Owner's Manual

Configuring Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems 129
• 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
Warni ng 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.
Tom selects different time and day values for each of the three filters.
Tom does not select date filters, but could use this value if he wanted to
create a filter and action for a vacation, an outside service vendor, or
another special situation.
For the DC 1st Shift filter, Tom enables the time range 7:00:00 A.M. to
7:00:00 P.M. and enables the days Monday through Friday.
For the DC 2nd Shift filter, Tom enables the time range 7:00:00 P.M. to
7:00:00 A.M. and enables the days Monday through Friday.
For the Weekend Admin filter, Tom specifies two filters (WA1 and WA2):
• For WA1, Tom enables the time range 7:00:00 P.M. to 7:00:00 A.M.
and selects the days Friday to Monday.
• For WA2, he enables the time range 7:00:00 A.M. to 7:00:00 P.M. and
selects the days Saturday and Sunday.
Tom clicks
Next .