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Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-in Version 3.1 For Nagios XI Installation Guide

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Introduction

The Dell EMC Open Manage Plug-in for Nagios XI guide provides information about software and system requirements, installation steps, upgrading and uninstalling the plug-in for Nagios XI.

Also provides capabilities to monitor the supported Dell EMC devices and gives you complete hardware-level visibility of Dell EMC devices including overall and component-level health monitoring. Enabling you to view the basic inventory information and conduct event monitoring of Dell EMC devices. Supports one-to-one web console launch of the Dell EMC devices for further troubleshooting, configuring devices, and managing activities.

The Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-in Version 3.1 for Nagios XI supports the following Dell EMC devices:
  • iDRAC9 based PowerEdge Servers.
  • 12th Generation and 13th Generation PowerEdge servers through the agent-free method by using Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller (LC)
  • OEM Servers
  • Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS)
  • Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Platforms - Dell EMC VxRail, Dell EMC VxFlex, and Dell EMC XC device
  • PowerEdge FX2/FX2s chassis, PowerEdge VRTX chassis, and PowerEdge M1000e and MX7000 chassis
  • EqualLogic PS-Series Storage Arrays, PowerVault MD 34/38, ME4 Storage Arrays, and Dell Compellent SC-Series Storage Arrays
  • Dell EMC Network Switches

For more details on the supported Dell EMC device models, see Support matrix Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-in Version 3.1 for Nagios XI Users Guide.

Table 1. Key featuresThe key features of this plug-in are as follows:
Feature Functionality
Device Discovery

Discovers Dell EMC device

Host, and service definitions are created for each device once the discovery is complete.

  • Discovering Dell EMC servers through iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller could be done either using SNMP, WSMan protocol or Redfish protocols.
  • Dell EMC storage and Dell EMC Network Switch discovery is supported using SNMP protocol.
  • Dell EMC chassis discovery is supported using WSMan protocol.
  • Dell EMC MX7000 modular chassis and ME4 Storage Arrays are discovered via REST
Security Enhancement

Enhanced security with AES 256-bit based password encryption in host definition files

Device Information

Displays information about the discovered device such as Service Tag, Firmware Version, Device Name, Device Model, and so on, after a device discovery is successful

You can view this information in the Hosts or the Services view in the Nagios XI console.

For more information about device services and their description, see Device Information in the Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-in Version 3.1 for Nagios XI Users Guide.
Monitor overall health of Dell EMC devices.

Monitors the overall health of Dell EMC devices

Component level health of Dell EMC devices

Monitors health of the Dell EMC device components such as Physical Disks, Power Supply, Temperature Probe and Voltage Probe and displays the information about the respective components.

For more information about Component level health of Dell EMC devices and their description, see Monitor Component Health of Dell EMC Devices in the Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-in Version 3.1 for Nagios XI Users Guide.
Monitor SNMP alerts.

Monitors SNMP alerts for Dell EMC devices This feature displays only the last received SNMP alert.

To view all received SNMP alerts, browse Reports > Alerts > History in the Nagios XI console.

You can also view the Alert Knowledge Base (KB) information for the supported Dell EMC devices corresponding to an SNMP alert for faster troubleshooting of the respective alert.

For more information, see Knowledge Base (KB) messages for the generated alerts in the Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-in Version 3.1 for Nagios XI Users Guide.
Launching Dell EMC device-specific consoles.

Launches the respective Dell EMC one-to-one consoles to further troubleshoot and manage the supported Dell EMC devices.

Warranty information Monitors and displays the warranty information for the supported Dell EMC devices. For more information, see Warranty information for Dell EMC devices in the Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-in Version 3.1 for Nagios XI Users Guide.

This plug-in supports Nagios XI versions 5.4.11 and 5.4.13.

Before installing Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-in Version 3.1 for Nagios XI, download the latest documents from Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios XI for the latest information about this product.

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