Dell EMC Chassis Monitoring feature
- SNMP and/or WS-Man protocol
- RedFish
Dell EMC Chassis monitoring feature also supports Detailed monitoring of individual chassis components in the supported Microsoft System Center—Operations Manager.
Management Packs
Feature | Default location of Management Packs | Management Packs |
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Dell EMC Chassis Monitoring |
Library %PROGRAMFILES%\Dell Management Packs\Server Mgmt Suite\7.2\Library Monitored Management Packs %PROGRAMFILES%\Dell Management Packs\Server Mgmt Suite\7.2\Chassis Monitoring |
Library
Monitored Management Packs
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Configuration prerequisites
- Ensure that SNMP ports on firewall are enabled.
- Ensure that Dell Device Helper is installed.
- Ensure that there is WS-Man connectivity between the Management Server and the Managed Node.
Dell EMC Chassis Monitoring requirements
- For slot discovery and correlation to work, ensure that you have Dell Device Helper utility installed.
- To monitor Chassis controller, IO Module, IO Module Group, Power Supply, and Power Supply Group components.
- To monitor the health of Chassis devices, associate the community string Run As account with the SNMP Monitoring Account with the target as Dell Modular Chassis class or respective Chassis object (if you have different Run As accounts for different Chassis devices).
- To discover Chassis Slots and Chassis Slot Summary for Dell EMC Chassis Management Controller/OpenManage Enterprise Modular (CMC/OME-M), create Run As Accounts and associate it to the profiles — Dell CMC Login Account Run As Profiles. Also, enable the CMC Slot Discovery from the SCOM console.
- To perform Chassis Detailed monitoring, create Run As Accounts with WS-Man credentials that are required for accessing the Dell EMC CMC/OME-Ms, and associate it to the profiles — Dell CMC Login Account Run As Profiles.
NOTE: If you are using AD domain credentials for Dell EMC CMC/OME-M, then, enter the credentials in the following format:
username@domainname.com
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Configuring Dell EMC Chassis Management Controller/ OpenManage Enterprise Modular (CMC/OME-M) feature for correlating Server Modules with the Chassis Slot summary
- Create a Run As Account of type Simple Authentication that has privileges to connect to the CMC/OME-M on the chassis. Also, use the Basic or Digest Run As Account types for configuring the user credentials.
- Select the More Secure or Less Secure option in the Run As Account configuration, so that you can selectively distribute the configuration to specific management servers.
- Associate the created Run As Accounts with the Dell CMC Login Account profile and select the appropriate class, group, or object on which you can configure the profile.
To enable slot summary discovery for CMC/OME-M, override the enable property to True in Dell CMC Slot Discovery. It is disabled by default.
NOTE: Add the Server Management Action account to the SCOM administrator group.
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NOTE: After the slot discovery, if you remove the link between Run As Account with Run As Profile, or disable the slot-discovery workflow, the discovered slots remain with old data.
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Feature management tasks
The following table lists the Dell EMC Chassis monitoring tasks available on the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard. Some tasks that are listed in the Feature Management tasks table appear only after you have imported the Dell EMC Chassis monitoring feature.
NOTE: In the Event Log, ignore the errors pertaining to reimporting of existing management packs under the error logs. These errors occur when
Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard reimports all the dependent management packs that are already imported while importing a monitoring feature.
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NOTE: Wait for a task to complete (view the state update change in the dashboard) before running another task using the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard.
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Set to Scalable Monitoring |
If the Detailed feature is running on the system, the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard switches from the detailed feature to the scalable feature. On upgrading from the previous version, run this task to use the latest version for this monitoring feature. |
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Set to Detailed Monitoring |
If the scalable feature is running on the system, the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard switches from the scalable feature to the detailed feature. |
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Refresh Node Count |
Updates the node count. |
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Refresh Dashboard |
Updates the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard.
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