About Alerts

ILOM supports alerts in the form of IPMI PET traps. Alert configuration is available from the service processor on each blade. You can access any service processor directly, or by drilling down to a specific blade from the Chassis Monitoring Module interface.

There are 15 alerts available per blade. For each alert, you can configure the severity of an alert and the notification destination.

While the IPMI PET format is a legal SNMP trap, the alerts are encoded in the standard IPMI octet string format. Many third party SNMP tools cannot deciper the octect string format. If this is your case, use a third-party IPMI tool, such as openipmi, to decode the string and read the event information.