Users Guide

Disabled S.M.A.R.T monitoring is disabled.

NA Chipset SATA controller is not available.

NOTE: By default, the attribute is set to Enabled or NA when the configuration does not support chipset SATA.

S.M.A.R.T monitoring is a feature that is installed through the iSM installer. User can install/modify the iSM installer package to disable the

S.M.A.R.T monitoring feature. This feature is available on a Dell EMC supported SATA disk with S.M.A.R.T capabilities.

If the disk is S.M.A.R.T capable and the feature is enabled, iSM will monitor the disks and generate events accordingly. The default

monitoring frequency is 24 hrs and cannot be manually configured. Only PDR16 (Predictive failure) and PDR22 (Temperature threshold

exceeded) events are monitored.

NOTE: If there is an OS error due to S.M.A.R.T error of the drive, then the event is not detected by the operating

system.

NOTE: If hard drives are part of a storage pool, then iSM will not be monitoring such drives for S.M.A.R.T failures.

NOTE: This feature also requires iDRAC9 firmware 4.00.00.00 or greater to be installed.

Operating system information

OpenManage Server Administrator currently shares operating system information and host name with iDRAC. The iDRAC Service Module

provides similar information such as host OS name, server host IP address information, OS version, Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)

with iDRAC. The network interfaces on the host OS are also displayed. By default, this monitoring feature is enabled. This feature is

available even if OpenManage Server Administrator is installed on the host OS.

You can also view Host OS network interface details, or such information through Redfish client plug-in for browsers.

NOTE: The minimum iDRAC firmware version required to view information using Redfish client is 3.00.00.00.

NOTE: If the network configuration on the Host OS is configured using netplan, then iSM will be unable to monitor the

network interfaces' change in states, DHCP configuration of an interface for instance. Hence you may not be able to

view the change of the Host OS network interface details in the iDRAC interfaces.

Lifecycle Controller log replication into operating

system

Replicates the Lifecycle Controller (LC) logs to the OS logs. All events that have the OS Log option as the target (in the Alerts page or in

the equivalent RACADM or WSMan interfaces) are replicated in the OS log. This process is similar to the System Event Log (SEL)

replication performed by OpenManage Server Administrator.

The default set of logs to be included in the OS logs are the same as the logs configured for SNMP traps/alerts. Only the events logged in

the LC log after the iDRAC Service Module was installed are replicated to the OS Log. If OpenManage Server Administrator is installed,

this monitoring feature is disabled to avoid duplicate SEL entries in the OS log.

In iDRAC Service Module, you can customize the location to replicate the LC logs. By default, the LC logs are replicated in the System

group of the Windows logs folder in the Windows Event Viewer. You can replicate the LC logs to an existing group or create a new

folder in the Application and Services Logs folder in the Windows Event Viewer. When iSM is already installed and if the Host OS

undergoes a reboot or iSM is restarted, and iDRAC has some LC logs generated during this duration of host time down, then iSM logs

these LC logs as past events in the OS log as soon as the service starts.

NOTE:

You can choose the location to replicate the LC logs only during iDRAC Service Module custom installation or

iDRAC Service Module modification.

NOTE: The source name of the iDRAC Service Module LCL logs has been changed from iDRAC Service Module to

Lifecycle Controller Log.

Automatic System Recovery

Automatic System Recovery feature is a hardware-based timer, which is used to reset the server in the event of a hardware failure. You

can perform automatic system recovery operations such as reboot, power cycle, or power off after a specified time interval. This feature

iDRAC Service Module monitoring features