Owner's Manual

Configuring Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems 109
Creating an Alert Action
Now, Jane wants to create an Alert Action that is triggered by the Alert Action
Filter she just set up.
To create an Alert Action:
1
Jane selects Alerts  Actions from the menu bar.
2 Jane right-clicks Alert Actions in the navigation tree and selects New Alert
Action
.
The
Add Alert Action Wizard appears.
3 Jane gives the action a logical name in the Name field.
4 From the Ty p e pull-down menu, Jane chooses Email .
NOTE: Jane could also choose Trap Forwarding or Application Launch from the
action type pull-down list. Trap Forwarding allows large-scale enterprise
managers to send SNMP traps to a specific IP address or host. Application
Launch allows an administrator to specify an executable to run when the alert
action filter is met.
NOTE: Any trap forwarded by IT Assistant will not have the EnterpriseOID,
Generic TrapId, and Specific Trap ID of the original trap. These values will
appear in the description of the forwarded trap.
5 In the E-mail Configuration dialog, Jane specifies a valid e-mail address
(within your enterprise’s SMTP server group) to receive the automatic
notification.
NOTE: Jane can test the e-mail configuration she specified by using the Test
Action button. A success/failure message will be issued. A success should be
interpreted as IT Assistant sending the message, not that the recipient
received it. For more information on using the Test Action button, see the
Troubleshooting topic in the
IT Assistant Online Help .
NOTE: To send e-mail through IT Assistant, the enterprise’s SMTP server
must be correctly configured. To configure the SMTP server, go to
Preferences
 Web Server on the top navigation bar, and configure the SMTP
Server Name (or IP Address) and DNS Suffix for SMTP Server.
6 In Alert Filter Associations , Jane identifies the Action Alert filter that will
trigger this e-mail.
She selects
Jane’s Network Warning and Critical— the name she gave the
Alert Action Filter she set up earlier.