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Overview of Redfish Eventing for iDRAC alerts
5 Manage iDRAC alerts by using the Redfish Eventing feature in YX3X and later PowerEdge servers
1 Overview of Redfish Eventing for iDRAC alerts
A server, in its lifetime, would go through several events such as fan failure, increase in temperature, Power
Supply Unit (PSU) failure, and driver software issues. These events must be captured and sent to the
customers for further actions. To do this, iDRAC provides a mechanism for notifying about alerts in different
ways such as SNMP alerts, Email alerts. Similarly, Redfish Eventing mechanism is also one of the ways to
send the iDRAC alerts. iDRAC alerts are broadly classified as shown in the infographics:
The Redfish Event Service supports the following event types:
The Redfish Event Service provides the ability to subscribe for the alerts generated in the iDRAC by using
Redfish Eventing.