Dell OpenManage Plug-in Version 1.
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Contents 1 Introduction........................................................................................................... 4 2 System requirements........................................................................................... 5 System requirements for management systems..................................................................................5 General requirements......................................................................................................................
Introduction 1 This guide provides information about the software requirements, system requirements, and the steps to install and uninstall the Dell OpenManage Plug-in Version 1.0 for Nagios XI. This plug-in provides capabilities to monitor the supported Dell devices in environments managed by Nagios XI. This plug-in gives you complete hardware-level visibility of Dell devices, including overall and component-level health monitoring.
2 System requirements To discover iDRAC devices by using the Dell OpenManage Plug-in, you can opt for either SNMP or WSMAN protocol based on your requirement. However, to discover Dell storage devices, you must use the SNMP protocol and to discover Dell chassis, you must use WS-MAN protocol. Table 1. Dell devices and their supported protocols.
– Health of the Dell Chassis I/O Module Status. For more information on downloading and installing the supported Dell Remote RACADM utility, go to “en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/3205.racadm-command-lineinterface-for-drac” For SNMP: The Net-SNMP Perl module version 6.0.1 or later is installed. For WS-MAN: OpenWSMAN and its Perl binding are installed. Operating system requirements • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 7.
Downloading and installing the Dell OpenManage Plug-in 1. 3 Download the Dell OpenManage Plug-in Version 1.0 for Nagios XI installer from the Dell support website at Dell.com/support or from Nagios exchange at exchange.nagios.org/. The installer is packaged as a .tar.gz file named Dell_OpenManage_Plugin_v1.0_Nagios_XI_A00.tar.gz. 2. Navigate to the location where you have downloaded the file, and extract its contents. The following files are extracted: • Dell_OM_NagiosXI_monitoring_wizard.
Post installation requirements 4 This section lists the optional steps that you need to perform based on your monitoring requirements. Once you have successfully installed the Dell OpenManage Plug-in, you must perform the steps listed in the sections below based on your monitoring requirement. • Configuring alerts or events if you want to monitor traps. • Configuring Dell Knowledge Base (KB) articles to be able to view more information about the alerts or events (traps) received.
Configuring Nagios XI installed (non default) path By default, Nagios is installed in the following path: /usr/local/nagios/ If you have installed Nagios XI in a non default path, then, perform the following steps to integrate this path: 1. Navigate to cd /html/includes/configwizards/ Dell_OM_NagiosXI_monitoring_wizard/script and run the following command: ./postinstall.sh nagiosinstallpath 2. Provide the path where the submit_check_result.
5 Uninstalling the Dell OpenManage Plugin 1. Login to Nagios XI console with your credentials. The Nagios XI home page is displayed. 2. Click the Admin tab. 3. In the left pane, under System Extensions, click Manage Config Wizards. The Manage Configuration Wizards page is displayed. 4. Locate the Dell Plug-in under Wizard Information and click the to uninstall the Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios XI wizard.
Accessing documents from Dell support site You can access the required documents in one of the following ways: • Using the following links: – For all Enterprise Systems Management documents — Dell.com/SoftwareSecurityManuals – For OpenManage documents — Dell.com/OpenManageManuals – For Remote Enterprise Systems Management documents — Dell.com/esmmanuals – For iDRAC and Lifecycle Controller documents — Dell.com/idracmanuals – For OpenManage Connections Enterprise Systems Management documents — Dell.
Related Documentation 7 In addition to this guide, you can access the following guides available on the Dell Support website at Dell.com/support/manuals.
