Reference Guide

Dell Command | Monitor alerting

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 four types of notification:

• NT event log

• WMI event

• SNMP traps

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.

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.

Dell Command | Monitor recognizes the following eight WMI severity levels (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 after a 60-second delay.

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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