Dell 2.3 manual Monitoring the Datacenter And Host System, Understanding Events And Alarms

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End-To-End Hardware Management

The goal of end-to-end hardware management is to provide the system health status and up-to-date infrastructure information that an administrator needs to respond to critical hardware events without leaving the Dell Management Center or vCenter. End-to-end hardware management within the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter is divided into four separate parts:

•Monitoring

•Inventory

•Advanced host management

•Warranty retrieval

Monitoring the Datacenter And Host System

Datacenter and host system monitoring lets an administrator monitor infrastructure health by displaying hardware (server and storage) and virtualization-related events on the Tasks & Events tab in vCenter. Additionally, critical hardware alerts can trigger the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter alarms. Few alarms defined for Dell virtualization-related events can move the managed host system to maintenance mode.

To perform monitoring:

1.Configure the Event and Alarm settings.

2.Configure SNMP OMSA trap destinations, if needed.

3.Use the Tasks & Events tab in vCenter to review event information.

Understanding Events And Alarms

You can edit events and alarms from the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter within Manage → Settings tab. From here you can select the Event Posting Level, enable Alarms for Dell Hosts, or Restore Default Alarms. You can configure events and alarms for each vCenter or all at once for all registered vCenters.

There are four event posting levels.

Table 1. Event Posting Level Descriptions

Event	Description
Do not post any Events	Do not have the OpenManage Integration for VMware
	vCenter forward any events or alerts into related vCenters.
Post all Events	Post all events, including informal events, that the
	OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter receives
	from managed Dell hosts into related vCenters.
Post only Critical and Warning Events	Posts only events with either Critical or Warning criticality
	into related vCenters.

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