A typical Miletos project will go as follows:
- first, enter the properties of your mail
server, these properties will be used when sending email alerts:
- select the Properties tab.
- fill in the address of your mail server and the fromadddress and subject
fields.
- send a test email.
- if ok, press the apply button.
- add the machines which events you
wish to trap:
- in the Machines tab of Miletos, add the machines of your choise.
- Miletos has to run under a account that gives administrator access to
those machines.
- in the Events tab of Miletos the trapped events will be collected.
- after collecting events for some time,
exclude the types you are not interested in:
- select the Events tab.
- select the Exclusions tab.
- in Trapped events, select a type you
wish to exclude.
- of the selected event type, select the properties that have to match for
exclusion by checking the corresponding check boxes.
- click the Exclude button.
- setup email alerts for the event types of
your choise:
- select the Events tab.
- select the Alerts tab.
- in Trapped events, select a type you wish to setup email alerts for.
- select the properties that have to match for sending an email alert.
- fill in the mail address box.
- press the Alert button.