Owners Manual

Alert Source
Each Alert Category contains alert sources. Click an alert category to view alert sources. Expand a
category to view the list of alert sources, and select an alert source.
Field Description
Name The name of the new alert source, for example,
myFanAlert.
Type The protocol information.
Catalog Provides the catalog information.
Severity Specifies the severity assigned to the alert that is
triggered if the alert source generates the specified
SNMP trap.
Format string Provides the message string that appears in the
Alert Logs if the alert source generates an alert of
sufficient severity to trigger the alert. You can use
formatting commands to specify parts of the
message string. For SNMP, the valid formatting
commands are:
$n = system name
$d = date
$t = time
$s = severity
$e = enterprise object identifier (OID)
$sp = specific trap OID
$g = generic trap OID
$1 - $# = varbind values
SNMP Enterprise OID Provides the enterprise OID (SNMP OID prefix) of
the management information base (MIB) file that
defines the event source that you want to monitor.
SNMP Generic Trap OID Provides the generic trap ID of the SNMP trap that
you want to monitor from the desired event
source. See the Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator SNMP Reference Guide at dell.com/
OpenManageManuals for more information on
SNMP traps.
SNMP Specific Trap OID Provides the specific trap ID of the SNMP trap that
you want to monitor from the desired event
source. See the Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator SNMP Reference Guide at dell.com/
OpenManageManuals for more information on
SNMP traps.
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