One useful feature of the Real-Time Monitoring Tool is the ability for the tool to send e-mails when an alert is triggered. In this recipe, we will set up a simple alert, which sends an e-mail when less than five MTP resources are available.
For e-mail alerts, the e-mail server must be configured as specified in the previous recipe.
To configure a custom alert in the Real-Time Monitoring Tool, perform the following:
First, log in to the Real-Time Monitoring Tool.
To create a custom alert, we must add a performance counter by first navigating to the performance monitoring page (System | Performance | Open Performance Monitoring).
From the tree, we must find the value we want to monitor; for this recipe we will add the ResourceAvailable counter from Cisco MTP Device.
To monitor the counter, double-click it. Depending on the counter we may be asked to specify an Instance, or device to monitor.
Once the counter has been...