Owner's Manual

106 Monitoring and Alerting
All health monitoring policies are agentless (they do not require an
Altiris Agent installation on the devices) and are enabled by default.
Rules are defined to trigger an alert when any health state change occurs.
Dependencies for Health Monitoring
Table 9-6. Description of Last Values
Value State
0Normal
10 Undetermined
20 Informational
30 Warning
40 Major
50 Critical
99 Disconnect
1 Powered off
NOTE: In most cases, you cannot distinguish between the Disconnect and Powered
off
states, except for devices such as Dell Remote Access Controllers (DRAC) where
you can retrieve the device status from an out-of-band interface while the device is
powered off.
Table 9-7. Dependencies for Health Monitoring
Dependency Description
Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator
Server Administrator is required to manage the
Dell server health. You can also decide to install
Storage Management and Dell Remote Access
Controller while installing the Server Administrator.
SNMP SNMP is the only protocol available for monitoring
most network devices.
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