Description

This connector provides environmental information (temperatures, fans and power supplies) on Dell Blade servers through the Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC).

Target

Typical platform: Dell PowerEdge

Operating system: Out-Of-Band

Prerequisites

Leverages: Dell Remote Access Controller/Modular Chassis (DRAC/MC)

Technology and protocols: Command Lines

This connector is not available for the local host (it is applicable to remote hosts only).

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t management -c +DellDRACMC --ssh -u USER

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: management
        selectConnectors: [ DellDRACMC ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          ssh:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The Dell DRAC/MC (Dell Remote Access Controller/Modular Chassis) connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The command below succeeds on the monitored host
  • Command: getsysinfo
  • Output contains: RAC (regex)

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