Users Guide

• Redfish profile support for network attributes
• iDRAC Hard Reset
• iDRAC access via Host OS (Experimental Feature)
• In-band iDRAC SNMP alerts
• View operating system (OS) information
• Replicate Lifecycle Controller logs to operating system logs
• Perform automatic system recovery options
• Populate Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Management Providers
• Integrate with SupportAssist Collection. This is applicable only if iDRAC Service Module version 2.0 or
later is installed. For more information, see Generating SupportAssist Collection.
• Prepare to Remove NVMe PCIe SSD. For more information, see Idracug_preparing to remove nvme
pcie ssd.
NOTE: The features such as Windows Management Instrumentation Providers, Prepare to Remove
NVMe PCIe SDD through iDRAC, Automating SupportAssist Collection OS collection are supported
only on Dell PowerEdge servers with minimum firmware version 2.00.00.00 or later.
Redfish profile support for network attributes
iDRAC Service Module v2.3 or later provides additional network attributes to iDRAC, which can be
obtained through the REST clients from iDRAC. For more details, see iDRAC Redfish profile support.
Operating system information
The OpenManage Server Administrator currently shares operating system information and host name
with iDRAC. The iDRAC Service Module provides similar information such as OS name, OS version, and
Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) with iDRAC. By default, this monitoring feature is enabled. It is not
disabled if OpenManage Server Administrator is installed on the host OS.
iDRAC Service Module version 2.0 or later has amended the operating system information feature with
the OS network interface Monitoring. When iDRAC Service Module version 2.0 or later is used with iDRAC
2.00.00.00, it starts monitoring the operating system network interfaces. You can view this information
using iDRAC web interface, RACADM, or WSMAN. For more information, see Viewing network interfaces
available on host os.
When iDRAC Service Module version 2.0 or later is used with iDRAC version lower than 2.00.00.00, the
OS information feature does not provide OS network interface monitoring.
Replicate Lifecycle logs to OS log
You can replicate the Lifecycle Controller Logs to the OS logs from the time when the feature is enabled
in iDRAC. This is similar to the System Event Log (SEL) replication performed by OpenManage Server
Administrator. All events that have the OS Log option selected as the target (in the Alerts page, or in the
equivalent RACADM or WSMAN interfaces) are replicated in the OS log using the iDRAC Service Module.
The default set of logs to be included in the OS logs is the same as configured for SNMP alerts or traps.
iDRAC Service Module also logs the events that have occurred when the operating system is not
functioning. The OS logging performed by iDRAC Service Module follows the IETF syslog standards for
Linux-based operating systems.
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