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5.2.4 Creating a test event action plan in IBM Director

Once you have configured the Remote Supervisor Adapter to communicate with

IBM Director, we recommend you test the functionality to ensure proper

communication.

For more information on alerts and event management in IBM Director, see the

redbook

Implementing Systems Management Solutions using IBM Director

,

SG24-6188.

To verify the functionality of the Remote Supervisor Adapter in the x450, perform

the following steps:

1. Launch the IBM Director Console, either directly from the IBM Director Server

system or from a workstation with the IBM Director Console installed.

2. Click the

Event Action Plan Builder icon located in the IBM Director

Console.

3. The Event Action Plan Builder window will appear. Right-click

Event Action

Plan

in the left-hand pane and select New to create a new plan.

4. Provide a descriptive name for your plan and click

OK. For our testing, we

entered

RSA Test.

Figure 5-6 New event action plan

5. Once you click OK, your new event action plan will appear in the left-hand

pane under Event Action Plans.

6. In the middle pane, click the blue bullet next to

Simple Event Filter. A menu

tree will drop down showing all pre-defined event filters created during

installation of IBM Director. Click and drag

All Events to the event action plan

you just created. This will add the filter to the action plan. The All Events filter

will cause any event generated by the system to be reported to IBM Director,

and is good for testing. For production, you may wish to limit the events sent

to IBM Director.

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7. In the right-hand pane, right-click Send an Event Message to a Console

User

and choose Customize. This action will pop up the Message Console

on the console currently being used when the alert is triggered.

8. A new window will appear. For the message, type

&Text. This will show the

error message in the pop-up window. For User(s), type

*. This will cause the

message to appear on all current Console users. See Figure 5-7 for more

details.

Figure 5-7 Customize action configuration window

9. Click the Save icon in the upper left-hand corner of the window (looks like a

diskette) to save the changes.

10.Your new customized action should appear in the right-hand pane. Click and

hold the action and drag the icon to the filter you created.

11.Close the Event Action Plan Builder.

12.If you chose to configure the Remote Supervisor Adapter using Alert

Forwarding, continue with step 13. If you chose to configure your adapter

using SNMP, jump to step 14.

13.In the IBM Director Console, click and drag your test event to your IBM

Director Server system in the middle pane. See Figure 5-8 on page 132 for

how your configuration should look.

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Figure 5-8 Completed configuration

14.In the IBM Director Console, click and drag your completed test configuration

to the Remote Supervisor Adapter for the x450 located in the middle pane.

15.In either case, a pop-up window will appear notifying you that the event action

plan has been added (Figure 5-9 on page 133).

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Figure 5-9 Event action plan added

16.To complete testing, we recommend removing one of the fans from the top of

the x450. Within approximately 10 seconds, an alert should appear on the

Director Console similar to the one in Figure 5-10.

Figure 5-10 Message alert

Once functionality has been confirmed, you can now build event action plans to

suit your environment.

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