Owner's Manual

Using the Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 15
• Critical — Event that indicates actual or imminent loss of data or loss of
function, such as crossing a failure threshold, or a hardware failure.
•
Indeterminate— Event with unknown severity. Also, a resolution event
that clears the problem event is initially displayed as indeterminate and
then changed to normal, when the alert type of the event is
Resolution .
Event Auto Correlation
The Dell OpenManage Connection supports auto correlation of events on
Dell servers and EqualLogic systems. When the ObjectServer receives
OMSA, OMSS, or EqualLogic events, appropriate triggers are automatically
invoked to correlate the events.
The Dell OpenManage Connection automatically correlates the following
events:
• Problem event with its corresponding clear event: OMSA, OMSS, and
EqualLogic events support this event correlation. The IBM
generic_clear
trigger correlates the OMSA, OMSS, and EqualLogic problem events with
its corresponding clear event when the problem is rectified.
• Problem event with another problem event: OMSA and EqualLogic events
support this event correlation. The
dell_omsa_clear trigger correlates the
OMSA problem event by another problem event. The
dell_equallogic_clear trigger correlates the EqualLogic problem events.
• Duplicated problem event with another problem event: OMSA and
EqualLogic events support this event correlation. The
dell_omsa_deduplicate_clear trigger correlates the OMSA problem
events. The
dell_equallogic_deduplicate_clear trigger correlates the
EqualLogic problem events.
NOTE: The normal to normal event correlation is not supported as
Netcool/OMNIbus clears the normal events periodically. For more
information on OMSA and OMSS event correlation, see Dell
OpenManage Server Administrator Messages Reference Guide at
support.dell.com. For more information on EqualLogic event
correlation, see
Appendix .