Users Guide

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 on page 14.
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.
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.
DSMPS Unit Monitors
A unit monitor monitors the performance counter over two successive cycles to check if it exceeds a threshold value. When the
threshold value is exceeded, the Dell EMC PowerEdge Server changes state and generates an alert. This unit monitor is disabled
by default. You can override (enable) the threshold values in the Authoring pane of the SCOM console. Unit monitors are
available under Dell Windows Server objects for the Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring feature. To enable the
threshold values of unit monitors, see Enable performance and power monitoring unit monitors on page 14. Dell Unit monitors
assess the various conditions that can occur in monitored objects. The result of this assessment determines the health state of
a target.
The Dell unit monitors are:
● Event Monitor—Triggered by the event that the Dell instrumentation logs in the Windows event log indicating the health of
the corresponding object.
● Periodic Monitor—Triggered by a periodic poll that is configured as Interval Seconds.
Scalable Edition Unit monitors in the monitoring feature of DSMPS
for PowerEdge servers and workstations using OMSA
All the following unit monitors provided by the monitoring feature of DSMPS using OMSA are of Periodic type:
Memory
● Dell EMC Server Memory Status
● Dell EMC Server Memory Redundancy Status
OpenManage Software Services
● Dell EMC Server Management (DSM) Connection Service Availability Status
● DSM Data Manager Availability Status
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