Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerStore Security Configuration Guide
- Contents
- Additional Resources
- Authentication and access
- Hardware root of trust
- Authenticating and Managing User Accounts, Roles, and Privileges
- Certificates
- Secure communication between PowerStore appliances within a cluster
- Secure communication for replication and data import
- vSphere Storage API for Storage Awareness support
- CHAP authentication
- Configuring CHAP
- External SSH access
- Configuring external SSH access
- NFS secure
- Security on file system objects
- File systems access in a multiprotocol environment
- Understanding Common AntiVirus Agent (CAVA)
- Code signing
- Communication security settings
- Auditing
- Data security settings
- Secure serviceability settings
- Operational description of SupportAssist
- SupportAssist options
- SupportAssist Connect via Gateway option
- SupportAssist Connect Directly option
- Requirements for SupportAssist Connect via Gateway
- Requirements for SupportAssist Connect Directly
- Configuring SupportAssist
- Configure SupportAssist
- CloudIQ
- Cybersecurity
- Security Alert Settings
- TLS cipher suites
- Directory Services
Security Alert Settings
This chapter describes the different methods available to notify administrators of alerts that occur on a PowerStore cluster.
Topics:
• Alert settings
Alert settings
PowerStore alerts inform administrators of actionable events that occur on the PowerStore cluster. These alerts can be
reported as shown in the following table.
Table 8. Alert settings
Alert notification
type
Description
Visual notification PowerStore Manager displays informational messages when users log in to the interface and in real
time to indicate when alert conditions occur. These messages provide basic information about the
alert condition.
NOTE: PowerStore visual alert notifications are not configurable.
Email notification Enables you to specify one or more email addresses to which to send alert messages. You can
configure the following settings:
● Email addresses to which to send storage system alerts.
● Severity level (Critical, Major, Minor, and Info) required for email notification.
NOTE: For PowerStore alert email notification to work, you must configure a target SMTP
server for the PowerStore cluster. PowerStore does not have an option of authentication to
an SMTP mail server. If your mail server requires all clients to authenticate to relay an email,
PowerStore cannot send email alerts through that mail server.
SNMP traps Transfer alert information to designated SNMP Managers (trap destinations) that act as repositories
for generated alert information by the PowerStore cluster. You can configure the following settings:
● Network Name or IP address of a network SNMP Manager
● Port number.
NOTE: The default port set for SNMP is 162. Valid port values are 162 or between 1024–
49151.
● Minimal Severity Level of Alerts: Notifications are sent for the configured severity level or higher.
● Version: Version used for SNMP traps (v2c or v3)
● Trap Community String: SNMP community string (applicable only to v2c SNMP destination)
● Security Level: Authentication security level (applicable only to a v3 SNMP destination)
● Username: Security Name of the SNMPv3 user sending the message (applicable only to a v3
SNMP destination)
● Password: Generated (applicable only to a v3 SNMP destination)
● Authentication protocol: Hashing algorithm used for SNMP traps (SHA or MD5) (applicable only
to a v3 SNMP destination)
● Privacy protocol: Encryption algorithm used for SNMP traps (TDES or AES) (applicable only to a
v3 SNMP destination)
SupportAssist SupportAssist provides an IP-based connection that enables Dell Support to receive error files and
alert messages from the PowerStore cluster, and to perform remote troubleshooting resulting in a
fast and efficient time to resolution.
NOTE: For SupportAssist to work, you must enable it on the PowerStore cluster.
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