Alert Rule Property Definitions

ILOM offers up to five property values for defining an alert rule, they are as follows:

For more information about each of these property values, see the following table.

Property Name

Requirement

Description

 

Alert Type

Mandatory

The alert type property specifies the message format and the delivery method that ILOM will use when creating and sending the alert message. You can choose to configure one of the following alert types:

  • IPMI PET Alerts. IPMI Platform Event Trap (PET) alerts are supported on all Sun server platforms and modules, with the exception of a Sun Chassis Monitoring Module (CMM). For each IPMI PET alert you configure in ILOM, you must specify an IP address for an alert destination and one of four supported alert levels. Note that the alert destination specified must support the receipt of IPMI PET messages. If the alert destination does not support the receipt of IMPI PET messages, the alert recipient will not be able to decode the alert message.

  • SNMP Trap Alerts. ILOM supports the generation of SNMP Trap alerts to a customer-specified IP destination. All destinations specified must support the receipt of SNMP Trap messages. Note that SNMP Trap alerts are supported on rackmount servers and blade server modules.

  • Email Notification Alerts. ILOM supports the generation of Email Notification alerts to a customer-specified email address. To enable the ILOM client to generate Email Notification alerts, ILOM initially requires you to configure the name of the outgoing SMTP email server that would be sending the email alert messages. For more information, see Configure SMTP Client for Email Notification Alerts.

 

Alert Destination

Mandatory

The alert destination property specifies where to send the alert message. The alert type determines which destination you can choose to send an alert message. For example, IPMI PET and SNMP Trap alerts must specify an IP address destination. Email Notification alerts must specify an email address. If the proper format is not entered for an alert destination, ILOM will report an error.

 

Alert Level

Mandatory

Alert levels act as a filter mechanism to ensure alert recipients only receive the alert messages that they are most interested in receiving. Each time you define an alert rule in ILOM, you must specify an alert level.

The alert level determines which events generate an alert. The lowest level alert generates alerts for that level and for all alert levels above it. ILOM offers the following alert levels with Minor being the lowest alert offered:

  • Minor. This alert level generates alerts for informational events, lower and upper non-critical events, upper and lower critical events, and, upper and lower non-recoverable events.

  • Major. This alert level generates alerts about upper and lower non-critical events, upper and lower critical events, and, upper and lower nonrecoverable events.

  • Critical. This alert level generates alerts for upper and lower critical events and upper and lower non-recoverable events.

  • Down. This alert level generates alerts for only upper non-recoverable and lower non-recoverable events.

  • Disabled. Disables the alert. ILOM will not generate an alert message.

Note

All the alert levels will enable the sending of a alert with the exception of Disabled.

Important. ILOM supports alert level filtering for all IPMI traps and Email Notification traps. ILOM does not support alert level filtering for SNMP traps.To enable the sending of an SNMP trap (but not filter the SNMP trap by alert level) you can choose anyone of the following options: minor, major, critical, or down. To disable the sending of an SNMP trap, you must choose the disabled option.

 

SNMP Version

Optional

The SNMP version property enables you to specify which version of an SNMP trap that you are sending. You can choose to specify: 1, 2c, or 3. This property value only applies to SNMP trap alerts.

 

SNMP Communnity Name

or

User Name

Optional

The SNMP community name or user name property enables you to specify the community string or SNMPv3 user name used in the SNMP trap alert.

  • For SNMP traps v1 or v2c, you can choose to specify a community name value for a an SNMP alert.

  • For SNMP v.3, you can choose to specify a user name value for an SNMP alert.

Important. If you choose to specify an SNMP v.3 user name value, you must define this user in ILOM as SNMP user. If you do not define this user as an SNMP user, the trap receiver will not be able to decode the SNMP trap alert. For more information about defining an SNMP user in ILOM.

 

SMTP Setting

Descriptions

SMTP

Select this checkbox to enable this state.

SMTP Server IP

Type the IP address of the outgoing SMTP email server that will process the email notifications.

SMTP Port

Type the port number of the outgoing SMTP email server.

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