Administrator Guide

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5 Telemetry Streaming with iDRAC9 – Metric Reports Using Rsyslog | Document ID: 362
1 Telemetry Overview
Telemetry enables users to collect metric and data logs from various devices on PowerEdge server. Also, it
provides streaming the data to the subscribed external client or server application. Using telemetry, it is
possible to set types of reports and the frequency of reports that must be generated.
1.1 Prerequisites
 The Telemetry feature is available on iDRAC9 firmware version 4.00.00.00 or above and requires a
Datacenter license.
 Rsyslog server for receiving reports available.