Owner's Manual

120 Configuring Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems
Creating an Alert Action Filter
Now, Tom will create an Alert Action Filter that includes each of the four
administrators who work for him. In the following procedure, you can see
how creating custom groups for the two types of servers make it easier to
create the filters.
To create an alert action filter, Tom performs the following steps:
1
Tom selects Alerts  Filters from the menu bar.
The
Alert Filters window appears.
2 Tom expands the Alert Filters in the navigation tree and right-clicks
Alert Action Filters . He selects New Action Alert Filter .
The
Add Filter Wizard appears.
Tom plans to create three filters, one for each of the notification event actions
that he is going to create for each of his administrators. Tom has to create each
of his three filters one at a time. Tom creates filters for the following:
• Datacenter first shift (M–F, 7 A.M.–7 P.M.)
• Datacenter second shift (M–F, 7 P.M.–7A.M.)
• Weekend administrator (7 P.M. Friday to 7 A.M. Monday)
3 Tom enters a descriptive name for the filter.
Tom chooses
DC 1st Shift as his name for the first filter. The names he
chooses for the other two filters will be
DC 2nd Shift , and Weekend Admin .
4 Under Severity , Tom selects the severity of the events for which he wants
to receive alerts and logs.
For the DC 1st Shift filter, Tom selects
Warning and Critical and clicks Next .
5 Under Alert Category Configuration , Tom selects Select All because he
wants to monitor all of the servers in his enterprise and clicks
Next .
6 Under Device/Group Configuration , Tom selects the name of device or
group to associate with the new action alert filter.
Tom selects
Datacenter Servers , the name of one of the custom groups he
created previously and clicks
Next .
7 Under Date/Time Range Configuration , Tom enters values for any or all
of the optional categories.