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Enhancements to iDRAC7 Alert Notification
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Contents
Executive summary ................................................................................................................................................... 3
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................... 3
Feature enhancements ............................................................................................................................................ 3
Filtering alerts by category and severity levels ................................................................................................. 4
Setting event alerts ................................................................................................................................................ 5
Email alerts ......................................................................................................................................................... 6
SNMP Trap alerts ............................................................................................................................................... 8
IPMI PET alerts ................................................................................................................................................. 10
Remote System Log alerts ..............................................................................................................................12
WS Eventing alerts ............................................................................................................................................13
Testing configured events ................................................................................................................................. 14
Configuring network settings for alerts .......................................................................................................... 14
Summary .................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Figures
Figure 1. Alert categories and severity levels .................................................................................................. 4
Figure 2. Alert types ............................................................................................................................................. 5
Figure 3. Email alert configuration .................................................................................................................... 6
Figure 4. Authenticated email alert configuration ......................................................................................... 6
Figure 5. Configuring SNMP Trap alerts ........................................................................................................... 8
Figure 6. Setting a destination address ............................................................................................................ 9
Figure 7. Sample alert for a chassis intrusion event ...................................................................................... 11
Figure 8. Configuring Remote System Log alerts .........................................................................................12
Figure 9. Remote Syslog Settings .....................................................................................................................12
Figure 10. Configuring WS Eventing alerts .......................................................................................................13
Figure 11. Testing a configured event .............................................................................................................. 14
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