OpenManage Enterprise 4.1.x User's Guide

Alert policies

This topic explains the concept of alert policies and how they can be useful. For instructions on creating, editing, enabling, disabling, and deleting alert policies, see Configuring and managing alert policies.

Alert policies enable you to configure and send specific alerts for specific devices or components to a specific destination such as email, mobile, syslog server and so on. Alerts help you to monitor and manage devices effectively.

Use alert policies to perform the following actions based on certain alert characterizations:

• Send an email to a specified email address.
• Forward an alert as an SNMP trap.
• Send an alert to a syslog server.
• Ignore the alert.
• Send an alert to a phone through an SMS notification.
• Perform device power control actions such as turning on or turning off a device when an alert of a predefined category is generated.
• Run a remote script.
• Mobile push notification with a registered device through OpenManage Mobile application.

To view, create, edit, enable, disable, and delete alert policies, click Alerts > Alert Policies.