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.
AlertTemperatureProbeNonRecover
able (1055)
Temperature probe has detected a nonrecoverable value.
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