Dell DL4000 Appliance Deployment Guide

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Alerts and Monitoring

To enable alerts for both hardware and software changes you have two options — SNMP and SMTP. Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a commonly used network management protocol that allows SNMP-compatible management functions such as device discovery, monitoring, and event generation. SNMP provides network management of the TCP/IP protocol. You can use Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to set alerts and monitoring for your appliance.

To receive notifications, configure the options here:
NOTE: It is recommended that you configure alerts. You also have the option to skip configuring alerts, to skip configuring alerts go to step 3.
  1. You have the following options to enable alerts:
    • To enable system SNMP alerts, select Enable system SNMP alerts.
      1. In SNMP Community, enter one or more SNMP community names. Use commas to separate multiple community names.
      2. In SNMP Trap destinations, enter trap destinations and click Add.
    • To enable software SNMP alerts, select Enable software SNMP alerts option.
      1. In SNMP Community, enter one or more SNMP community names. Use commas to separate multiple community names.
      2. In SNMP Trap destinations, enter trap destinations and click Add.
  2. To set software alerts through email, select Notify via email option and enter the valid email address.
  3. Click Next.

The Access and Management page is displayed.

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