Owner's Manual

12 Using the OpenManage Connection
Monitoring Dell Systems
After the Dell devices are classified, periodic health polling happens in regular
intervals for devices having Dell Agents. During the health poll, the global
status of the Dell agents are fetched and reflected in the CA NSM console.
The DSM and WV components pro-actively poll each agent and change the
color of the icon to indicate the status of the agent. Table 2-3 lists the icons
that indicate the health status of the Dell agents.
NOTE: The default poll interval time is 1800 seconds.
NOTE: The default SNMP time out is 16 seconds.
NOTE: The default maximum number of retry attempts is 5 incase of any failure
during polling.
Table 2-3. Health Status Indicators of Dell Agents
Icon Health Status of the Dell Agent
Green Normal Status
Yellow Warning condition, such as a voltage,
current, temperature, or fan reading that
has exceeded a warning threshold
Red Critical alarm; the device has failed or has
crossed a failure threshold and may fail
Black System is unavailable
Gray Unknown state