Users Guide

1. Click the SMS cell corresponding to the alert policy.
2. In the Alert Actions: SMS dialog box, type phone number.
3. Click Finish. A tick mark is displayed in the cell. SMS message is sent when an alert is received that meets the set policy criteria.
• Perform a power control action on the device:
1. Click the Power Control cell corresponding to the alert policy.
2. In the Alert Actions: Power Control dialog box, select to indicate if you want power cycle, turn off, or turn on a device.
3. Click Finish. A tick mark is displayed in the cell. SMS message is sent when an alert is received that meets the set policy criteria.
• Run a remote script:
1. Click the Remote Script Execution cell corresponding to the alert policy.
2. When prompted, click YES.
3. On the Script Execution tab, under Remote Command Setting, complete the tasks in Creating a Remote command job for
managing devices. A tick mark is displayed in the cell. The specified command is run when an alert is received that meets the set
policy criteria.
Related tasks
Deleting alert policies
Disabling alert policies
Enabling alert policies
Editing alert policies
Creating alert policies
Creating alert policies
NOTE:
To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release, you must have necessary user privileges. See
Role-based OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release user privileges.
1. Click Alert Policies > Create.
2. In the Create Alert Policy dialog box, in the Name and Description section, type the name and description of the alert policy.
a) To enable an alert policy by default, select the Enable Policy check box.
b) Click Next.
3. In the Category section, select the All check box to apply the alert policy to all the available categories. By default, the following
categories are displayed, but not applied. To view sub-categories under each category, expand the category:
a) Click Next.
4. In the Target section, add devices or groups. See Selecting target devices and device groups.
a) Click Next.
5. In the Date and Time section, in Date Range, select the from and to dates, and then select the time frame.
a) Select the check boxes corresponding to the dates on which the alert policies must be run.
b) Click Next.
6. In the Severity section, select the severity level of the alert for which this policy must be activated.
a) To select all the severity categories, select the All check box.
b) Click Next.
7. In the Actions section, select one or more check boxes to initiate the following actions when the policy is run:
• Send email to a designated recipient by selecting the Email check box, and specifying data in the fields.
• Configure SNMP alerts by clicking Enable next to the SNMP Trap Forwarding check box. In the SNMP Configuration dialog
box, type or select data. See Configuring SMTP, SNMP, and Syslog alerts.
• Configuring Syslog properties.
• Select the Ignore check box to ignore the alert message and not activate the alert policy.
• Send SMS to a telephone number by typing a phone number in To.
• Control the power of the device by power cycling, turning on, or turn off the device. To shut down an OS before performing
power control actions, select the Shut down OS First check box.
• Run a remote command by clicking Enable next to Remote Script Execution:
• In the Remote Command Setting dialog box, type or select information to set up the remote commands you want to run.
See Executing remote commands and scripts.
Monitoring device alerts
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