Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Version 8.5 User's Guide

Managed system preferences

When you log in to a remote system, the preferences home page defaults to the Node Configuration window under the Preferences tab.

Click the Server Administrator object to enable or disable access to users with User or Power User privileges. Depending on the user’s group privileges, the Server Administrator object action window may have the Preferences tab.

Under the Preferences tab, you can:

• Enable or disable access to users with User or Power User privileges
• Select the format of alert messages
  NOTE: The possible formats are traditional and enhanced. The default format is traditional, which is the legacy format.
• Enables the Automatic Backup and clear ESM log entries.

  By default, the feature is disabled. Enabling the feature allows you to create an automatic backup of ESM Logs. After the backup is created, ESM logs of the Server Administrator and the SEL entries of iDRAC/BMC are cleared. The process is repeated whenever the logs are full.

  The backup is saved to:

  Windows: <Install_root>\omsa\log\omsellog.xml

  Linux and ESXi: <Install_root>/var/log/openmanage/omsellog.xml

  NOTE: This feature is available only on Dell’s 10th generation and 11th generation of PowerEdge systems. The iDRAC provides automatic backup and SEL log clearing capabilities starting from 12th generation PowerEdge servers or later.
• Select or clear the severities of log entries logged in to the operating systems main event log. Select the possible values: Log Critical, Log Warning, or Log Informational
  NOTE: By default all the options are selected. The OS logging filter feature is available when the OS logging filter component is installed.
• Select Enable to log all unmonitored ESM sensor events. By enabling this feature, Server Administrator generates SNMP traps, OS Logs and Alerts for all unmonitored sensors.
• Configure the Command Log Size
• Configure SNMP