Key features of licensed monitoring of PowerEdge servers in OMIMSSC
System configuration lockdown mode in iDRAC9 PowerEdge servers
The System Configuration Lockdown mode feature is available for iDRAC9—based PowerEdge servers that lock the system’s configuration, including firmware updates. After the System Configuration Lockdown Mode is enabled:
You cannot change the system’s configuration. This feature is intended to protect the system from unintentional changes. Using the iDRAC console, you can enable or disable the System Configuration Lockdown mode.
You cannot configure the trap destination information in the servers. Therefore, alerts are not generated for monitoring. In such a case, you are notified with a critical alert indicating that System Configuration Lockdown mode is enabled, and trap destination information for alerts is not configured.
NOTE Dell Technologies recommends you to update the “Dell OM : System configuration lockdown alert rule interval” immediately after the server discovery interval is updated or modified. This ensures that the System Lockdown mode alert is generated after the completion of server discovery with a certain interval.
You can view information about the System Configuration Lockdown mode in the Detail View pane of the Dell EMC Diagram View. For more information about this feature, see the
iDRAC9 Version 3.00.00.00 User’s Guide available on the support site. This feature is available for servers that are discovered by using iDRAC and iSM methods of Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) feature.
iDRAC Group Manager in iDRAC9 PowerEdge servers
The iDRAC Group Manager feature is available for iDRAC9—based PowerEdge servers to offer simplified basic management of iDRAC, and associated servers on the same local network. Group Manager feature enables one-to-many console experience without requiring a separate application. Using the iDRAC Group Manager, you can view information about a set of servers by permitting more powerful management than by inspecting servers visually for faults and other manual methods.
You can view information about the iDRAC Group Manager, iDRAC Group Manager Status, and iDRAC Group Name under the iDRAC object in the Detail View pane of the Diagram View. For more information about this feature, see the
iDRAC9 Version 3.00.00.00 User's Guide available on the support site. This feature is available for servers that are discovered by using the iDRAC and iSM methods of Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) feature.
Event auto resolution
This section describes the automatic resolution or acknowledgment of the Dell device events using the Event Auto Resolution feature.
Dell EMC Server Management Pack Suite receives and processes the events from the Dell devices. These events can be broadly classified as issue, information, and resolution events. All these events remain on the console until they are manually closed. Even after the issue gets resolved at the node, the issue event, and the corresponding resolution event remains in the console until they are manually acknowledged. Event Auto Resolution feature automatically resolves or acknowledges such Dell device events.
The auto resolution of events can be classified as:
Problem to problem—One problem event resolves another problem event. For example, a temperature sensor sends a warning event when it crosses the warning threshold. If there is no action, after certain time, the same sensor sends critical event when it crosses the critical event. In this case, there is no importance of the warning event, because it does not exist. The warning event is acknowledged, and only critical event is displayed on the console.
Problem to resolution—One resolution or a normal event resolves a problem event. For example, a temperature sensor sends a warning event when it crosses the warning threshold. When the administrator takes appropriate action, the same sensor sends the resolution event or normal event after certain time. In this case, there is no importance of the warning event, because it does not exist. The warning event is acknowledged, and only normal event is displayed on the console.
This feature is available only for servers that are discovered through iDRAC WS-Man. By default, the Event Auto Resolution disabled. Enable this feature by using the Enable Event Auto Resolution task. The tasks such as Enable Event Auto Resolution and Disable Event Resolution, are available under
Dell EMC > Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard > Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) > Dell EMC Monitoring Feature Tasks.
Capacity planning of PowerEdge servers discovered through iDRAC and iSM
You can monitor if the server’s utilization has exceeded the configured capacity threshold value using the Dell Server Capacity Check unit monitor. The unit monitor—Dell Server Capacity Check monitors the average system or CUPS usage for the last one day of each server against the configured capacity threshold value. By default, this unit monitor is disabled. To enable the Dell Server Capacity Check unit monitor, see
Enable performance and power monitoring unit monitors.
The minimum threshold value is 1, and the maximum threshold value is 99. The default threshold value is 60. You can configure the threshold values within the specified range. That is, 1–99. In case, you provide a threshold value other than the specified ranges, that threshold is reset to its default value.
A warning event per server is generated when the average system or CUPS usage for the last one day exceeds the configured threshold value. The warning event is auto resolved when the average system or CUPS usage for the last one day returns within the configured threshold value.
You can view the details of the warning alert in the Alert Details pane under Monitoring.
Detect and restore the status of a failed CMC or OpenManage Enterprise-Modular
Using the “iDRAC detection of a failed Dell EMC Chassis Management Controller/OpenManage Enterprise Modular (CMC/OME- M)” feature, iDRAC of a Rack Style Management (RSM) enabled modular server detects a failed or an unavailable CMC. By using this feature, you can take immediate remedial action to bring the failed Dell EMC CMC/OME-M to a normal state.
The Dell Chassis Controller Sensor indicates the presence or failure of a Dell EMC CMC/OME-M. You can view the health state that is obtained from the unit monitor by clicking
Dell EMC Diagram Views > Dell Chassis Controller Sensor under Sensors.
NOTE
The Dell Chassis Controller Sensor is available in both the Scalable and Detailed Management Pack editions.
iDRAC detection of failed Dell EMC CMC/OME-M is supported for YX3X and iDRAC9-based PowerEdge FX2 Chassis.
Port connection information of PowerEdge servers discovered through iDRAC and iSM
NOTE This feature is supported for iDRAC9-based PowerEdge servers only.
Server port connection information feature provides information about the physical mapping of switch ports to server ports, and iDRAC dedicated port connections. This feature enables you to reduce cabling error debugging by identifying switch ports that are connected to a server’s network ports, and iDRAC dedicated port. You can view the information about the Server port connection under iDRAC NIC and NIC objects in the Detail View pane of the Dell EMC Diagram View. Along with the inventory information of each NIC, chassis ID information of the switch and the port ID information is populated. This feature is available for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers that are discovered through both the iDRAC and iSM methods of Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) feature.
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