Users Guide

Customizing Dell Printer Management Pack

The Dell Printer Management Pack allows you to customize discovery, monitoring, and alert rules of your Dell printers. You can customize

the following components:

• Monitors — Assess various conditions that can occur in monitored objects. The result of this assessment determines the health state

of a target and the alerts that are generated.

• Object Discoveries — Finds objects on a network that requires monitoring.

• Rules — Collects data, such as events generated by managed objects.

Unit Monitors

You can customize the following parameters of Dell Printer Management Pack unit monitors by using the following overrides:

• Enabled — Allows you to enable or disable monitors. You can set the Override setting to True or False.

NOTE: The default setting is True.

• Interval In Seconds — The frequency (in seconds) with which the management pack polls the Dell Printers to check the health of a

component. The default value for this attribute is 21600 seconds (6 hours).

Object discoveries

You can customize the Dell Printer Management Pack discovery parameters, using the following overrides:

• Enabled — Allows you to enable or disable. You can set the Override Setting to True or False.

NOTE: The default setting is True.

• Interval in Seconds — Specifies the frequency (in seconds) with which the Dell Printer Management Pack discovers the component

instance and attributes of your Dell printer. The default value for this attribute is 86400 seconds (24 hours).

Customizing alert rules

You can customize the alert rules by setting override parameters for the rules.

To customize the rules:

1. In the OpsMgr console, click Authoring.

2. In the Authoring pane, navigate to Management Pack Objects, and click Rules.

3. In the Rules pane, expand the Dell printer instance and select a rule.

4. Right-click the rule and select Overrides.

5. Select Disable the Rule and any of the sub options to disable the rule.

Select Override the Rule and any of the sub options to set the override parameters for the rule.

You can also change the severity setting for the rule.

6. Click OK to apply the override parameter to your rule or click Cancel to cancel the changes.

Dell Printer Management Pack operations