Before discovering the network, the requirements mentioned in Planning for notifications checklist must be completed. Each chapter in this guide includes a checklist. “Design and Deployment Checklists” contains all available checklists.

Table 1. Planning for notifications checklist

Complete

Task

Description

Related documentation

Determine which notifications are important for operators.

Ensure that only the notifications that are useful to Global Console operators reach the Global Manager.

“Overview of notification processing”

Configure notification lists.

Notification lists are the mechanism that clients use to subscribe to and receive notifications from a Global Manager.

“Configuring notifications for clients”

Design trap processing.

Any deployment should include a plan to handle trap processing.

“Recommended trap processing design”