Owner's Manual

Monitoring The Health Of Dell Devices

You can monitor the health of Dell devices using the scheduled policies. Scheduled policies are that which updates the

global system status of the Dell systems at 02:00 A.M. every day. These policies polls each Dell device grouped under

the Dell Hardware group under Service hierarchy to get the global system status and sends corresponding severity

messages to the active message browser of the HPOM console.

Dell SPI provides the following scheduled policies:

• Dell Server Scheduled Status Poll

• Dell DRAC and Chassis Scheduled Status Poll

• Dell EqualLogic Arrays Scheduled Status Poll

• Dell MD Storage Arrays Scheduled Status Poll

The global system status is the overall health of the system. However, the health of the individual components of the

system may differ. To view the health of the individual components of the Dell systems, launch the respective tools

associated with the Dell devices.

NOTE: The global health status of the Dell systems is not displayed on the HPOM console until the Dell Hardware

Autogroup Policy runs for the first time, and the Dell systems are grouped under the Dell Managed Systems, and

the Dell Hardware group.

Dell Server Scheduled Status Poll

You can monitor the health of Dell servers and iDRAC7 using the Dell Server Scheduled Status Poll.

To view the health of the individual components for:

• Windows or Linux systems, launch the Server Administrator tool. For more information, see Launching

OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) Console.

• ESXi systems, launch the Server Administrator Web Server Console tool to access Server Administrator. For

more information, see Launching OpenManage Server Administrator Web Server Console.

• OOB servers, and IDRAC7 devices, launch the DRAC Console tool. For more information, see Launching Dell

Remote Access Controller (DRAC) Console

The policy also updates the health status of the systems under the Dell Servers Global System Status and Dell DRAC

Global System Status under the Services and the Nodes tree.

Dell DRAC And Chassis Scheduled Status Poll

You can monitor the health of Dell DRAC, and Dell Chassis devices using the Dell DRAC and Chassis Scheduled Status

Poll.

To view the health of the individual components for:

• Dell DRAC devices, launch the DRAC Console and OpenManage Server Administrator Console Launch tool. For

more information, see Launching Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC) Console From DRAC and Launching

OpenManage Server Administrator Console From DRAC.

• Dell Chassis devices, launch the CMC Console and DRAC/MC Console tool. For more information, see Launching

Chassis Management Controller (CMC) Console and Launching DRAC/MC Console.

The policy also updates the health status of the systems under the Dell DRAC Global System Status, and Dell Chassis

Global System Status under the Services, and the Nodes tree.