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Alert Definition
Best practices for Alert Management using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
2 Alert Definition
Alert definition is a meta data of alerts, defined by Open Manage Enterprise. You can view alerts that are
generated for errors or informational purposes. An Error and Event messages have the following information:
• Message ID—Messages are classified based on components such as threshold violation, power
policy violation, and group membership changes.
• Message—The actual cause of an event. Events are triggered for information purpose only, or
when there is an error in performing tasks.
• Category—Class to which the error message belongs to. For information about categories, see
the Event and Error Message Reference Guide for Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers available on
the support site.
• Recommended Action—Resolution to the error by using GUI, RACADM, or WS-Man commands.
• Detailed Description—More information about an issue for easy and fast resolution.
• Severity—Relative impact of the issue such as critical or warning or information
Any alerts generated internally or coming from device, is compared with alert definition and then it is
displayed with respective severity and message ID. In case the alert is not defined it is displayed as unknown.