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6 Telemetry Streaming with iDRAC9 – Metric Reports Using Rsyslog | Document ID: 362

2 Streaming reports over Rsyslog

iDRAC can stream telemetry reports to Rsyslog servers that require an SSL certificate, and ones that do not

require an SSL certificate. The streaming is either event or schedule based. On-demand streaming over

Rsyslog is not supported.

2.1 iDRAC Configurations

There are few configuration changes that must be applied at iDRAC side to enable the telemetry streaming

over Rsyslog.

2.1.1 Enable and set configurations

There are a few different ways to set the following parameters. One is the Dell EMC Command Line Interface

(CLI) known as RACADM. Another tool is the RESTful API Redfish. A powerful and flexible tool is the Server

Configuration Profile (SCP) which can be used to set any and every configuration option for a server. An SCP

can include (but not limited to) BIOS, iDRAC, NIC, PERC, alerts, users, and all the Telemetry Streaming

settings.

Ensure that below steps are completed using RACADM/Redfish/SCP.

1. Enable ‘Telemetry Data Stream’

2. Set Rsyslog Server IPs and port

Sample RACADM commands to Enable and set Rsyslog configurations.

racadm>>set idrac.telemetry.EnableTelemetry Enabled

[Key=idrac.Embedded.1#Telemetry.1]

Object value modified successfully

Setting rsyslog Server1 IP

set idrac.telemetry.RSyslogServer1 10.100.100.11

[Key=idrac.Embedded.1#Telemetry.1]

Object value modified successfully

Setting rsyslog Server1 Port

racadm>>set idrac.telemetry.RSyslogServer1Port 514

[Key=idrac.Embedded.1#Telemetry.1]

Object value modified successfully

Sample SCP snippet

<Attribute Name="Telemetry.1#EnableTelemetry">Enabled</Attribute>

</Component>