Users Guide

44 Installing and Setting Up the DRAC 5
Configuring Platform Events
Platform event configuration provides a mechanism for configuring the remote access device to perform
selected actions on certain event messages. These actions include reboot, power cycle, power off, and
triggering an alert (Platform Events Trap [PET] and/or e-mail).
The filterable Platform Events include the following:
• Fan Probe Failure
• Battery Probe Warning
• Battery Probe Failure
• Discrete Voltage Probe Failure
• Temperature Probe Warning
• Temperature Probe Failure
• Chassis Intrusion Detected
• Redundancy Degraded
• Redundancy Lost
• Processor Warning
•Processor Failure
• Processor Absent
• PS/VRM/D2D Warning
• PS/VRM/D2D Failure
• Power Supply Absent
• Hardware Log Failure
• Automatic System Recovery
When a platform event occurs (for example, a fan probe failure), a system event is generated and
recorded in the System Event Log (SEL). If this event matches a platform event filter (PEF) in the
Platform Event Filters list in the Web-based interface and you have configured this filter to generate an
alert (PET or e-mail), then a PET or e-mail alert is sent to a set of one or more configured destinations.
If the same platform event filter is also configured to perform an action (such as rebooting the system),
the action is performed.
Configuring Platform Event Filters (PEF)
Configure your platform event filters before you configure the platform event traps or e-mail alert
settings.