Users Guide

Discover and enable DRAC devices
About this task
The DRAC devices must be discovered as network devices under the Administration section of the SCOM console. To
discover DRAC devices in the SCOM console, do the following:
Steps
1. Log in to the management server as a SCOM administrator.
2. In the left pane, select Administration.
3. In the left pane, click Discovery Wizard.
4. Select Network devices, and then complete the tasks that are prompted by the Computer and Device Management
Wizard.
For more information, see the Microsoft SCOM documentation.
5. On the Add a Device Console screen, enter the IP address that you want to discover.
6. Select the necessary Run As Account from the SNMP V1 or SNMP V2 Run As Account drop-down menu.
7. Enable the DRAC monitoring feature by using the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard.
Results
Scalability recommendation for SCOM
When managing large number of network devices in a distributed setup, use dedicated resource pools of Management Servers
for each device type. For more information about the number of devices that are supported in a Management Group, see the
Sizing Guide sections in the Microsoft SCOM documentation.
Monitoring DRACs
After you install Dell EMC Windows Server Agent-based and iDRAC7 or iDRAC8 SNMP Management Pack, you can use the
Monitoring pane of SCOM 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 levels of discovered devices on page
38 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).
View options for DRAC monitoring feature
Dell EMC Windows Server Agent-based and iDRAC7 or iDRAC8 SNMP Management Pack provides the following types of views
for monitoring DRACs by selecting Monitoring > Dell EMC on the SCOM console:
● Alert view in the DRAC monitoring feature on page 19
● Diagram views in the DRAC monitoring feature on page 20
● State views in the DRAC monitoring feature on page 20
Alert view in the DRAC monitoring feature
The Alert View is available for managing hardware and storage events from Dell EMC DRAC devices. SNMP traps and Platform
Event Traps (PET) sent by DRAC devices are displayed by the DRAC monitoring feature.
To view DRAC alerts on the SCOM console:
1. In the left pane of the SCOM console, select Monitoring.
2. Expand Dell EMC > Dell EMC Alerts Views. The following alerts are displayed:
● PET Traps—These alerts contain information about PET traps from iDRAC6, iDRAC7, and iDRAC8 devices.
Discover and monitor DRACs on the SCOM console
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