Users Guide

Monitoring device alerts
By clicking the OpenManage Enterprise menu, and selecting items under Alerts, you can:
• Manage alerts by:
• Acknowledging alerts
• Ignoring alerts
• Viewing archived alerts and Downloading 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: To manage these settings, you must have the OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release administrator level
credentials. See Role-based OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release user privileges.
OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release provides a built-in report to view the list of devices monitored by OpenManage Enterprise–Tech
Release and the alerts generated for each device. Click OpenManage Enterprise > Monitor > Reports > Alert Counts per Device
Report. Click Run. See Running reports.
Related concepts
Viewing the alert logs
Related tasks
Deleting alerts
Topics:
• Viewing the alert logs
• Acknowledging alerts
• Unacknowledging alerts
• Ignoring alerts
• Deleting alerts
• Viewing archived alerts
• Downloading archived alerts
• Alert policies
• Alert definitions
Viewing 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–Tech Release. See OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release 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.
• 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.
On this page, you can acknowledge, unacknowledge, ignore, export, delete, and archive alert data. For more information about archiving
alerts, see Viewing archived alerts.
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