User guide

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•Acknowledge Alarm
• Unacknowledge Alarm
• Clear Alarm
• Show Performance
Follow these steps to get started:
1 Click to go to the Alarms page from the default screens.
2 In the Alarms portlet, click on an Alarm of interest.
NOTE:
If your Alarms portlet displays a graph of different alarm types, clicking on s particular alarm severity
filters the list below to only display that severity. Click again to undo the filter effect.
3
Right-click on the selected alarm, and then click Acknowledge Alarm to take ownership of the
alarm.
4 Right-click then click Assign User to select a user owner for the alarm.
5 Right-click then click Clear Alarm to remove the alarm from list.
6 Click the plus (+) in the upper right corner of the Alarms portlet to go into Expanded mode
where you can view more details about an alarm.
Performance Management -
Troubleshooting
In addition to troubleshooting faults, you can also monitor device performance with Dell
OpenManage Network Manager.
Monitors
Monitors display some critical performance
metrics for devices on the network, including:
•Network availability
•Bandwidth capacity utilization
•Buffer usage and errors
•CPU and memory utilization
•Interface errors and discards
•Network latency
•Node and interface status
To get started using monitors, follow these steps:
1 Click the Performance page, and find the
Resource Monitors portlet on that page.