Enabling Or Disabling Alerts Using Racadm; Enabling Or Disabling Alerts Using Idrac Settings Utility; Filtering Alerts; Filtering Alerts Using Idrac Web Interface - Dell iDRAC 8 User Manual

Enabling or disabling alerts using RACADM

Use the following command:
racadm set iDRAC.IPMILan.AlertEnable <n>
n=0 — Disabled
n=1 — Enabled

Enabling or disabling alerts using iDRAC settings utility

To enable or disable generating alerts or event actions:
1. In the iDRAC Settings utility, go to Alerts.
The iDRAC Settings Alerts page is displayed.
2. Under Platform Events, select Enabled to enable alert generation or event action. Else, select Disabled. For more information
about the options, see iDRAC Settings Utility Online Help.
3. Click Back, click Finish, and then click Yes.
The alert settings are configured.

Filtering alerts

You can filter alerts based on category and severity.
Related links
Enabling or disabling alerts
Configuring email alert, SNMP trap, or IPMI trap settings

Filtering alerts using iDRAC web interface

To filter the alerts based on category and severity:
NOTE: Even if you are a user with read-only privileges, you can filter the alerts.
1. In iDRAC Web interface, go to Overview → Server → Alerts. The Alerts page is displayed.
2. Under Alerts Filter section, select one or more of the following categories:
• System Health
• Storage
• Configuration
• Audit
• Updates
• Work Notes
3. Select one or more of the following severity levels:
• Informational
• Warning
• Critical
4. Click Apply.
The Alert Results section displays the results based on the selected category and severity.

Filtering alerts using RACADM

To filter the alerts, use the eventfilters command. For more information, see the iDRAC RACADM Command Line Interface
Reference Guide available at dell.com/idracmanuals.
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