Administrator Guide

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3 Prefailure alerts provided by Dell EMC PowerEdge server systems management | ID 426
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................................................... 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 The integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) .................................................................................... 5
1.2 iDRAC monitoring and alerting ........................................................................................................................... 5
2 Alerts ............................................................................................................................................................................ 7
2.1 Drive alerts .......................................................................................................................................................... 9
2.2 System Processor (CPU) alerts ........................................................................................................................ 10
2.3 Memory alerts ................................................................................................................................................... 11
2.3.1 Memory Page Retire ......................................................................................................................................... 11
2.3.2 Fault Resilient Memory ..................................................................................................................................... 11
2.4 Temperature and fan alerts .............................................................................................................................. 12
2.5 Power Supply alerts .......................................................................................................................................... 13
3 Beyond Alerts – policy-based actions ........................................................................................................................ 14
3.1 Alerts and OpenManage Enterprise ................................................................................................................. 14
3.2 Alerts and Partner Consoles ............................................................................................................................. 16
4 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................. 19
A Technical support and resources ............................................................................................................................... 20