Users Guide

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 configured.
Filtering alerts
You can filter alerts based on category and severity.
Filtering alerts using iDRAC web interface
To filter the alerts based on category and severity:
NOTE:
Even if you are a user with read-only privileges, you can filter the alerts.
1. In iDRAC Web interface, go to Configuration > System Settings > Alerts and Remote System Log Configuration.
2. Under Alerts and Remote System Log Configuration section, select Filter:
• System Health — System Health category represents all the alerts that are related to hardware within the system chassis.
Examples include temperature errors, voltage errors, device errors.
• Storage Health — Storage Health category represents alerts that are related to the storage subsystem. Examples include,
controller errors, physical disk errors, virtual disk errors.
• Configuration — Configuration category represents alerts that are related to hardware, firmware and software configuration
changes. Examples include, PCI-e card added/removed, RAID configuration changed, iDRAC license changed.
• Audit — Audit category represents the audit log. Examples include, user login/logout information, Password authentication
failures, session info, power states.
• Updates — Update category represents alerts that are generated due to firmware/Driver upgrades/downgrades.
NOTE:
This doesn’t represent firmware inventory.
• Work Notes
3. Select one or more of the following severity levels:
• Informational
• Warning
• Critical
4. Click Apply.
The Alert Results section displays the results based on the selected category and severity.
Filtering alerts using RACADM
To filter the alerts, use the eventfilters command. For more information, see the iDRAC RACADM CLI Guide available at www.dell.com/
idracmanuals.
Setting event alerts
You can set event alerts such as e-mail alerts, IPMI alerts, SNMP traps, remote system logs, operating system logs, and WS events to be
sent to configured destinations.
Configuring iDRAC to send alerts
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