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4 Monitoring iDRAC7 Devices Using Dell SupportAssist | Version 1.0 | December 2013
Table of contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
1
Discovery and inventory .............................................................................................................................................................. 6
1.1
Prerequisites ........................................................................................................................................................................ 6
1.2
Discovery range configuration ........................................................................................................................................ 6
2
Discovering iDRAC7 devices ....................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.1.1
ICMP configuration ............................................................................................................................................................ 8
2.1.2
SNMP Configuration .......................................................................................................................................................... 9
3
Setting up iDRAC7 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 11
4
Configuring SupportAssist .......................................................................................................................................................... 12
4.1
Default credentials ............................................................................................................................................................ 12
4.2
Custom credentials ........................................................................................................................................................... 13
5
Alerts in OpenManage Essentials .............................................................................................................................................. 15
5.1
Alert threshold .................................................................................................................................................................... 15
6
Automatic case creation and execution of the collection tool ......................................................................................... 17
7
Scheduling periodic collection................................................................................................................................................. 18
8
Sending system logs manually (collection on demand) ......................................................................................................19
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................................................................19