Users Guide
Monitoring device alerts
By clicking the OpenManage Enterprise menu, and selecting items under Alerts, you can:
• Monitor alerts by:
• Acknowledge alerts
• Ignore alerts
• View archived alerts and Download archived alerts
• Create and manage alert policies. See Alert policies.
• View alert definitions. See Alert definitions.
• Export all or selected alert data. See Exporting data.
NOTE: Currently, only the SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 alerts are received by OpenManage Enterprise from the following
PowerEdge servers—MX740c, MX840c, and MX5016s.
NOTE: To manage these settings, you must have the OpenManage Enterprise administrator level credentials. See Role-
based OpenManage Enterprise user privileges.
OpenManage Enterprise provides a built-in report to view the list of devices monitored by OpenManage Enterprise and the alerts
generated for each device. Click OpenManage Enterprise > Monitor > Reports > Alert Counts per Device Report. Click Run. See
Run reports.
Related concepts
View the alert logs
Related tasks
Delete alerts
Topics:
• View the alert logs
• Acknowledge alerts
• Unacknowledge alerts
• Ignore alerts
• Delete alerts
• View archived alerts
• Download archived alerts
• Alert policies
• Alert definitions
View the alert logs
Click OpenManage Enterprise > Configuration > Alerts > Alert Log. A list of alerts is displayed. The severity of alerts, time when
generated, source device that generated the alert, alert category, and alert message are displayed.
• SEVERITY indicates the severity of an alert.
• ACKNOWLEDGE displays a tick mark when an alert is viewed and acknowledged. The total number of alerts generated is also
displayed in the header of OpenManage Enterprise. See OpenManage Enterprise Graphical User Interface overview.
• Click the hyper-linked device name under SOURCE NAME to view and configure device properties that generated the alert. See
Viewing and configuring devices.
NOTE:
Alerts cannot be filtered based on the IP address (source name) if the alert is generated from an
undiscovered device or in case of an internal alert.
• CATEGORY indicates the alert category. For example, system health and audit.
The ACKNOWLEDGE column corresponding to an alert displays a tick mark when the alert is viewed and acknowledged.
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