Users Guide

Events, alarms, and health monitoring

The goal of hardware management is to provide the system health status and up-to-date infrastructure information that an administrator

needs to respond to critical hardware events without leaving the OMIVV plug-in or vCenter.

The data center and host system monitoring enables an administrator monitor infrastructure health by displaying hardware (server and

storage) and virtualization-related events on the Tasks and Events tab in vCenter. Also, critical hardware alerts can trigger the

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter alarms and few alarms defined for Dell virtualization-related events can move the managed

host system to maintenance mode.

To receive events from servers, OMIVV is configured as a Trap destination on all monitored devices and the various destinations are as

follows:

• SNMP Trap destination is set in iDRAC for 12th generation hosts and later.

• Trap destination is set in OMSA for hosts earlier than 12th generation.

• Trap destination is set in CMC or Management Module for chassis.

NOTE:

For an MX chassis in an MCM configuration, the trap destination is only configured on lead chassis. OMIVV will receive

alerts from all lead and member chassis using the lead chassis.

NOTE: OMIVV supports SNMP v1 and v2 alerts for 12th generation hosts and later. For hosts earlier than 12th

generation, OMIVV supports only SNMP v1 alerts.

To monitor, perform the following:

• Configure the Event and Alarm settings.

• Configure SNMP OMSA Trap destinations, if necessary.

• Use the Tasks and Events tab in vCenter to review event information.

Topics:

• About events and alarms for hosts

• About events and alarms for chassis

• Virtualization-related events

• Proactive HA events

• Viewing alarms and events setting

• Viewing events

• Hardware component redundancy health—Proactive HA

• Launching management consoles

About events and alarms for hosts

You can edit events and alarms from the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter within the Manage > Settings tab. From here,

you can select the event posting level, enable alarms for the Dell EMC hosts, or restore default alarms. You can configure events and

alarms for each vCenter or all at after for all registered vCenters.

The following are the four event posting levels:

Table 24. Event posting level

Event Description

Do not post any events Do not allow the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

forward any events or alerts into related vCenters.

Post all events Post all events, including informal events, that the OpenManage

Integration for VMware vCenter receives from managed Dell EMC

hosts into related vCenters.

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