Dell MX7000 Advanced Filtering Owner's Manual
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Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 Advance Filtering technical white paper covering audit logs and alert logs management. Details navigating to Audit Logs in the MX7000 chassis, understanding audit log page sections, applying audit log filters for targeted event analysis, and exporting audit logs for compliance and troubleshooting. Also covers the deployment of Management Module Network using the LCD control panel. Authored by Dahir Herzi and Gilberto Osuna Gonzalez (Jan 2019).
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MX7000 Advance Filtering
Dell EMC Technical White Paper
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MX7000 Advance Filtering Dell EMC Technical White Paper
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Revisions Revisions Date Description Jan 2019 Initial release Acknowledgements This paper was produced by the following members of the Dell EMC storage engineering team: Author: Dahir Herzi and Gilber...
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Acknowledgements Table of contents Revisions...............................................................................................................................................................
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Introduction Introduction The purpose of this whitepaper is to describe Audit logs and Alert logs in MX7000 chassis. Audit logging presents information about the operations/actions that have been invo...
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Audit Log Filters in figure 2. Expanding the advanced filters will show all available filtering criteria for Audit Logs. There is also an option named ‘Clear All Filters’ which will clear out any appl...
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Audit Log Filters Description Contains Filter applied to description. This is more like a LIKE and will audit logs based in this condition. Message ID Message ID to be filter out from audit logs. Audi...
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Audit Log Filters Audit Logs Filters (Filter by Start and End Time) Audit Logs Filters (Filter by User) Audit Logs Filters (Filter by Source Address) 7 MX7000 Deployment of Management Module Network u...
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Audit Log Export Audit Logs Filters (Filter by Category) Audit Logs Filters (Filter by Description Contains) Audit Logs Filters (Filter by Message ID) Audit Log Export Audit Logs entries can be export...
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Alert Logs Audit Logs Filters (Export All) Export all will show a ‘Save As’ window and from there we can navigate to the location where we want to save our current Audit Logs. Audit Logs Filters (Save...
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Navigate to Alert Logs Alert log entries are the events generated by devices such as SLEDs, IOMs, chassis controller or internal events by MX7000 chassis. These events are recorded and presented in th...
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Alert Log Filters At the right side of the page there’s an information bock that shows relevant information from the event generated by the device. Like the domain corresponding to the event, detailed...
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Alert Log Filters • Work Notes Subcategory Indicates which subcategories of the selected category can be filter. This list is variable, and it can contain 1 to N subcategories per selected category. I...
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Alert Log Filters Alert Log Filters (Filter by Acknowledge) Alert Log Filters (Filter by Start Date and End Date) Alert Log Filters (Filter by Source Name) 13 MX7000 Deployment of Management Module Ne...
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Appendix Alert Log Filters (Filter by Category and Subcategory) Alert Log Filters (Filter by Message) Appendix REST calls can be performed to retrieve filtered audit and alert logs. Perform REST reque...
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Audit Logs Filters (REST) Filter Name Description Severity Filter by the severity of the EEMI message. Critical, Warning and Informational. Message Filter by the EEMI message contents. Category Filter...
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Get all Audit Logs Get all Audit Logs URI Description /api/Application Service/Audit Logs Returns a collection of audit logs. The operation to perform is GET. The following is an output sample of the ...
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Get a Single Audit Log "Id": 385, "Severity": "1000", "Message": "Successfully logged in from GUI .", "Category": "Audit", "U...
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Appendix II. Using REST to apply filters to Alert Logs Single Audit Logs REST Payload Sample Output: "@odata.context": "/api/$metadata#Application Service.Audit Log/$entity", "...
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Get all Alert Logs Category Id Filter by category id – default 0 Sub Category Id Filter by sub category id – default 0 Sub Category Name Filter by sub category name Message Filter by message Time Stam...
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Get all Alert Logs The operation to perform is GET. The following is an output sample of the response: All Alert Logs REST Payload Sample Output: "@odata.context": "/api/$metadata#Colle...
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Get all Alert Logs ing</datatype><value>D123499</value></varbind><varbind><oid>1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.5.3.1.5.0</oid><dat atype>Octet String</datatype...
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Get all Alert Logs "Alert Device Id": 26990, "Alert Device Name": "D123499", "Alert Device Type": 1000, "Alert Device Ip Address": "10.35.0.153&q...
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Get a Single Alert Log "Recommended Action": "Contact the i DRAC administrator and make sure the username and password credentials used are correct. Check the Lifecycle Controller Log (...
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Get a Single Alert Log Payload Sample Output: "@odata.context": "/api/$metadata#Alert Service.Alert/$entity", "@odata.type": "#Alert Service.Alert", "@odat...
Manual Details
| Brand | Dell |
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| Pages | 24 |
| File Size | 2.70 MB |
| Published | July 03, 2026 |
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Frequently Asked Questions
What information does the Audit Log provide?
It details operations and actions performed in the environment, including the time, the user who invoked it, source, message id, and a brief description.
How are authentication attempts logged in the system's alerts?
The Alert Logs can capture notification events like SNMP Traps or REDFISH, which helps monitor unauthorized iDRAC access attempts.
Can I filter the logs using REST?
Yes, the document describes applying filters to both Audit Logs and Alert Logs using dedicated REST methods (Appendix I & II).
What types of events are recorded in Alert Logs?
Alert Logs record notification events such as SNMP Traps or REDFISH events generated by devices or internal chassis components.