Users Guide

Using the Connection 17
Using the Connection
Event Management
The Tivoli Enterprise Console
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displays alerts about the health of Dell™ PowerEdge™ systems.
You can view the Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator Storage Management,
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator, and Dell OpenManage Array Manager events.
NOTE: Starting with Dell OpenManage 5.0, Array Manager is no longer an installable option. If you have an
Array Manager installation and need information on how to migrate from Array Manager to Storage
Management, refer to the product documentation prior to Storage Management 2.1 or Dell OpenManage 5.1.
Support for Array Manager has been withdrawn from the Dell PowerEdge Installation and Server Management CD
version 5.0 and later.
Events are logged in the Tivoli Enterprise Console with three different severities: harmless, warning,
and critical. Click the event ID in the Tivoli Enterprise Console for information about the event.
A harmless event is displayed in green and indicates that the component is working as expected.
A warning event is displayed in yellow. A warning event indicates that a probe or another monitoring
device has detected a reading for the component that is above or below the acceptable level.
The component may still be functioning but it could fail and data maybe lost.
A critical event is displayed in red. A critical event displays an error that indicates that the
component has either failed or failure is imminent.The component requires immediate attention
and may need to be replaced. Data loss may have occurred.
Based on the level of severity of the event, you can take precautions. You can also find out the type of
event from the event viewer. For example, omsm, omam, and omsa.
Events Displayed on the Management Station
1 Launch the Tivoli Enterprise Console.
2 Select Options → Reload Events .
3 Click on the specific event for more information.
Events from OpenManage instrumentation will have class names prefixed with DELL. For example:
• Storage Management events are prefixed with DELL_OMSM_
• Server Administrator events are prefixed with DELL_OMSA_
• Array Manager events are prefixed with DELL_OMAM_