Users Guide

8. Click Back to Remote Access User Window to go back to the Remote Access Users window.
NOTE: Six additional user entries are configurable when DRAC is installed. This results in a total of 16 users. The same
username and password rules apply to BMC/iDRAC and RAC users. When DRAC/iDRAC6 is installed, all the 16 users
entries are allocated to DRAC.
Setting Platform Event Filter Alerts
To configure the most relevant BMC features, such as Platform Event Filter (PEF) parameters and alert destinations using
Server Administrator Instrumentation Service:
1. Click the System object.
2. Click the Alert Management tab.
3. Click Platform Events.
The Platform Events window allows you to take individual action on specific platform events. You can select those events
for which you want to take shutdown actions and generate alerts for selected actions. You can also send alerts to specific IP
address destinations of your choice.
NOTE: You must be logged in with Administrator privileges to configure the BMC PEF Alerts.
NOTE: The Enable Platform Event Filters Alerts setting disables or enables PEF alert generation. It is independent
of the individual platform event alert settings.
NOTE: System Power Probe Warning and System Power Probe Failure are not supported on the PowerEdge
systems without PMBus support although Server Administrator allows you to configure them.
4. Choose the platform event for which you want to take shutdown actions or generate alerts for selected actions and click
Set Platform Events.
The Set Platform Events window allows you to specify the actions to be taken if the system is to be shut down in response
to a platform event.
5. Select one of the following actions:
● None
● Reboot System
Shuts down the operating system and initiates system startup, performing BIOS checks and reloading the operating
system.
● Power Off System
Turns off the electrical power to the system.
● Power Cycle System
Turns the electrical power to the system off, pauses, turns the power on, and reboots the system. Power cycling is useful
when you want to reinitialize system components such as hard drives.
● Power Reduction
Throttles the CPU.
CAUTION:
If you select a Platform Event shutdown action other than None or Power Reduction, your
system shuts down forcefully when the specified event occurs. This shutdown is initiated by firmware and
is done without first shutting down the operating system or any running applications.
NOTE: Power reduction is not supported on all systems. Power Supply Monitoring and Power Monitoring features
are available only for systems that have two or more redundant, hot-swappable power supplies installed. These
features are unavailable for permanently installed, non-redundant power supplies that lack power management
circuitry.
6. Select the Generate Alert check box for the alerts to be sent.
NOTE: To generate an alert, you must select both Generate Alert and the Enable Platform Events Alerts settings.
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