Users Guide

In the filename, <yyyymmddhhmiss> pertains to the time when the log information was gathered;
yyyy is the calendar year, mm is month, dd is date, hh is hour of the day, mi is minutes, and ss is
seconds.
After completion of discovery:
• Dell device Host definition and its service definitions are created in the Nagios server and this is
subsequently used for monitoring the Dell devices.
The discovered Dell devices and their services are displayed in the Host view and the Services view in
the Nagios Core console. Wait for the scheduled service to complete for the service details to be
displayed.
• The discovered Dell devices are displayed in the Map view in the Nagios Core console.
Using the -t or the -c options
The -t option can be used while discovering the Dell devices if you have modified the
dell_device_services_template.cfg file, which is the template file for basic or detailed monitoring
of Dell devices, according to your requirement and the file is saved in a non-default location.
Format:
perl dell_device_discovery.pl -H <IP address list file> –t <Complete path of the
services template file>
The -c option can be used while discovering the Dell devices if you have modified the
dell_device_comm_params.cfg file, which is the protocol specific configuration file, according to
your requirement and the file is saved in a non-default location.
Format:
perl dell_device_discovery.pl -H <IP address list file> –c <Complete path of the
protocol specific config file>
Device information
About device information
The Dell device information service provides the basic information about the system. By default this
service is polled once a day.
Table 16. Device Information
Service Status Description Attributes Displayed
Dell Server Information The following states are
possible:
• OK
• Unknown
• Critical
• Warning
This service provides the
basic device inventory
information.
• Server Host FQDN
• Model Name
• Device Type (iDRAC7
or iDRAC8)
• Service Tag
• Product Type
(Monolithic or
Modular)
• Chassis Tag
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