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Monitoring device alerts
By clicking the OpenManage Enterprise menu, and selecting items under Alerts, you can:
Monitor alerts by:
Acknowledge alerts on page 89
Ignore alerts on page 89
View archived alerts on page 90 and Download archived alerts on page 90
Create and manage alert policies. See Alert policies on page 90.
View alert definitions. See Alert definitions on page 97.
Hide and display acknowledged alerts. See Customize the alert display on page 145.
Export all or selected alert data. See Export all or selected data on page 46.
NOTE: Currently, only the SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 alerts are received by OpenManage Enterprise from the following
PowerEdge servers MX840c and MX5016s.
NOTE: To manage these settings, you must have the OpenManage Enterprise administrator level credentials. See Role-
based OpenManage Enterprise user privileges on page 14.
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 on page 123.
Related concepts
View the alert logs on page 88
Related tasks
Delete alerts on page 89
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 > 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.
NOTE: By default only the unacknowledged alerts are displayed.
You can customize the list of the alerts using either the Advanced Filters, located on the top left hand side of the alert list, or
by changing the Alert Display Settings in the Application Settings page. See Customize the alert display on page 145
NOTE:
OpenManage Enterprise version 3.2 and above tracks the Last Updated By data point, however, in the previous
versions this was not tracked. Therefore, be aware that if the Alert log is refined using the User advanced filter field, the
acknowledged alerts from the previous versions will not be displayed.
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