Alerts in NetMaster (displayed on shortcut /ALERTS) can come from the following sources:
a) IP Node Monitor and IP Resource Monitor
Raises alerts based on the performance of specified attributes of IP resources. The alerts can be:
■ Enumerated attributes equal to a specific value
■ Numeric attributes above or below a specified constant threshold
■ Numeric attributes differing from a baseline by more than a specified percentage
b) IP Event Detectors
Raises alerts based on an event, for example, a particular port listener becomes active or an FTP
transfer matching specified criteria fails.
c) User-written NCL Procedures
Raises alerts defined by user-written NCL procedures, using supplied NCL API calls.
d) CA NetMaster Internals
Raises alerts concerning the conditions that affect the operation of the CA NetMaster NM for
TCP/IP region, for example, VSAM errors on critical files.
e) CA OPS/MVS
Raises alerts specific to CA OPS/MVS.