Users Guide

iDRAC Service Module monitoring features

The services provided are:

• OS information

• Lifecycle Controller Log replication into operating system

• Automatic system recovery

• Windows Management Instrumentation providers inclusive of storage data

• Prepare to remove NVMe SSD device

• Remote iDRAC hard reset

• iDRAC access via Host OS

• In-band support for iDRAC SNMP alerts

• Enable WSMan remotely

• Auto-updation of iDRAC Service Module

• FullPowerCycle

• Support Assist on the Box

NOTE: FullPowerCycle and Support Assist on the Box are supported only on the yx4x and yx5x Servers.

Topics:

• S.M.A.R.T Monitoring

• Operating system information

• Lifecycle Controller log replication into operating system

• Automatic System Recovery

• Windows Management Instrumentation Providers

• Prepare to remove NVMe PCIe SSD device

• Remote iDRAC hard reset

• iDRAC access via Host OS

• Accessing iDRAC Via GUI, WSMan, Redfish, Remote RACADM

• In-band support for iDRAC SNMP alerts

• Enable WSMan Remotely

• Auto-updating iDRAC Service Module

• FullPowerCycle

• SupportAssist on the Box

• Enabling the In-band SNMP Get feature—Linux

• Enabling the In-band SNMP Get feature—Windows

• iDRAC GUI Launcher

• Single sign-on (SSO) to iDRAC GUI from Host OS administrators desktop

• IPv6 communication between iSM and iDRAC over OS-BMC Passthru

• Enhanced security between iSM and iDRAC communication using TLS protocol

S.M.A.R.T Monitoring

Starting iSM 3.5, S.M.A.R.T monitoring feature supports hard disk drives enabled with SATA in AHCI mode. It has built-in capability to

monitor S.M.A.R.T alerts through iDRAC supported auditing methods for hard drives under SATA Chipset controller. Previously the alerts

were monitored by any open-source utility to monitor the hard drives set in RAID Mode.

This feature is controlled by an attribute registry iDRAC.Embedded.1#ServiceModule.1#ChipsetSATA with the following values:

Attribute Values

Description

Enabled The chipset SATA controllers are monitored for S.M.A.R.T events

in real time.

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