Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Version 3.3.1 User's Guide

View the alert logs

Click OpenManage Enterprise > Alerts > Alert Log. A list of alerts is displayed. The severity of alerts, time when generated, source device that generated the alert, alert category, and alert message are displayed.

NOTE: By default only the unacknowledged alerts are displayed.

You can customize the list of the alerts using either the Advanced Filters, located on the top left hand side of the alert list, or by changing the Alert Display Settings in the Application Settings page. See Customize the alert display

NOTE: OpenManage Enterprise version 3.2 and above tracks the Last Updated By data point, however, in the previous versions this was not tracked. Therefore, be aware that if the Alert log is refined using the User advanced filter field, the acknowledged alerts from the previous versions will not be displayed.

• SEVERITY indicates the severity of an alert.
• ACKNOWLEDGE displays a tick mark when an alert is viewed and acknowledged. The total number of alerts generated is also displayed in the header of OpenManage Enterprise. See OpenManage Enterprise Graphical User Interface overview.
• Click the hyper-linked device name under SOURCE NAME to view and configure device properties that generated the alert. See Viewing and configuring devices.

  NOTE: Alerts cannot be filtered based on the IP address (source name) if the alert is generated from an undiscovered device or in case of an internal alert.

• CATEGORY indicates the alert category. For example, system health and audit.

  The ACKNOWLEDGE column corresponding to an alert displays a tick mark when the alert is viewed and acknowledged.

On this page, you can acknowledge, unacknowledge, ignore, export, delete, and archive alert data. For more information about archiving alerts, see View archived alerts.