In ILOM you can configure up to 15 alert rules using the ILOM web interface or CLI. For each alert rule you configure in ILOM, you must define three or more properties about the alert depending on the alert type.
The alert type defines the messaging format and the method for sending and receiving an alert message. ILOM supports these three alert types:
IPMI PET alerts
SNMP Trap alerts
Email Notification alerts
All Sun server platforms support all three alert types with the exception of the Sun Chassis Monitoring Module (CMM). The Sun Chassis Monitoring Module supports SNMP Trap alerts and Email Notification alerts but it does not currently support IPMI PET alerts.
A brief discussion about each alert type, as well as the other properties you can use to define an alert rule is discussed further in the following section, Alert Rule Property Definitions.