Administrator Guide

Telemetry Overview
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1 Telemetry Overview
1.1 Terms and Definitions
Telemetry: Telemetry is an automated communications process by which measurements and other data are
collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring
.
Telemetry Report: Telemetry (Metric) Report is a DMTF Telemetry specification-compliant JSON document
that consists of Metric names, Metric values, and Timestamps.
SSE: Server-Sent Events allow for a client to open a connection with a web service. The web service can
continuously push data to the client as needed.
Remote Syslog (Rsyslog): Remote Syslog uses the basic syslog protocol along with rich content-based
filtering and flexible configuration options.
1.2 Prerequisites
The Telemetry feature is available on iDRAC9 firmware version 4.00.00.00 or above with Datacenter license
installed.