Monitoring Dell server health with iDRAC8?

mpageau

I am a noob when it comes to Solarwinds. I used to monitor my servers with PRTG.

How can I get see my Dell server health by adding the iDRAC8 as a node?

I have created the node with the SNMP credentials. By default, Solarwinds was able to retrieve the server "system name" and "machine type", but I don't see anything else.

What are the next steps to be able to monitor the power supplies/temperature/hard-drives/etc.

Thanks

mesverrum

In Solarwinds you can get hardware health directly from the guest OS as long as you have the dell omsa software installed and you don't have to do anything extra.

If you want to gather those stats directly from the IDRAC interface then you will need to use what they call a Universal Device Poller to gather the stats from those SNMP OIDS

See this thread

Dell Hardware Monitoring