PowerFlex 4.X: Managing events and alerts

Managing events and alerts

Use this section to manage events and alerts.

Modifying an external source

You can edit the information about how PowerFlex Manager receives an event.

Steps

1. Go to Settings > Events and Alerts > Notification Policies.
2. From the Sources pane, click the source that you want to modify. The Edit Source window opens.
3. Edit the information and click Submit.

Modifying a destination

You can edit the information about where event and alert data that is processed by PowerFlex Manager should be sent.

Steps

1. Go to Settings > Events and Alerts > Notification Policies.
2. From the Destinations pane, click the destination whose information you want to modify. The Edit Source window opens.
3. Edit the information and click Submit.

Add a notification policy

When you add a notification policy, you define the rules for processing events or alerts from sources, and to which destinations that information should be sent.

Steps

1. Go to Settings > Events and Alerts > Notification Policies.
2. Click Create New Policy.
3. Enter a name and a description for the notification policy.
4. From the Source Type menu, select how you want events and alerts to be received. The source type options are:
   • Snmpv2c
   • Snmpv3
   • Syslog
   • Powerflex
   • Auditlog

PowerFlex related alerts are generated and forwarded to a webhook destination when the notification policy is configured with the Source Type set to Powerflex.

5. From the Resource Domain menu, select the resource domain that you want to add a notification policy to. The resource domain options are:
   • All
   • Management
   • Block (Storage)
   • File (Storage)
   • Compute (Servers, Operating Systems, virtualization)
   • Network (Switches, connectivity etc.)
   • Security (RBAC, certificates, CloudLink etc.)
6. Select the check box beside the severity levels that you want to associate with this policy. The severity indicates the risk (if any) to the system, in relation to the changes that generated the event message

7. Select the required destination. You can choose one or more destinations. For a webhook, you can have up to three destinations defined. For audit logs, you can configure up to four destinations.

   Note: The audit log policy is disabled by default. Click Configure Now to configure and activate the audit log policy.
8.  Click Submit.

Next steps

After adding a notification policy, you might need to perform additional configuration steps. For example, If you are setting up a notification policy for a webhook destination that uses BigPanda, you can optionally configure BigPanda to show the severity levels from PowerFlex Manager. To do this, you must configure the status mapping on the BigPanda site. Map the major and minor severity values from PowerFlex Manager to the Warning status for BigPanda.

See Dell PowerFlex Appliance with PowerFlex 4.x Administration Guide