Users Guide

● Send an alert through an SNMP trap.
● Send an alert to a syslog server.
● Perform device power control actions such as turning on or turning off a device when an alert of a predefined category is
generated.
● Run a remote script.
To view, create, edit, enable, disable, and delete alert policies, click Alerts > Alert Policies.
Related tasks
Configure and manage alert policies on page 114
Configure and manage alert policies
This topic provides instructions on how to create, edit, enable, disable, and delete alert policies.
NOTE:
● To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary role-based user privileges and scope-based
operational access to the devices. See Role and scope based access control in OpenManage Enterprise on page 15.
Related information
Alert policies on page 113
Forward audit logs to remote Syslog servers on page 115
Create an alert policy
You can create alert policies and enable them to send alerts to email address, phone, SNMP traps, and perform device control
actions such as turning on or off a device, power cycling, and graceful shutdown when an alert of a predefined category is
generated.
NOTE:
Post upgrade to version 3.6.x, any alert policy created by device managers from any of the prior OpenManage
Enterprise releases are assigned only to the administrator. Hence, the device managers must recreate the alert policies post
upgrade to continue receiving alerts.
On the Alerts > Alerts Policies page, click Create, and do the following:
1. Enter a name and description for the alert policy and click Next. The Enable Policy check-box is selected by default.
2. Select the alert category by selecting any or all the built-in and imported third-party Management Information Base (MIB)
categories.
You can expand each category to view and select the sub categories. To know more about categories and subcategories, see
Alert definitions on page 118.
3. Select the devices or groups for which an alert is required and click Next. An alert can be applied for:
● A device or devices.
● A group or groups of devices.
● A specified undiscovered device by entering its IP address or hostname.
● Any undiscovered device.
NOTE: The Remote Script Execution and Power Action tasks cannot be performed on the undiscovered devices..
NOTE: Alerts of SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3 protocols sent by such undiscovered (foreign) devices are
recognized by OpenManage Enterprise.
4. (Optional) Specify the duration for when the alert policy is applicable by selecting the required values for Date Range, Time
Interval and Days, and then click Next.
5. Select the severity of the alert and click Next.
To select all the severity categories, select the All check box.
6. Select one or more alert actions and click Next. The available options are:
● Email—Select Email to send an email to a designated recipient by specifying information for each field and use tokens if
required for the subject and message. See Token substitution in remote scripts and alert policy on page 174
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Monitor and Manage device alerts