Users Guide

Monitoring DRAC devices in Operations Manager
After you install the Dell EMC Server Management Pack Suite, you can use the Monitoring pane of the Operations Manager
to select views that provide complete health information of the discovered Dell DRAC devices. The DRAC monitoring feature
discovers and monitors the health of the Dell DRAC devices. It includes monitoring health of the Dell DRAC devices, both at
regular intervals and on occurrence of events. The Severity Level Indicators indicates the health of the Dell DRAC devices on
the network.
NOTE: To monitor the health of DRAC devices, associate the community string Run As account with the SNMP Monitoring
Account with the target as the Dell Remote Access Controller class or respective DRAC object (if you have different Run As
accounts for different DRAC devices).
Dell EMC Server Management Pack 7.1.1-View options for DRAC Monitoring
feature on the Operations Manager console
Dell EMC Server Management Pack Suite provides the following types of views for monitoring by clicking Monitoring > Dell
EMC on the Operations Manager console:
● Dell EMC Alert Views
● Dell EMC Diagram Views
● Dell EMC State Views
Dell EMC Alerts Views
This view is available for managing hardware and storage events from Dell DRAC devices. SNMP traps and Platform Event
Traps (PET) sent by DRAC devices are displayed by the DRAC monitoring feature.
Viewing Alerts for DRAC Monitoring feature on the Operations Manager
Console
To view DRAC alerts on the Operations Manager console:
1. Launch the Operations Manager console and click Monitoring.
2. Click Dell EMC > Dell EMC Alerts Views.
The following Alerts Views are displayed.
● PET Traps — These alerts contain information on PET traps from iDRAC6, iDRAC7, and iDRAC8 devices.
● Remote Access Alerts — These alerts contains information on SNMP traps from iDRAC6, iDRAC7 and iDRAC8 devices.
3. Select an alert to view the details in the Alert Details pane.
On the right pane of each of the individual Alerts Views, alerts that meet the criteria you specify, such as alert severity,
resolution state, or alerts that are assigned to you is displayed.
Diagram Views of Remote access controllers for DRAC monitoring feature
on the Operations Manager console
The Dell EMC Diagram Views offers a hierarchical and graphical representation of all Dell DRAC devices on the network.
Viewing Dell EMC Diagrams Views for DRAC feature on the Operations Manager console
To view the diagrams for DRAC monitoring feature on the Operations Manager console:
1. Launch the Operations Manager console and click Monitoring > Dell EMC > Dell EMC Diagram Views.
2. In the Monitoring pane on the left side, go to the Dell EMC Diagram Views folder for the following views:
● Dell EMC Complete Diagram View
● Remote Access Controllers Group
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Dell EMC Server Management pack suite version 7.1.1 supported Monitoring features