Users Guide

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DRAC Monitoring Feature
DRAC monitoring feature supports discovery, and monitoring for the various generations of iDRAC
(iDRAC6, iDRAC7, and iDRAC8 systems) using SNMP.
Discovery and grouping
The Dell Server Management Pack Suite enables you to discover and classify Dell Remote Access
Controllers (DRAC), and integrated DRAC (iDRAC).
The following table lists the details of the hardware discovery and grouping by the Dell DRAC monitoring
feature.
Table 16. Dell Hardware discovery and grouping
Group Diagram View Hardware Type
Dell Remote Access Controllers Remote Access Controller Group iDRAC modular, and iDRAC
monolithic instances.
NOTE: DRAC monitoring
feature does not support the
discovery of xx0x iDRAC
modular controllers. You
can manage these devices
using the Scalable Edition of
Agent-based monitoring
feature.
Discovering DRAC Devices
The DRAC devices must be discovered as network devices under the Administration section of the
OpsMgr console.
To discover DRAC devices:
1. Log on to the management server as an OpsMgr administrator.
2. On the OpsMgr console, click Administration.
3. At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Discovery Wizard.
4. Run the Discovery Wizard, select Network devices and follow the instructions on the screen.
For more information, see the OpsMgr documentation at technet.microsoft.com.
5. On the Add a Device console screen in OpsMgr 2012, type the IP address that you want to scan,
select the appropriate Run As account from the SNMP V1 or V2 Run As account drop-down box.
6. Enable the DRAC monitoring feature using Feature Management Dashboard.
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