Should nodes for Dell Physical Windows servers be WMI or SNMP to be able to properly monitor the hardware.
I'm looking at a WMI node and I don't see that the drives are noted in the hardware tab. I see Fan, Power Supply, Temperature, Memory and CPU
You can see the difference between using the SNMP and WMI to monitor the server hardware health：
Difference in Hardware Health by manufacturer and polling method for servers - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Suppo…
Dell OSAM Agent v8.4 :
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Managed Node(windows - 64 bit),v8.4 Driver Details | Dell US
Typically this is due to running an old firmware or version of OMSA, see mention here
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/f/4494/t/19440792 https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=83704
Actually I reached out to the owner of the server and they didn't mind loosing the history on the node because it was being moved from a test to a production environment so I changed it to poll via SNMP.
The drives are showing now!
ah yeah theres that too, some stats only show up in SNMP, others in WMI
Discover with SNMP
Keegan, thanks for those links!
So if I'm reading that correctly, based on the chart SolarWinds does not monitor the drive hardware health when using WMI node polling. Yes, OMSA 8.4 is installed on the Window's server node.
Or is there any way to configure Solarwinds to enable this feature?
To clarify, management prefer's to monitor all nodes via WMI. I got scolded when I switched it to SNMP and was told to switch it back.
For any node has been polled with SNMP in the past you can enable some UNDP pollers to check the array info, along with the other sensors that aren't available via the Dell OMSA tool using WMI
Disk:
OID = ARRAYDISKNUMBER
1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10893.1.20.130.4.1.1
OID = arrayDiskName
1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10893.1.20.130.4.1.2
OID = arrayDiskSerialNo
1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10893.1.20.130.4.1.7
OID = arrayDiskLengthInMB
1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10893.1.20.130.4.1.11
OID = arrayDiskComponentStatus
1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10893.1.20.130.4.1.14
Raid controller:
OID = CONTROLLERNUMBER
1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10893.1.20.130.1.1.1
OID = controllerName
1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10893.1.20.130.1.1.2
OID = controllerComponentStatus
1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10893.1.20.130.1.1.38
Chassis Intrusion:
OID = SYSTEMSTATECHASSISINTRUSIONSTATUSCOMBINED
1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.200.10.1.30
Battery:
OID = BATTERYCHASSISINDEX
1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.600.50.1.1
OID = batteryIndex
1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.600.50.1.2
OID = batteryStatus
1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.600.50.1.5
OID = batteryLocationName
1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.600.50.1.7
The WMI interface for Dell OSMA only provides the following information：
Dell WMI Classes are polled from the "root\cimv2\dell" namespace:
Does not contain disk，you can use WBEMTEST to check.
