Users Guide

Application log for Dell Command | Monitor for

Linux

Dell Command | Monitor for Linux segregates the application logs and alerts for reporting and debugging purpose. The history of the

generated alerts and logs for the Dell Command | Monitor application can be viewed in the dcm_application.log file available at /opt/

dell/dcm/var/log.

Configuration file

You can update the configuration file log.property available at /opt/dell/dcm/conf to apply the desired settings and DEBUG:

NOTE: Restart the OMI server after making any change in the configuration file to apply the changes.

• Log_Level — There are three log levels to segregate the system messages: ERROR, INFO, DEBUG

The user can change the log level from the configuration file. If the log level is set to DEBUG, the Dell Command | Monitor application

log will send all the information in to the specified log file.

NOTE: The default log level is set to INFO.

• File_Size — The user can specify the maximum size of the dcm_application.log file. The default file size is 500 MB.

NOTE: The File_Size value must be expressed in bytes.

• BackupIndex — The user can specify the rollover count of the dcm_application.log file. If the default rollover count is 2, the third

backup file will override the oldest file.

Detecting advance format drives

Client systems are transitioning to Advanced Format (AF) drives for larger storage capacity and to address the limitations of 512-byte

sector hard drives (HDDs). The hard drives transitioning to 4KB sectors maintain backward compatibility, while the current AF hard drive,

known as 512e hard drive, match 512-byte SATA and operate at 4KB. During the transition, you may encounter performance issues such

as partition mis-aligned drives in the client systems resulting in failure of sector-based encryption software packages that handle 512e

drives. Dell Command | Monitor allows you to determine if the hard drive on a system is 4KB AF drive, which helps to prevent these issues.

Boot configurations

NOTE:

Dell Command | Monitor for Linux does not offer the boot configuration capabilities. So this section is not

applicable for Dell Command | Monitor for Linux.

A client system can have one of two types of boot configuration:

• Legacy (BIOS)

• UEFI

In Dell Command | Monitor, the boot configuration (Legacy or UEFI) is modeled using the following classes:

• DCIM_ElementSettingData

• DCIM_BootConfigSetting

• DCIM_OrderedComponent

• DCIM_BootSourceSetting

• DCIM_SmartAttributeInfo

NOTE:

The terms Boot Configuration and Boot List Type are used interchangeably and convey the same meaning

representing Legacy or UEFI.

DCIM_AssetWarrantyInformation

• To query the warranty status on endpoint device, run the following command:

Get-CimInstance -Namespace root/DCIM/SYSMAN -ClassName DCIM_AssetWarrantyInformation

Using Dell Command | Monitor 10.2.1