Users Guide

NOTE: To quickly disable alert pop-up notifications, click the Disable link displayed in the alert pop-up notification. When
the Disable Alert Popup Notifications prompt is displayed, click Yes.
1. Click Settings → Alert Settings.
The Alert Settings page is displayed.
2. In Alert Popup Notification Settings:
• Select the Enable Alert Popup Notifications option to enable alert pop-up notifications when a Warning or Critical alert is
received.
• Clear the Enable Alert Popup Notifications option to disable alert pop-up notifications.
3. Click Apply.
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Alert Pop-Up Notifications
Managing MIB Files
Dell OpenManage Essentials provides support for formatting hardware alerts (SNMP traps) for most Dell enterprise devices. If you
have non-Dell devices, you can use the Alerts portal to define new alerts for OpenManage Essentials. Defining alerts allows
OpenManage Essentials to monitor a wider range of hardware and set up email and forwarding rules for these devices.
The Alerts portal allows you to extract trap definitions from SMIv1 or SMIv2 management information base (MIB) files. The
extracted traps can be viewed and edited before importing them to OpenManage Essentials. This utility also allows you to manually
define and manage traps. Using the imported and manually-managed trap definitions, OpenManage Essentials properly classifies the
incoming trap from a specific device.
NOTE: Importing traps portal is optional and only needed for formatting alerts from non-Dell devices.
Importing MIBs
Use case scenario: As an administrator you want to monitor (listen and classify incoming traps) a device that is not supported by
OpenManage Essentials.
Solution: Verify whether the device supports SNMP protocol. If the device supports SNMP protocol, ensure that the service is
running and the trap destination points to the OpenManage Essentials-based system. For unsupported device traps, define the
traps in OpenManage Essentials by importing the trap definitions using the Alerts portal. The following table provides information
about traps before and after they are imported to the OpenManage Essentials database.
Table 179. Importing MIBs
Feature Before Importing the MIB to the
OpenManage Essentials Database
After Importing the MIB to the
OpenManage Essentials Database
Can I see traps coming from the device in
the OpenManage Essentials alerts portal?
Yes Yes
Will traps have a severity value? No, the severity is unknown. Yes
Will traps have a valid name? No, the name is unknown. Yes, the trap name is defined in the MIB.
Will traps have a valid event category
name?
No, the event category name is unknown. Yes, a new category is created by default.
Will traps have a description? Yes, all the description details are present.
However, the details are not formatted.
Yes, the description is present in the
format defined while importing the trap.
Will the trap display the trap variable
values?
Yes Yes (by default), provided the format
string values are not removed prior to
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