ServerConductor/Blade Server Manager Description and Reference

### 8.1.2 Setting an environment (information acquisition)

To acquire information, the following environment settings are required:

- Creating user menus
  User menus are required in order to acquire maintenance information using user-defined tools.
- Setting the transfer method
  This is required in order to transfer acquired maintenance information. Two transfer methods are available:
  - File transmission to the management console
    Set the directory for storing the maintenance information.
  - Email transmission
    Set information required for transmitting maintenance information as an email attachment, such as the destination of the email.

The following subsections describe these methods.

Organization of this subsection
  (1) Creating user menu items
  (2) Setting the transmission method

#### (1) Creating user menu items

Three information acquisition menu items are provided by default. They are for acquisition of OS information, ServerConductor log information, and hardware information (computer devices). To acquire other maintenance information, you must use agent service settings to add the necessary information acquisition menu items. The added menu items are displayed in the Information Acquisition dialog box described in 8.1.3 Acquiring maintenance information and can be selected when maintenance information is to be acquired.

To add a menu item:

1. In the Host Management window, from the Setting menu, choose Agent Service Settings.
   The Agent Service Settings dialog box appears.
2. Choose the Information Acquisition tab.

   On this tabbed page, you can set the following information:

   Item | Setting
   --- | ---
   Menu title | Specify a menu item name to be displayed in the menu list. You can register a maximum of 100 menu items.
   Executable file | Specify the name of a file that is to be executed and execution options. For Windows servers The executable file must have been stored in advance in the ServerConductor-installation-directory\Tool\UsrBin folder of the managed server. The execution results of the executable file are output to the directory defined in the %SmToolOutput% environment variable. Do not change this environment variable because it is for referencing purposes only. For Linux servers The executable file must have been stored in advance in the /var/opt/hitachi/serverconductor/agent/tmp directory of the managed server. The execution results of the executable file are output to the /var/opt/hitachi/serverconductor/agent/collect directory. Note that executable files stored in /var/opt/hitachi/serverconductor/agent/tmp are deleted when Agent (Linux) is uninstalled.

3. Click the Add button.
   The specified menu title is displayed in the menu list. To delete an unneeded menu item, select the menu item, and then click the Delete button. To change a menu item's settings, select the desired menu item, change its menu title and executable file information, and then click the Change button.
4. Click the OK button.

#### (2) Setting the transmission method

##### (a) Setting file transmission

To set the storage location used when maintenance information is to be transmitted as a file to the management console:

1. In the Host Management window, from the Setting menu, choose Console Service Settings.
   The Console Service Settings dialog box appears.
2. Choose the Information Acquisition tab.

3. Specify the storage location for the acquired information.
   You must specify a directory that can be recognized by the OS running on the host where the console service is installed.
4. Click the OK button.

##### (b) Setting email (maintenance information)

To transmit maintenance information as an email attachment:

1. In the Host Management window, from the Setting menu, choose Manager Service Settings.
   The Manager Service Settings dialog box appears.
2. Choose the Email Settings tab.
3. From the Select the function for email settings drop-down list, select Information Acquisition.
   The settings for information acquisition are displayed:

   On this tabbed page, set the following information:

   Item | Setting
   --- | ---
   Destination | Set the email address to which maintenance information is to be sent.
   Sender | Set the sender's email address.
   Subject | Set a character string for the subject line of the email.
   Mail server | Set the host name or IP address of the sender's mail server.
   Test email | Select if a test email is to be sent to all email addresses displayed in the Email report destination list. Test Mail is set as the subject line and as the message of the test email, and no file is attached.
   Maximum size of attached file | Specify a maximum size for the file attachment (in megabytes). You cannot specify a value in excess of 32 megabytes; however, if you specify 0, this size limitation is eliminated and files larger than 32 megabytes can be sent as attachments. The default is 0.

4. Click the Add to List button.
   The destination specified in Email report destination list is added. You can set a maximum of four email destinations. To delete an added destination, select it, and then click the Delete button.
5. Click the OK button.

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