ILOM offers up to five property values for defining an alert rule, they are as follows:
Alert Type
Alert Level
Alert Destination
SNMP Version (SNMP Trap alerts only)
SNMP Community Name or User Name (SNMP Trap alerts only)
For more information about each of these property values, see the following table.
Property Name |
Requirement |
Description | |
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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:
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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:
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.
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. |