Owner's Manual

118 Configuring Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems
Creating Alert Action Filters and Alert Actions for
Tom’s Large Enterprise
IT Assistant offers Tom the ability to set up Alert Action Filters that specify
a set of system conditions. When these conditions are met, Tom can also
create an Alert Action in IT Assistant that is triggered by the Alert Action
Filter. The Alert Action takes whatever action Tom has defined.
NOTE: Dell OpenManage Server Administrator only sends events to IT Assistant as
SNMP traps. It does not send CIM indications for either instrumentation or storage
events from a server.
IT Assistant has three types of filters:
• Alert Action Filters – used to trigger actions when an alert condition is met
•
Ignore/Exclude Filters – used to ignore SNMP traps and CIM indications
when they are received.
•
Alert View Filters – used to customize the Alert Log view
Before Tom creates Alert Action Filters or Alert Actions for his 1,000-server
environment, he creates two custom groups to better facilitate event
notification. According to the scenario outlined previously, most of Tom’s
servers are housed in a datacenter while some are remote. Tom’s decides on
this strategy for setting up IT Assistant.
He decides to:
1
Create one custom group for the datacenter servers and one custom group
for the remote servers.
2 Create an Alert Action Filter for each of the four administrators who help
Tom with the remote and datacenter servers on different days and
different shifts.
3 Create an Alert Action that will be triggered by the corresponding Alert
Action Filter to automatically e-mail the appropriate administrator at the
appropriate day and time.