Administrator Guide

Introduction
6 Prefailure alerts provided by Dell EMC PowerEdge server systems management | ID 426
• Health status
• Warning and Failure alerts
• Redundancy Warning and Failure alerts
• Predictive Failure alerts
Actions in response to these alerts include:
• SNMP traps
• Email alerts
• Redfish eventing
• IPMI events
• All events are logged and can be exported manually or remotely using Remote Syslog.
o From the iDRAC GUI, IT administrators can export the full Lifecycle Controller log and review.
o iDRAC Enterprise and Datacenter can connect to a Remote Syslog server for consolidation
and additional auditing measures.
o iDRAC9 Datacenter provides an option for telemetry streaming for deeper data analysis. This
service sends data to ingress collectors such as Splunk or ELK stack for review.
• Integration into consoles such as Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and
VMware vCenter to allow for seamless virtual machine migration.
Actions are user-definable, and a detailed log tracks all alerts that are received. Information from the log
includes
• The date and time the alert was received.
• The type and severity associated with the alert.
• The identification of the component that generated the alert.
• Any text that was generated.
• Any actions taken.
As Dell continues to improve its agent-free monitoring and alerting capabilities, a broader range of alerts have
become available, reducing the need for software agents. This out-of-band management has the principal
benefit of providing critical information, regardless of what operating system or hypervisor, if any, is installed
or operational.
The table below provides a high-level overview of the alerts iDRAC provides.
Device Health status
Warning and Failure
alerts
Redundancy Warning
and Failure alerts
Predictive Failure
Alerts
Drives
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CPU
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N/A
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Memory
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Temperature
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N/A N/A
Fans
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N/A N/A
Power supplies
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N/A