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Alert Trap Forward Action
Best practices for Alert Management using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
5 Alert Trap Forward Action
• OME receives alerts from various SNMP agents and Platform Event Traps (PETs) configured on
the network. These traps may be required by another OME instance or other Network
Management Systems (NMS).
• The system administrator can set the rules to define which traps will be forwarded based on the
traps severity, traps categories, and devices or device groups.
• When there are multiple instances of OME configured, where each instance is monitoring a
subset of devices in a data center, a system administrator may want to consolidate the alerts
from multiple OME instances for alert management. Else, the system administrator should
individually check all the OME servers for monitoring the devices.
• Instead, a system administrator can configure a master OME server to which all the other OME
instances will forward the alerts or traps. Instances also provide the system administrator a
consolidated view of all the alerts and enable the system administrator to manage the data
center from a single master OME server.
• An SNMP trap carries data in form of trap variable, commonly known as trap varbinds, which
provides enough information about the event, based on which, an administrator can take
corrective measures.
5.1 Creating an Alert Trap Forward Action
1. Click create alert policy as shown in figure1. The Alert Policy Wizard is displayed in figure 2. In the Alert
Policy Wizard provide a name and description.
Create policy