Users Guide

Enabling or disabling alerts

For sending an alert to congured destinations or to perform an event action, you must enable the global alerting option. This property

overrides individual alerting or event actions that is set.

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Filtering alerts

Conguring email alert, SNMP trap, or IPMI trap settings

Enabling or disabling alerts using web interface

To enable or disable generating alerts:

1 In iDRAC Web interface, go to Overview > Server > Alerts. The Alerts page is displayed.

2 Under Alerts section:

• Select Enable to enable alert generation or perform an event action.

• Select Disable to disable alert generation or disable an event action.

3 Click Apply to save the setting.

Enabling or disabling alerts using RACADM

Use the following command:

racadm set iDRAC.IPMILan.AlertEnable <n>

n=0 — Disabled

n=1 — Enabled

Enabling or disabling alerts using iDRAC settings utility

To enable or disable generating alerts or event actions:

1 In the iDRAC Settings utility, go to Alerts.

The iDRAC Settings Alerts page is displayed.

2 Under Platform Events, select Enabled to enable alert generation or event action. Else, select Disabled. For more information about

the options, see iDRAC Settings Utility Online Help.

3 Click Back, click Finish, and then click Yes.

The alert settings are congured.

Filtering alerts

You can lter alerts based on category and severity.