Description

This connector enables hardware monitoring for Dell PowerEdge servers through their Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC v9 or later). It monitors the enclosure and physical disks, as well as the various environment sensors (CPUs, temperatures, fans, power supplies, memory modules, disk controllers, batteries, voltages and network cards).

This connector supersedes:

• DelliDRACServer^[2]
• DelliDRACStorage^[3]
• IpmiTool^[4]
• RedFish^[5]

dell^[6] enterprise^[7] hardware^[8]

Target

Typical platform: Dell PowerEdge

Operating system: Out-Of-Band

Prerequisites

Leverages: N/A

Technology and protocols: HTTP/REST

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

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t management -c +DelliDRACREST --https --http-port 443 -u USERNAME

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: management
        connectors: [ +DelliDRACREST ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          http:
            https: true
            port: 443 # or probably something else
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The Dell iDRAC9 (REST) connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The HTTP Request below to the managed host succeeds:
  • GET /redfish/v1
  • Request Header:
    ${file::embeddedFile-1}
  • The response body contains: Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (regex)

Metrics