Owner's Manual

114 Configuring Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems
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 and click
Next .
She selects
Jane’s Network Warning and Critical— the name she gave the
Alert Action Filter she set up earlier.
7 A summary dialog shows Jane’s selections.
Jane verifies that the name of the Alert Action she assigned in step 3
appears in the
Summary of Alert Actions window.
Jane clicks
Finish to accept the changes.
As a result of how Jane has configured Alert Action Filters and Alert Actions
in IT Assistant, here is what will happen:
• IT Assistant will continuously monitor all servers and network switches
on Jane’s network.
• When any server or network switch reaches a warning or critical state,
the Alert Action Filter that Jane set up in IT Assistant will automatically
trigger the accompanying Alert Action.
• The Alert Action will send Jane an e-mail notification to the address she
specified.
• Jane then decides what action to take on the affected system, such as power
cycling the system, shutting it down, or running a remote command using
other IT Assistant capabilities.
Many more features are available in IT Assistant than those illustrated here.
Click the Help button in the appropriate IT Assistant dialog box to see
detailed Online Help about that feature.
Now, let us look at how a much larger enterprise might use IT Assistant to
accomplish basically the same tasks as Jane did for a small enterprise.