Users Guide

Workflow Description Result
Purge Alert Warning Generates an internal purge alert
warning.
If the alerts have exceeded more than 95% (that is,
475000), generates an internal purge alert to purge 10%
of the alerts .
Purge Alerts Alerts purged from the alert log. If the number of alerts have exceeded more than 100%
then 10% of the old alerts are purged to return to 90%
(that is 45,000).
Download Purge Alerts Download the purged alerts. Archives of the recent five purged alerts can be
downloaded from the Archive Alerts. See Downloading
archived alerts.
Downloading archived alerts
Archived alerts are the oldest 10% of the alerts (5000 nos) that are purged when the alerts exceed 50,000 in number. These oldest 5000
alerts are removed from the table and stored in a .CSV file, and then archived. To download the archived alert file:
1. Click Archived Alerts.
In the Archived Alerts dialog box, the last five purged archived alerts are displayed. File size, name, and archived date are indicated.
2. Select the check box corresponding to the alert file and click Finish.
The .CSV file is downloaded to the location you selected.
NOTE: Note: To download archived alerts, you must have necessary privileges. See Role-based OpenManage
Enterprise–Tech Release user privileges.
Alert policies
By clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Alerts > Alert Policies, you can:
• Automatically trigger actions based on the input from an alert.
• Send your alerts to email address, phone, SNMP traps, and perform device power control actions such as turning on or turning off a
device when an alert of a predefined category is generated.
• Create, edit, enable, disable, and delete the alert policies.
A tick mark corresponding to an alert policy indicates that the alert policy is enabled. When an alert is received that meets the policy
criteria, you can configure the policy to perform actions such as sending email message and enabling SNMP trap forwarding. After prior
setting, you can do the following:
• Send an email message:
1. Click the EMAIL cell corresponding to the alert policy.
2. In the Alert Actions: Email dialog box, type information about the message to be sent. Use the sample message pattern indicated
in the text boxes.
3. Click Finish. A tick mark is displayed in the cell. Email message is sent when an alert is received that meets the set policy criteria.
• Forward an SNMP trap:
1. Click the SNMP TRAP cell corresponding to the alert policy.
2. When prompted, click YES.
3. Under Alerts, expand SNMP Configuration.
4. Complete the tasks in Configuring SMTP, SNMP, and Syslog alerts. A tick mark is displayed in the cell. An SNMP trap is activated
when an alert is received that meets the set policy criteria.
• Ignore the alert policy:
1. Click the IGNORE cell corresponding to the alert policy.
2. When prompted that all actions associated with the policy will be removed, click YES. A tick mark is displayed in the cell. Any alert
received that meets the policy criteria will be ignored.
• Send notification to a mobile device. You must set up OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release and mobile phone for sending push
notifications. See OpenManage Mobile Settings.
1. Click the MOBILE cell corresponding to the alert policy. If enabled, the policy is disabled and the tick mark disappears. Vice-versa if
disabled.
• Send an SMS message:
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Monitoring device alerts