Users Guide

Scalability Recommendation For OpsMgr 2012

When managing large number of network devices in a distributed setup, use dedicated resource pools of Management Servers for each

device type, if the same Management Group is also used to manage agent-based devices.

Discoveries by the DRAC Monitoring Feature

Table 14. DRAC Monitoring Feature Discoveries

Discovery Object Description

iDRAC Discovery Discovers all supported Integrated Dell Remote Access Controllers.

Dell Integrated Remote Access Modular Discovery Discovers the Chassis Name and Chassis Service Tag of Dell

Integrated Remote Access Controllers for Modular systems.

iDRAC6 Modular Discovery

Discovers the iDRAC6 (Modular) group.

iDRAC6 Monolithic Discovery

Discovers the iDRAC6 (Monolithic) group.

iDRAC7 Modular Discovery

Discovers the iDRAC7 (Modular) group.

iDRAC7 Monolithic Discovery

Discovers the iDRAC7 (Monolithic) group.

iDRAC8 Modular Discovery

Discovers the iDRAC8 (Modular) group.

iDRAC8 Monolithic Discovery

Discovers the iDRAC8 (Monolithic) group.

Dell Remote Access Group Discovery Discovers the Dell Remote Access group and populates iDRAC.

Dell Integrated Remote Access Monolithic Group Discovery Discovers the Dell Integrated Remote Access Monolithic group and

iDRAC (Monolithic).

Dell Integrated Remote Access Modular Group Discovery Discovers and populates the iDRAC (Modular) group.

Monitoring

After you install the Dell Server Management Pack Suite, you can use the Monitoring pane of the OpsMgr 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 Dell DRAC devices, both at regular intervals and on occurrence of events. The Severity

Level Indicators 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 Dell Remote Access Controller class or respective DRAC object (if you have

different Run As accounts for different DRAC devices).

Alerts Views

This view is available for managing hardware and storage events from Dell DRAC devices. SNMP traps sent by DRAC devices are

displayed by the DRAC monitoring feature.

Viewing Alerts on the OpsMgr Console

To view DRAC alerts on the OpsMgr console:

1. Launch the OpsMgr console and click Monitoring.

2. Click Dell > Alerts Views > Remote Access Alerts.

The Remote Access Alerts are displayed. These alerts contains information on SNMP traps from iDRAC6, iDRAC7 and iDRAC8

devices.

DRAC Monitoring Feature