Web Client Guide

104 Alarms | Key Portlets
Email Alarm —E-mail the alarm. Enter a subject an e-
mail address to which you want to mail the alarm’s
content, and click the + to add to the list of
addresses (the minus deletes them). Then click
Send Email. Clicking Cancel ends this operation
without sending e-mail. See SMTP Configuration
on page 67 for instructions about setting up e-mail
from Dell OpenManage Network Manager. See
Alarm Email on page 105 for an example of what
the content looks like.
Show Performance— Displays a performance dashboard
for the alarmed equipment. See Dashboard Views
on page 277 for more about these.
Aging Policy— This lets you select a policy that determines how long this alarm remains in the
database. See Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) on page 50 for information about
configuring such policies.
View as PDF — Create an Acrobat PDF document containing this portlet’s contents.
Share with User —Selecting this opens a screen where you can select the user you want to send the
selected alarm, and can enter a message you want to send with it. See Sharing on page 87.
Clicking
Share Asset sends a chat message to the selected user with a link that opens to
display the Alarm Snap Panels for the selected item.
Tip
Hover your cursor over the Device IP Address column, and a
tooltip appears with information about the alarm source’s
Model, Vendor, Discovery Date, and a Ping Rate bar graph.
This can also include other device-dependent items. For
example: bar graphs to display the % CPU [utilization], %
Memory, and Description.
The convention indicating such tooltips are available is the
question mark that appears next to the cursor when you
hover it over the displayed field.
Alarm Snap Panels
These include the following:
Alarm Details —The source, Severity , Message , Date Opened , and so on.
MIB Details —The Notification OID, and MIB Text for the selected alarm.
Reference Tree —The connection between the alarm and its source in tree form.
Total Occurrences by Date —A graph of the total occurrences of this alarm, by date.