About IPMI Alerts

ILOM supports alerts in the form of IPMI Platform Event Trap (PET) alerts. Alerts provide advance warning of possible system failures. Alert configuration is available from the SP on your server or blade. IPMI PET alerts are supported on all Sun server platforms and modules, with the exception of the Chassis Monitoring Module (CMM).

Each Sun server platform is equipped with a number of IPMI-compliant sensors that measure volatages, temperatures, and other service-related attributes of the system. ILOM automatically polls these sensors and posts any events crossing a threshold to a ILOM event log. In addition, ILOM generates alert messages to one or more alert destinations that you specify with IP address(es). The alert destination specified must support the receipt of IPMI PET messages. If the alert destination does not support IPMI PET messages, the alert recipeint will not be able to decode the alert message.

When configuring IPMI PET alerts, you must also specify an alert level, which filters alert messages so that alert recipeints only recieve those messages that they are most interetsed in receiving.

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