IDRA9 Series 4 REST API to configure remote syslog and enable alert configuration

The official RestAPI for idrac can be found under https://developer.dell.com/apis/2978/versions/5.xx/docs/0WhatsNew.md

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I cant help with your question. We do this kind of configuration with calling racadm directly. Right now iam strugling with configuring the alarm quick selection through racadm. I think they called it "sensors" or so.

Regards,
Joerg

You can patch to below API to configure remote syslog on iDRAC. 

redfish/v1/Managers/iDRAC.Embedded.1/Oem/Dell/DellAttributes/iDRAC.Embedded.1

{"Attributes":{
"SysLog.1.Port": 514,
"SysLog.1.Server1": "a.b.c.d",
"SysLog.1.Server2": "a.b.c.d",
"SysLog.1.Server3": "a.b.c.d",
"SysLog.1.SysLogEnable": "Enabled"
}}

Thanks very much for this pointer. Do you know where can I look for these attributes in the Dell documentations or is this something we need to discover?

Also would you know how to set alert quick configuration and enable alert via rest api.. I presume it would be through attributes again?

you can configure all attributes using below API's in iDRAC. You can do get on these to get all supported attributes

"/redfish/v1/Managers/iDRAC.Embedded.1/Oem/Dell/DellAttributes/iDRAC.Embedded.1"

"/redfish/v1/Managers/iDRAC.Embedded.1/Oem/Dell/DellAttributes/System.Embedded.1"

"/redfish/v1/Managers/iDRAC.Embedded.1/Oem/Dell/DellAttributes/LifecycleController.Embedded.1"

You can refer below link for documentation on these attributes

https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/idrac9-lifecycle-controller-v4.x-series/idrac_4.00.00.00_racadm_ar_referenceguide/idrac-property-database-group-and-object-descriptions?guid=guid-636ac3f6-bd86-40bc-bf52-45988f3b079d&lang=en-us 

Thank for the reply, I am pretty new to the redfish api. I have looked at whole documentation but I could not find any references to Quick Alert Configuration in any of the attributes. The closest I think is telemetry, my guess is telemetry = alert in IDRAC? But its attribute doesn't offer any "quick alert" settings. Below screenshot is what I am trying to achieve with rest api. 

My best guess is that I should do the following:

- Enable and set syslog attributes via iDRAC.Syslog

- Enable alert via iDRAC.Telemetry.EnableTelemetry

- Set rsyslog iDRAC.Telemetry.RSyslogServer1 (not sure why I still need to do this when syslog is defined above already)

- Set up all other telemetry sensors/metrics

- However, I still cannot find any attributes related to logging of security events in configuration tab of the alert configuration and other of those settings.

Any advise on this?

@DELL-Shine K 

how to mark the alarms as active trough racadm? I dont talk about to set the email address and enable it for recieving messages. I struggling to enable all available alarms.

Edit: I found

racadm help eventfilters get

when trying to fetch the current settings it bailed out with

Note: usbarbitrar is enabled.
These commands may not work as expected.
Please disable usbarbitrar by running "/etc/init.d/usbarbitrator stop"

If i disable usbarbitrator the command runs for a while and returns nothing. Thats in idrac 5.00.

Regards,
Joerg

I get 6 VxRAILs tomorrow and i can tell you within the next weeks
But its a good question.... our Dell SC(Compellents) also include a iDRAC and we havent touch them(just password change). In the past i have seen iDRACs where some features are disabled and not visible.

Btw. we install the iDRAC Tools on ESXi (Dell offer a VIB) trough VUM/LCM.

Regards,
Joerg

I have a question about RACADM, we are using VxRail and when I checked for downloads for RACADM, I cannot find VxRail as the compatible devices even though they are running IDRAC9. Anyone have RACADM working with IDRAC9 VxRail?

This is great info and has really helped me. I've noticed it's been over a year since this explanation. Have there been any updates to the API to include this functionality?