Dell iDRAC8 manual Operating System Information, Replicate Lifecycle Logs to OS Log

•Replicate Lifecycle Controller logs to operating system logs

•Perform automatic system recovery options

•Populate Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Management Providers

•Integrate with Technical Support Report. This is applicable only if iDRAC Service Module Version 2.0 or later is installed. For more information, see Generating Tech Support Report.

•Integrate with NVMe Management for Prepare to Remove operation on a NVMe class PCIe SSD. For more information, see Preparing to Remove PCIe SSD.

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 2.0 has amended the operating system information feature with the OS network interface Monitoring. When iDRAC Service Module version 2.0 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 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.

If OpenManage Server Administrator is installed, this monitoring feature is disabled to avoid duplicate SEL entries in the OS log.

Automatic System Recovery Options

You can perform automatic system recovery operations such as reboot, power cycle, or power off the server after a specified time interval. This feature is enabled only if the operating system watchdog timer is disabled. If OpenManage Server Administrator is installed, this monitoring feature is disabled to avoid duplicate watchdog timers.

WMI Management Providers

You can enable or disable the WMI option in iDRAC. iDRAC exposes the WMI classes through the iDRAC Service Module providing the server’s health information. By default, WMI information feature is enabled. The iDRAC Service Module exposes the WSMAN monitored classes in iDRAC through WMI. The classes are exposed in the root/cimv2/dcim namespace.

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