Reference Guide

Alerts in Dell Command | Monitor10.1.0
Local alerting involves displaying user messages and writing to the Windows event log. Remote alerting is accomplished through WMI
indications. When Dell Command | Monitor detects an event, it generates an alert, which can be transmitted through the WMI service to a
remote management application that is subscribed to that alert type.
When an alert is generated, Dell Command | Monitor supports following types of notication:
For Windows,
• Windows event log— available at Windows Logs > System
• CIM Indication— available through DCIM_AlerIndication class
• SNMP traps — available through 10909.mib le
• History — available through DCIM_LogEntry class instances
For Linux,
• Syslog — available at /var/log
• CIM Indication— available through DCIM_AlerIndication class
• Application log— available through DCIM_LogEntry class
• History — available through DCIM_LogEntry class instances
In Dell Command | Monitor, each type of event (for example, CurrentProbe, TemperatureProbe, Smart, and so on) that gets logged is
provided with an unique event ID number. The events have unique IDs to allow log scraping; this way you can programmatically look at the
event log and determine what Dell Command | Monitor events have occurred.
In Dell Command | Monitor for Windows, you are also provided with an option to receive either a single alert or a limited number of alerts of
the occurrence of an event, of a given type. You can mask out specic events and can generate single alert messages for only those
events.
NOTE
: Conguring the selected events is not supported for Dell Command | Monitor for Linux.
Dell Command | Monitor recognizes the following eight CIM severity levels using perceived severity (represented by integers 0 through 7):
• UNKNOWN = 0
• OTHER = 1
• INFORMATION = 2
• WARNING_DEGRADED = 3
• MINOR = 4
• MAJOR = 5
• CRITICAL = 6
• FATAL_NONRECOVERABLE = 7
NOTE
: Events with CRITICAL severity will cause Dell Command | Monitor to shut down the local system.
The lowest WMI severity level that Dell Command | Monitor sends is WARNING_DEGRADED and the highest is CRITICAL. The severities
of Dell Command | Monitor events are listed in Table 2-1. Dell Command | Monitor sends local alerting and remote alerting for all the listed
events.
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