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 for 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 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 Dell hosts, or restore default alarms. You can configure
events and alarms for each vCenter or all at once for all registered vCenters.
The following are the four event posting levels:
Table 25. Event posting level (continued)
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 hosts into related vCenters.
Post only critical and warning events Posts only events with either a Critical or Warning criticality
into related vCenters.
Post only virtualization-related critical and warning events Post virtualization-related events received from hosts into
related vCenters. The virtualization-related events are events
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