Reference Guide

Alerts in Dell Command | Monitor 10.2.1
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 notification:
For Windows,
• Windows event log—available at Windows Logs > System
• CIM Indication— available through DCIM_AlerIndication class
• SNMP traps — available through 10909.mib file
• 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 a unique event ID number. The events have unique IDs to enable 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 specific events and can generate single alert messages for only those
events.
NOTE:
Configuring 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 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 to 1. Dell Command | Monitor sends local alerting and remote alerting for all the
listed events.
Table 150. Events Polled by
Dell Command | Monitor
Dell Command | Monitor Event
(Windows event log Number)
Description
AlertTemperatureProbeWarning
(1053)
Temperature probe has detected a warning value.
AlertTemperatureProbeFailure (1054)
Temperature probe has detected a failure value.
AlertTemperatureProbeNonRecoverab
le (1055)
Temperature probe has detected a nonrecoverable value.
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