User's Manual

Understanding Dell Server Management Pack Suite Operations 47
Customizing the Dell Server Management Pack
Suite
The Dell Server Management Pack Suite v4.0 allows you to customize
discovery, monitoring, and event processing of your Dell devices. You can
customize the following components of the Dell Management Packs:
• Monitors : Monitors to 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 : Object discoveries are used to find objects on a network
that need to be monitored.
•
Rules : Rules are used to collect data, such as events generated
by managed objects.
NOTE: See the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1/ R2
documentation for more information.
Unit Monitors
You can customize the following parameters of the Dell Server Management
Pack Suite v4.0 unit monitors by using overrides:
• Enabled : Allows you to enable or disable Monitors. You can choose the
Override Setting to be True or False.
• Interval in Seconds : The frequency (in seconds) with which the
Dell Management Pack polls the Dell device to check the health
of a component.
The unit monitors can be:
• Event Monitor : This Monitor is triggered by the event that the Dell
instrumentation logs in the Windows event log, indicating the health of
the corresponding object.
•
Unit Monitor : This Monitor is triggered by a periodic poll configured as
IntervalSeconds.