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Dell EMC iDRAC Service Module 3.6 User’s Guide

iDRAC Service Module CLI tool—dcismcfg

dcismcfg utility is used to enable or disable the Historic S.M.A.R.T log collection feature. This utility is supported on all operating systems. Once the utility is used to enable or disable the Historic S.M.A.R.T log collection feature, the next polling cycle of S.M.A.R.T Monitoring fulfills the request.

Run the following commands to enable or disable the Historic S.M.A.R.T log collection:

For Windows run either one of the following commands:
  • <iSM install path>/shared/bin/dcismcfg.exe --collectperiodicsmartlog true/false
  • <iSM install path>/shared/bin/dcismcfg.exe -c true/false
For Linux run either one of the following commands:
  • <iSM install path>/bin/dcismcfg --collectperiodicsmartlog true/false
  • <iSM install path>/bin/dcismcfg -c true/false

dcismcfg utility must run as an administrator or root user and is supported for iDRAC firmware version 4.40.00.00 and later.

NOTE Historic S.M.A.R.T log collection is a subfeature of S.M.A.R.T Monitoring feature. However, while enabling Historic S.M.A.R.T log collection, if S.M.A.R.T Monitoring feature is not enabled, you are prompted to enable S.M.A.R.T Monitoring in order to enable Historic log collection.

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