Dell 745N manual Alert Log Messages From Server Administrator, Configuring Snmp Properties

Alert Log Messages From Server Administrator

Server Administrator generates alert messages that appear in the SNMP event log file. Alert log messages contain information, status, warning, and failure messages for drive, temperature, fan, and power conditions.

To see the trap logs, perform the following steps:

1.Log into the NAS Manager.

2.Click Maintenance.

3.Click Remote Desktop, and then log in to the NAS system as an administrator.

NOTE: The default administrative user name is administrator and the default password is powervault.

4.Double-click NAS Utilities on the NAS system desktop.

5.In the NAS Utilities window, double-click System Tools, and then double-click Event Viewer.

6.Double-click the type of log you want to view.

Configuring SNMP Properties

Configuring SNMP Community Properties

1.Log into the NAS Manager.

2.Click Maintenance.

3.Click Remote Desktop, and then log in to the NAS system as an administrator.

NOTE: The default administrative user name is administrator and the default password is powervault.

4.Right-click My Appliance, and click Manage.

5.In the Computer Management window, double-click Services and Applications, and then double-click Services.

6.In the right pane, double-click SNMP Service to display the SNMP Service Properties window.

7.Click the Security tab, and then click Send authentication trap.

Select this option if you want a trap message sent when authentication fails.

8.Select Accepted community names, and then click Add.

9.Select Community Rights, and then select a permission level for this host to process SNMP requests from the selected community.

10.To view a description of a dialog box item, right-click the item, and then click What's This?

11.In Community Name, type a case-sensitive community name, and then click Add.

12.In SNMP Service Properties, specify whether or not to accept SNMP packets from a host:

•To accept SNMP requests from any host on the network, regardless of identity, click Accept SNMP packets from any host.

•To limit acceptance of SNMP packets, click Accept SNMP packets from these hosts, click Add, type the appropriate host name, Internet protocol (IP) or Internetwork Packet eXchange (IPX) address, and then click Add again.

•You can make changes to an entry by clicking the entry, and then clicking Edit. You can delete a selected entry by clicking Remove.

NOTE: If you remove all the community names, including the default name Public, SNMP does not respond to any community names presented. You can add additional community and host names as necessary.

NOTE: If you change existing SNMP settings, your changes take effect immediately. You do not need to restart the SNMP service for your settings to take effect. If you are configuring SNMP for the first time, you must restart SNMP before these settings take effect.

Configuring SNMP Agent Properties

1.Click Maintenance.

2.Click Remote Desktop, and then log in to the NAS system as an administrator.