Users Guide

Monitoring and Alert Management 251
Testing e-mail Alerting
The RAC e-mail alerting feature allows users to receive e-mail alerts when a
critical event occurs on the managed system. The following example shows
how to test the e-mail alerting feature to ensure that the RAC can properly
send out e-mail alerts across the network.
racadm testemail -i 2
NOTE: Ensure that the SMTP and Email Alert settings are configured before testing
the e-mail alerting feature. See "Configuring E-Mail Alerts" for more information.
Testing the RAC SNMP Trap Alert Feature
The RAC SNMP trap alerting feature allows SNMP trap listener
configurations to receive traps for system events that occur on the managed
system.
The following example shows how a user can test the SNMP trap alert feature
of the RAC.
racadm testtrap -i 2
Before you test the RAC SNMP trap alerting feature, ensure that the SNMP
and trap settings are configured correctly. See "testtrap" and "testemail"
subcommand descriptions to configure these settings.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is the following message displayed:
Remote Access: SNMP Authentication Failure
As part of discovery, IT Assistant attempts to verify the device’s get and set
community names. In IT Assistant, you have the get community name =
public and the set community name = private. By default, the community
name for the DRAC 5 agent is public. When IT Assistant sends out a set
request, the DRAC 5 agent generates the SNMP authentication error because
it will only accept requests from community = public.
You can change the DRAC 5 community name using RACADM.
To see the DRAC 5 community name, use the following command:
racadm getconfig -g cfgOobSnmp