Server Management Ver. 2.01 User Manual

SMS Application
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It’s important for the administrator to know what’s happening with the server and take remedial actions
immediately if anything is abnormal. However, with traditional manual management methods, there’s
surely a reasonable (or unreasonable) delay to take remedial actions when events occur. Apart from this
disadvantage, the manual management of server systems will also take too much time and labor.
With SMS, timely and automatic management of servers becomes true. Once this software is installed
on the individual servers, the administrator can perform the management tasks from a remote
management console in the network. Thus the inconvenience aroused by the physical locations of the
individual servers is solved. Administrator or other persons can be informed of the events in time by
mails. They can also view the events information through event logs or reports as routine management
operations. SMS provides an event trigger mechanism, through which the pre-defined events can set off
a series of actions of the SMS agent. SMS also supports the IPMI hardware management. Like SMS
event trigger, the IPMI PEF (platform event filter) will be implemented, and the actions such as Power
Down, Power Cycle, and Send Alert will be carried out when there are any changes in the IPMI
hardware status. The automatic management is thus realized.
5.4.1 Viewing System Events
SMS provides two kinds of system event information: SMS events and IPMI events.
An SMS event reports not only the abnormal status of a hardware unit (e.g.: Fan Fail), but also the
normal status (e.g.: CPU Usage Level OK). In this case, administrator or others in charge will get a full
scope understanding or control of the individual server. SMS events are classified into three severity
levels which, from low to high, are informational, warning, and critical.
An IPMI event reports the status change of IPMI system.
You can view the system events mainly through the following ways:
 SMS Report
You can designate SMS to report the server status information and the software managing
information at regular intervals.
The report may contain information of the following major categories based on users’ selection:
Status and Summary, Hardware Inventory, Dynamic Information, Schedule Task Status, Events,
and Account.
For different purpose of the reports, you can select different categories of content.