User's Manual
Field Description
See the sample alert action under Application
Launch alert action for more information.
Test Action Allows you to test the application launch.
NOTE: Alert actions are run when a matching
alert is received; so the alert application
launch action is a script or batch file that does
not require user interaction.
E-Mail Configuration
You can configure Essentials so that you receive e-mail each time the alert associations for your devices
meet specific alert criteria. For example, you may want to receive an e-mail message for all warning and
critical alerts.
Use this window to specify the parameters for configuring the e-mail alert action.
Field Description
To Specifies a valid e-mail address served by the
company's SMTP server of the person who is to
receive the e-mail.
From Specifies the originating e-mail address.
Subject Specify the e-mail subject using text or the
available alert tokens.
Message Specify the e-mail message using text or the
available alert tokens.
Email Settings Select to provide the SMTP server name or IP
address.
Test Action Allows you to test the e-mail action.
NOTE: After sending the test e-mail, verify
that the e-mail was received successfully and
has the expected content.
NOTE: Alert tokens are substituted at the time the alert action occurs. They are not substituted for a
test action.
NOTE: Certain paging vendors support alphanumeric paging through e-mail. OpenManage
Essentials supports paging through the e-mail option.
Trap Forwarding
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps are generated in response to changes in the status
of sensors and other monitored parameters on a managed device. In order to correctly forward these
traps, you must configure an SNMP trap destination, defined either by IP address or host name. For
information about forwarding SNMPv1 and SNMP v2 traps in both the original format and OMEssentials
format, see Forwarding Alerts Use Case Scenarios.
For example, you may want to use trap forwarding if you are in a multi tiered enterprise environment
using OpenManage Essentials to create associations and forward traps to the enterprise manager.
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