This topic describes the Configure Alert Standard Format Profile
Builder in IBM® Director.
Fields
- Left pane
- existing profiles
- Allows you to select existing profiles from the list of existing profiles.
- New Profile
- Creates a new profile.
- Save Profile
- Saves new profiles or saves changes to an existing profile.
- Apply changes
- Applies changes made to the profile.
- Profile status
- Displays the current status of the profile.
- Enable changes
- When selected, allows a user to make changes to a profile
- Right pane
- General tab
- System GUID
- Displays the system globally unique identifier (GUID) of the system.
- Physical (MAC) Address
- Displays the message authentication code (MAC) address of the system.
- Enable ASF Hardware
- Enables the use of Alert Standard Format Hardware.
- Enable All Platform Event Traps
- Platform Event Trap (PET) events provide advance warning of possible system
failures. PET events are out-of-band events received by IBM Director Server
from systems with ASF or an IPMI baseboard management controller. Not all
ASF systems generate all of the PET events. Select the Enable All Platform
Event Traps check box in order for IBM Director Server to receive PET
events.
- Configuration tab
- NIC (IP address)
- When checked, specifies the IP address of the network interface card (NIC).
- Management Server (IP address):
- When checked, specifies the IP address of the Management Server.
- Gateway (IP address)
- When checked, specifies the IP address of the Gateway
- Subnet Mask
- When checked, specifies IP address of the subnet mask.
- Heartbeat frequency (seconds)
- When checked, specifies the frequency of heartbeat events.
- Minimum Watchdog timer (seconds)
- Displays the minimum number of seconds for the watchdog timer.
- Minimum ASF Sensor Inter Poll Wait Time (5 ms units)
- Displays the minimum time to wait for the ASF Sensor Inter Poll.