Users Guide

NOTE: Dell Technologies recommends you to update the “Dell OM : System configuration lockdown alert rule interval”
immediately after the server discovery interval is updated or modified. This ensures that the System Lockdown mode alert is
generated after the completion of server discovery with a certain interval.
You can view information about the System Configuration Lockdown mode in the Detail View pane of the Dell EMC Diagram
View. For more information about this feature, see the iDRAC9 Version 3.00.00.00 User’s Guide available on the support
site. This feature is available for servers that are discovered by using iDRAC and iSM methods of Dell EMC Server and Rack
Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) feature.
iDRAC Group Manager in iDRAC9 PowerEdge servers
The iDRAC Group Manager feature is available for iDRAC9—based PowerEdge servers to offer simplified basic management
of iDRAC, and associated servers on the same local network. Group Manager feature enables one-to-many console experience
without requiring a separate application. Using the iDRAC Group Manager, you can view information about a set of servers by
permitting more powerful management than by inspecting servers visually for faults and other manual methods.
You can view information about the iDRAC Group Manager, iDRAC Group Manager Status, and iDRAC Group Name under the
iDRAC object in the Detail View pane of the Diagram View. For more information about this feature, see the iDRAC9 Version
3.00.00.00 User's Guide available on the support site. This feature is available for servers that are discovered by using the
iDRAC and iSM methods of Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) feature.
Event auto resolution
This section describes the automatic resolution or acknowledgment of the Dell device events using the Event Auto Resolution
feature.
Dell EMC Windows Server Agent-based and iDRAC7 or iDRAC8 SNMP Management Pack for Microsoft System Center
Operations Manager receives and processes the events from the Dell devices. These events can be broadly classified as issue,
information, and resolution events. All these events remain on the console until they are manually closed. Even after the issue
gets resolved at the node, the issue event, and the corresponding resolution event remains in the console until they are manually
acknowledged. Event Auto Resolution feature automatically resolves or acknowledges such Dell device events.
The auto resolution of events can be classified as:
● Problem to problem—One problem event resolves another problem event. For example, a temperature sensor sends a
warning event when it crosses the warning threshold. If there is no action, after certain time, the same sensor sends critical
event when it crosses the critical event. In this case, there is no importance of the warning event, because it does not exist.
The warning event is acknowledged, and only critical event is displayed on the console.
● Problem to resolution—One resolution or a normal event resolves a problem event. For example, a temperature sensor sends
a warning event when it crosses the warning threshold. When the administrator takes appropriate action, the same sensor
sends the resolution event or normal event after certain time. In this case, there is no importance of the warning event,
because it does not exist. The warning event is acknowledged, and only normal event is displayed on the console.
This feature is available only for servers that are discovered through iDRAC WS-Man. By default, the Event Auto Resolution
disabled. Enable this feature by using the Enable Event Auto Resolution task. The tasks such as Enable Event Auto Resolution
and Disable Event Resolution, are available under Dell EMC > Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard > Dell EMC
Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) > Dell EMC Monitoring Feature Tasks.
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 47.
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.
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