Dell iDRAC Telemetry Reference Guide

Telemetry Reference Tools

The Telemetry Reference Tool is an open source tool that is published at GitHub, that runs outside iDRAC and provide docker containers to facilitate few steps to ingest iDRAC telemetry into the timeseries databases like Elasticsearch and InfluxDB. It can also be integrated with visualization solutions like Kibana, Grafana, and Splunk Analytics.

The basic workflow of iDRAC Telemetry Reference Tools includes:

1. Telemetry data collection from one or more iDRACs.
2. Ingesting the data into big databases like Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Timescale, and Influx DB.
3. Visualizing the data using visualization tools like Kibana, Grafana, or Splunk Analytics.

The following are the requirements for using the Telemetry Reference Tools:

1. iDRAC with firmware 4.00.00.00 or later versions and with Datacenter license.
2. Windows or Linux system, like Ubuntu OS version 20.04.1 LTS or later, with at least 16 GB RAM and 250GB available disk space .
3. Docker and Docker-Compose tools 2.2.0 or higher.
4. Remote Desktop connection to the Linux system or equivalent if GUI interfaces are used.
5. Basic knowledge of Splunk and the Open-Source tools like ELK stack (Elastic Search and Kibana), InfluxDB, Prometheus, and Grafana.

For more information, see

GitHub - dell/iDRAC-Telemetry-Reference-Tools: Reference toolset for PowerEdge Telemetry metric collection and integration with analytics and visualization solutions.

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