule allows you to control when the Notification is run.

Select the times that this Notification is active. By default, the schedule is set to ON for all hours and all days. Mouse clicks toggle each time period ON and OFF. Clicking on an individual square will toggle the active schedule for that hour. Clicking on an hour at the top of the grid, or on a day of the week at the left of the grid will toggle the entire column or row. Keyboard equivalents are the arrow keys and the space bar.

Properties Tab

This read-only tab displays the properties of the selected object and the values for those properties.