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Best practices for Alert Management using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
8 Alert Ignore Action
An IT administrator can choose to ignore alerts for various reasons:
• If a maintenance task is scheduled in a data center, alerts are received in bulk and the alert log
is recorded in large numbers in OME. These are known alerts and can be ignored instead of
overloading the database.
• When you are aware that there are a few faulty devices in the data center that keep generating
alerts frequently, alerts from these devices can be ignored.
• In case the devices are sending similar alerts continuously, you can choose to avoid receiving
duplicate alerts in the console.
8.1 Creating an Alert Ignore Action
To create an alert action for Ignore policy, follow the steps from step 1 to 6 as described in Creating an Alert
Trap Forward Action section. For step 7, select the syslog watcher action instead of SNMP traps and verify
the summary.
Syslog Watcher Summary