Users Guide

Field Description
Associated Time Range The alert time range criteria used when matching
alerts.
Associated Days The alert days criteria used when matching alerts.
Minimum Repeat Time If enabled, specifies the minimum time in seconds
between two of the same alerts from the same
device.
Alert Categories
OpenManage Essentials has many alert categories and sources that are predefined and pre populated for
Dell management agents.
Alert categories are organizational levels of the Alert Categories tree. Alert sources specify the low level
details of each alert. To monitor the alert categories and sources, apply an alert action association to the
alert source or to its parent category.
This page provides a list of categories and the alerts sources within that category. Use this page to
configure alerts based on categories.
Alert Categories Options
Field Description
Brocade-Switch Select this category to include alerts for Brocade-
Switch.
Compellent Select this category to include alerts for
Compellent storage devices.
Dell Advanced Infrastructure Management Select this category to include alerts for Advanced
Infrastructure Management.
Environmental Select this category to include alerts for
temperature, fan enclosure, fan speed, thermal,
and cooling.
EqualLogic Storage Select this category to include alerts for
EqualLogic storage.
FC-Switch Select this category to include alerts for Fibre
Channel switches.
General Redundancy Select this category to include alerts for General
Redundancy.
HyperV Server Select this category to include alerts for HyperV
Server.
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