Users Guide

Using Dell Command | Monitor 10.1.0

You can view the information provided by Dell Command | Monitor by accessing:

• root\dcim\sysman (standard)

Dell Command | Monitor provides the information through classes in these namespaces.

For more information on the classes, see Dell Command | Monitor Reference Guide at dell.com/dellclientcommandsuitemanuals.

For more information on the classes, see Dell Command | Monitor Reference Guide.

Topics:

• Polling interval setting

• RAID status reporting

• Monitoring the Dell client systems

• Application log for Dell Command | Monitor for Linux

• Detecting advance format drives

• Boot congurations

• Changing the system settings

Polling interval setting

You can change the polling interval of fan probe, temperature probe, voltage probe, current probe, disk capacity increase/decrease, memory

size increase/decrease and number of processors increase/decrease using Dell Command | Monitor.

• For Windows, dcsbdy32.ini or dcsbdy64.ini le is present at <Dell Command | Monitor installed location>\omsa\ini.

• For Linux, AlertPollingSettings.ini le is present at /opt/dell/dcm/conf.

NOTE

: The numbers in the INI le are multiples of 23. The default polling interval for disk capacity and Self-Monitoring, Analysis

and Reporting Technology (SMART) alert is 626 seconds (the real time = 626 X 23 seconds which is approximately 3 hours).

RAID status reporting

Dell Command | Monitor enables the RAID conguration information and monitors the RAID functionality for client systems with hardware

and driver support. You can use RAID classes to receive the details about RAID levels, driver information, controller conguration, and

controller status. After the RAID conguration is enabled, you can receive alerts for degradation or failure of drives and controllers.

NOTE

: RAID status reporting is supported only for the RAID controllers which work on Common Storage Management Interface

(CSMI) version 0.81 compliant drivers. OMCI 8.1 and later versions support monitoring only on the Intel on-chip RAID controller;

and from OMCI 8.2 and later versions support Alerting for Intel on-chip RAID controller.

Monitoring the Dell client systems

• Dell Command | Monitor for Windows supports Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for monitoring and managing client

systems such as notebooks, desktops, and workstations. The Management Information Base (MIB) le is shared between Dell

Command | Monitor and Server Administrator. Dell Command | Monitorfor Windows from version 9.0 has been modied to use an OID

that is specic to client OID (10909) for consoles to identify client systems.

For more information on SNMP, see Dell Command | Monitor SNMP Reference Guide at dell.com/dellclientcommandsuitemanuals.

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