Owner's Manual

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Event Management
This chapter provides information on event types, severity levels, supported PDU/UPS events, and how to manage
Power Center events.
You can receive events indicating an abnormal power/temperature situation in the data center. Power Center detects:
• Pre-defined events
• Custom events
Power Center uses port 6553 to listen for internal events. If another application is configured to use port 6553, you must
change it to reserve port 6533 for Power Center.
Power Center uses port 162 to listen for events from external devices. If the SNMP Trap service exists and uses port 162,
Power Center automatically uses port 1162 to receive external events forwarded by the SNMP trap service.
Events
The Events screen lists all events at all three severity levels.
• Critical: Errors that cause managed devices or Power Center to stop working properly. You must take action to
resolve a critical issue. A list of critical events can be accessed by clicking the red event notification icon
located in the upper right portion of any screen (if the notification icon is not present, there are no critical events
present in the system).
• Warning: Errors that require attention. Look into the root cause and decide whether to take action.
• Informative: Indicates an informational event that is not an error or warning. You do not need to take action.
From the Events screen you can:
• View all events. The Events screen lists twenty events per page. Click the arrow buttons to view the previous or
next pages. You can sort the Events table by Severity, Entity, Event Type, Acknowledged By, Time, or Notes by
clicking on the table header. To view comments for any event, scroll to the right and click the icon in the
Notes column.
• Add a note to an event. This is useful when you want to communicate why the event was triggered, or what
action was taken in response to the event.
• Manually delete an event.
• Manually delete all events.
• Sort events.
• Filter events.
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