Alarm reporting¶

All collectors and exporters, as well as any associated streams and profiles, that have triggered alarms are highlighted in red in their respective tabs in the Plixer Replicator web interface. Drilling into the details page for a profile will show additional information about any alarms associated with it.

Alarms via syslog

Plixer Replicator can also send alarm details in a syslog message to an external server.

To enable syslog alarms, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the web interface and navigate to the Settings tab.

  2. In the Notifications setting field, enter the destination IP address and port for syslog alarms in the following format:

    SERVER_IP:PORT

  3. Click the Save button to save any changes made.

As long as a destination server is defined for the Notifications setting, Plixer Replicator will automatically send alarm details in a syslog message every time an alarm is triggered.

Hint

Plixer Scrutinizer includes corresponding alarm policies for all Plixer Replicator alarms and can be used to monitor an environment for collectors and exporters that go down. View the Plixer Scrutinizer online documentation or contact Plixer Technical Support to learn more.

Viewing alarms via CLI

To view all active alarms in the Plixer Replicator CLI, launch the interactive prompt and enter the following command:

REPLICATOR> show alarms

The interactive commands show and setting can also be used to display additional information or generate reports based on live data. For more details on these commands and their arguments/directives, see the section on Plixer Replicator’s Interactive Mode.