User Guide

Network Dell iDRAC

The nep-network-dell-idrac provides the minimum requirements to implement a basic monitoring of a iDRAC using SNMP protocol. With nep-network-dell-idrac it is possible to perform standard monitoring of:

  • All Base monitoring DELL iDRAC

Using the provided objects, is possible to:

  • HW Temperature

  • HW Memory

  • HW Power Supplies

  • HW Fans

  • HW Power Redundancy

  • HW Disks

  • HW Raid

  • HW Battery

  • HW Overview

The offical plugin manual

Minimum supported environment

This package can be installed on systems running the software described below. Systems with equivalent components are also suitable for installation.

Required software

Requirements

NetEye

Version 4.20+

NetEye modules

Core

Package requirements

Service and Host Template shipped with package nep-network-dell-idrac require the following nep:

  • nep-common

  • nep-network-base

Setup instructions

If all requirements are met, you can now install this package. To manually set up the nep-network-dell-idrac package, just use nep-setup utility to install it.

nep-setup install nep-network-dell-idrac

Once installed the following custom variables should be set:

  • nx_hardware_vendor = Dell

  • host_os = iDRAC

Available Objects

This section contains a description of all the Objects from this package that can be used to build your own monitoring environment.

Director Objects

This package contains the following Director Objects:

Data Lists

The following Data Lists can be freely customized by the End User. Their purpose is to provide easy data filling to better describe the monitoring environment.

Datalist name

Description

[NX] iDRAC Mode List

Used to provide the list of check available for check_nwc_health command

Service Templates

The following Service Templates can be used to freely create Service Objects, Service Apply Rules or Service Sets. Remember to not edit these Service Templates because they will be restored/updated at the next NEP Package update.

Template name

Run on Agent

Description

nx-st-agentless-snmp-idrac

No

Checks all base monitoring DELL iDRAC using check_idrac2

Service Sets

The following Service Sets can be used to freely monitor Host Objects. Remember to not edit these Service Sets because they will be restored/updated at the next NEP Package update.

Service Set name

Description

nx-ss-network-idrac-base

Service Set providing all Base monitoring DELL iDRAC: Temperature,Memory,Power Supplies,Fans,Power Redundancy,Disks,Raid,Battery,Overview

ITOA Dashboards

The Package does not provide any ITOA Dashboards right now.

Package’s objects list

Object Type

Object Name

Do not edit

Containing File

Director Command

check_idrac2

No

baskets/import/nep-network-dell-idrac-02-command.json

Director Data List

[NX] iDRAC Mode List

No

baskets/import/nep-network-dell-idrac-01-datalist.json

Director Service Set

nx-ss-network-idrac-base

No

baskets/import/nep-network-dell-idrac-04-service.json

Director Service Template

nx-st-agentless-snmp-idrac

No

baskets/import/nep-network-dell-idrac-04-service.json