5.2 MONITORING
From the MONITORING CONFIGURATION menu, you can set all parameters
relevant to the headend monitoring. The menu is divided into three sections:
Monitoring settings, Date and Time Settings, Email Settings.
Enabling monitoring: for disabling or enabling the monitoring function,
Saving on a log file: for enabling or disabling the saving on a monitoring file
Duration of the log file: for enabling its duration.
The Empty button allows you to delete all monitored events from the log file.
Send an alarm email: for enabling or disabling the dispatch of an alarm email
in the event one or more parameters exceeds the operation range you have set.
Date: for setting the date of the headend, by entering it in the proper box.
Time: for setting the time of the headend by entering it in the proper box.
Date and time synchronization (NTP): for enabling or disabling the tune of date
and time of the headend with those of the server.
NTP server: for setting the address of the server that is used for tuning the date
and the time of the headend (default: 0.it.pool.ntp.org).
Timezone: for setting the time of the installation country.
SMTP server: for setting the support server's address for performing the function
of sending the monitoring email by entering the address in the proper box.
Receiver email address: for setting the email address where the monitoring
message will be sent.
Fig. 11
Sender email address: for setting the email address from which the monitoring
message will be sent (default: 3dg_glex@fracarro.com).
Furthermore, by clicking the key "send test email, " you can send a test email to make sure that the email works properly.
Click the "Save" key to apply the modifications.
From the MONITORING HISTORY menu it is possible to access the following page:
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From this window, you can display and search the history of events detected by monitoring.
The page reports the event ID, the relevant module, the date, the time, the value, if an alarm was generated or not, and the description of the event.
The Historical can also be exported in Excel or PDF formats or it can be printed directly.
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