Users Guide

Monitoring Health Instances
Be default the unhealthy instances are displayed for the discovered devices in the Nagios XI Console. You can change the value
of --excludeinstance in the check_command script to view the required instance.
You can perform the below steps to change the value of --excludeinstance:
1. Click on the service for which you want to change the value of --excludeinstance.
2. Click on Configure tab.
3. Choose Re-configure this service option.
4. You can delete or change the value of --excludeinstance parameter in the check script command under Monitor the
service with this command section.
5. Click on Update and then click on Continue.
6. Status Information for the Service will be changed in the next check.
Monitoring alerts and event Traps
You can asynchronously receive the alerts and events (traps) generated by the discovered Dell EMC devices. Once an alert is
received, the respective device’s service displays the alert summary message and alert severity of the last received alert in the
Nagios XI console.
The following table lists the traps supported by the various Dell EMC devices:
Table 30. Dell EMC trap information (continued)
Service Status Description
Dell EMC Server Traps The following states are possible:
● OK
● Warning
● Unknown
● Critical
Provides trap information of the Dell
EMC servers discovered through the
agent-free method.
Dell EMC Chassis Traps The following states are possible:
● OK
● Warning
● Unknown
● Critical
Provides trap information of the
M1000e, VRTX, and FX2/FX2s chassis.
Dell EMC Storage PS-Series Member
Traps
The following states are possible:
● OK
● Warning
● Unknown
● Critical
Provides trap information of the
EqualLogic PS-Series storage Arrays.
Dell EMC Storage PS-Series Group
Traps
The following states are possible:
● OK
● Warning
● Unknown
● Critical
Provides trap information of the
EqualLogic PS-Series storage Arrays.
Dell EMC Storage SC-Series
Management Traps
The following states are possible:
● OK
● Warning
● Unknown
Provides trap information of the
Compellent SC-Series storage Arrays.
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