Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Command | Monitor Version 10.4 User's Guide
- Introduction to Dell Command | Monitor 10.4
- Windows SMM Security Mitigations Table (WSMT) Compliance
- Standards and protocols for Dell Command | Monitor 10.4
- Use case scenarios using Dell Command | Monitor 10.4
- Using Dell Command | Monitor 10.4
- Polling interval setting
- RAID status reporting
- Monitoring the Dell client systems
- Application log for Dell Command | Monitor for Linux
- Detecting advance format drives
- Boot configurations
- Changing the system settings
- Managing Dell client systems locally using Dell Command | Monitor 10.4
- Managing Dell client systems remotely using Dell Command | Monitor 10.4
- Frequently asked questions for Dell Command | Monitor 10.4
- Troubleshooting steps using Dell Command | Monitor 10.4
- Unable to remotely connect to Windows Management Instrumentation
- Installation failure on systems running Windows
- BIOS setting enumeration value appears as 1
- Hapi installation fails due to the dependency of libsmbios
- CIM resources not available
- Unable to execute the commands using DCM on the systems running Ubuntu Core 16
- Other documents you may need
- Contacting Dell
Using Dell Command | Monitor 10.4
You can view the information that is 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 about the classes, see Dell Command | Monitor Reference Guide at dell.com/
dellclientcommandsuitemanuals.
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 configurations
• 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 file is present at <Dell Command | Monitor installed
location>\omsa\ini.
● For Linux, AlertPollingSettings.ini file is present at /opt/dell/dcm/conf.
NOTE:
The numbers in the INI file 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 configuration 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
configuration, and controller status. After the RAID configuration 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) file is shared
between Dell Command | Monitor and Server Administrator. Dell Command | Monitorfor Windows from version 9.0 has been
modified to use an OID that is specific to client OID (10909) for consoles to identify client systems.
For more information about SNMP, see Dell Command | Monitor SNMP Reference Guide at dell.com/
dellclientcommandsuitemanuals.
For more information about SNMP, see Dell Command | Monitor SNMP Reference Guide.
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