Chapter 3, Alerts

Understanding Alert Notices

Alert Notice



Column/Value Pairs

 The table in the center of the alert notice contains supplementary information regarding the particular system condition that triggered this alert. The Alert Library has more information regarding individual column/value pairs for each alert.


Command Buttons

Each corresponds to an alert response option.



Approving Recommended Actions

 An action recommended by an alert notice may require your approval before execution. This facility ensures you have absolute control over operations which may have a major effect on the alerting system.

Approve Dialog Box



Approval Response Options

NOTE: The SCO Doctor interface will read the EDITOR environment variable to determine the name of the editor program to invoke when the Edit response is selected. If your editor is defined to be a word processor, ensure you save the action script in pure text mode without any formatting. The action script is a TCL program fragment that can be modified or saved for later execution. To run a TCL script at a later time use the Tools, Command Execution menu option or the -s doctor switch. See the doctor(DR) manual page for more information.


The More Button

The More button provides extra details on the incoming alert notice.

More Screen


Select the More button for: