Chapter 5: Configuring and Using Alerts

Configuring OT-XML alerts

To publish OT-XML alerts, you must perform these configuration steps:

Set the PATH environment variable for the ims wrapper script, which is used to execute the alert operations. See “Setting the ims wrapper script path”.
Verify the ICU_DATA environment variable setting. This variable must be set to run the alerts service as a Windows service or UNIX daemon. See “Verifying the ICU_DATA variable setting”.
Use the e-Biz Impact Configurator to set up your clusters to send alerts as XML to Open Transport. See “Configuring clusters to send XML alerts” for instructions.
Configure an alertg configuration file. See “Configuring alertg to publish XML alerts”.
Configure an alertd configuration file. See “Configuring alertd for OT-XML alerts”.
Configure alerts to run as a Windows service or UNIX daemon (optional). See “Configuring alertd to run as a service or daemon”.
Configure an nnyreg.dat file. See “Configuring the OT nnsyreg.dat configuration file”.

When you enter path names, remember that names are not case sensitive on Windows, but are case sensitive on UNIX systems.