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Introduction to the Dell OpenManage
Plug-in Version 1.0 for Nagios Core
This guide provides information about the software requirements, system requirements, and the steps to
install and uninstall the Dell OpenManage Plug-in Version 1.0 for Nagios Core.
This plug-in provides capabilities to monitor 12th and later generations of Dell PowerEdge servers in the
data center through the agent-free method by using Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)
with Lifecycle Controller (LC).
This plug-in provides features as mentioned in Table 1.
Table 1. Key features
Feature Functionality
Device Discovery
Discovers 12th and later generations of Dell PowerEdge servers
through iDRAC with LC using the agent-free method of
monitoring. Once the discovery is complete, host and service
definitions are created for each device.
You can opt for either SNMP or WS-MAN protocol for device
discovery based on your requirement.
Device Information
Displays information about the discovered device (service tag,
server model, iDRAC firmware version, hostname, operating system
name or version, and so on) and its components (Fully Qualified
Device Descriptor, and so on) after a device discovery is successful.
You can view this information in the Hosts or the Services view in
the Nagios Core console.
For more information about the device information provided by the
plug-in, see Device Information in the Dell OpenManage Plug-in
Version 1.0 for Nagios Core User’s Guide.
Monitor overall health of Dell
devices
Monitors the overall health of Dell devices in a scheduled or
periodic manner.
Component level health of Dell
devices
Monitors health of the server components (physical drives, virtual
drives, fans, battery, server intrusion status, server network device
status, and so on) and displays the information about the Dell
device components at scheduled time intervals.
Monitor SNMP alerts
Monitors SNMP alerts for Dell devices. This feature displays only the
last received SNMP alert.
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