User guide

3.5.12 PEF Management

This page is used to configure the Event Filter, Alert Policy and LAN Destination. To view the page, the

user must at least be an Operator. To modify or add a PEF, the user must be an Administrator.

NOTE: Free slots are denoted by ‘~’ in all columns for the slot. For more information, refer the

Platform Event Filtering (PEF) section in IPMI Specification.

Event Filter

Click the Event Filter tab to show configured Event filters and available slots. You can modify or add

new event filter entries here. A maximum of 40 slots are available and include the default of 15 event

filter configurations.

Alert Policy

Click the Alert policy tab to show configured Alert policies and available slots. You can modify or add

new alert policy entries here. A maximum of 60 slots are available.

LAN Destination

Click the LAN Destination tab to show configured LAN destinations and available slots. You can modify

or add new LAN destination entries here. A maximum of 15 slots are available.

Send Test Alert

Select a configured slot in the LAN Destination tab and click ‘Send Test Alert’ to send a sample alert to

the configured destination.

NOTE: Test alerts can be sent only with SMTP configurations set to enabled. SMTP suppport can be

enabled under Configuration->SMTP.

Add

Select a free slot and click ‘Add’ to add a new entry to the device.

Alternatively, double click on a free slot.

Modify

Select a configured slot and click ‘Modify’ to modify that entry. Alternatively, double click on the