Dell iDRAC - Management Console

[Dan~]

Do Dell have software where you can manager multiple servers through idrac?  

 

We have multiple and I'd like to set like a Policy for all servers to send reports of hardware issues, I can do it individually on the idrac, but want an option where I have one central management point.

 

Thanks

[Skiver Veteran]

I don't know of an official dell piece of software but Remote Desktop Manager Free has something like this, I don't have any dell idrac but I do have HP ILO and it looks like this;

 

[Jason S. Global Moderator]

We have iDRAC Enterprise on several of our servers, but ive never seen anything like this offered. You might look into the Enterprise option and see if something like this is offered.

[Forjo]

Is there some reason you aren't using Open Manage Essentials?  http://www.dell.com/support/Article/us/en/19/SLN283208/EN

 

-Forjo

[Dan~]

I was looking at Open Manager Essentials but that looks more like an agent base.

 

I was hoping for something like a console then add the idrac IP, set a policy for all like "Email notification upon XXXX" whether that be hdd failure, psu etc

[Skiver Veteran]

Apologies I misunderstood what you were looking for, sorry not aware of anything.

[sc302 Veteran]

I think dell Kace may have something to manage everything from one console.

 

This is the next closest thing I can think of

 

https://help.landesk.com/topic/index/enu/ldms/9.5/content/windows/alert_monitor_r_dell_drac.htm

 

 

 

[Jason S. Global Moderator]

i know youre looking for a central management piece, but our iDRACs already do that individually - sending out notifications when there's a hardware problem.

[sc302 Veteran]

some people want that single pane of glass to glance at, not relying on notifications or using it as a secondary.   I fully understand where he is coming from, esp from a kvm perspective (being able to easily jump between servers without having a link to click on, creds to type in, or saved in an unsecure browser cache). 

[Dan~]

I'll have a look at the Kace later on  

 

It's a shame, something like this doesn't exist, especially as we have a fair amount of dell servers now and good to have these notifications setup for overnight notifications etc.

 

Not sure how Data centres manage if they use dell  like us

 

Thanks

[giantsnyy]

At Teradata we use a custom interface to monitor the Dell iDRAC's (Teradata's new equipment is essentially all Dell R710's, 720's and 730's).  While I know that isn't helpful, I can tell you that it interfaces using standard IPMI interfaces.  If you can find a tool that can alert from an IPMI event, you're good.  Nagios or something similar should work with an IPMI plugin.

[+Thayios Subscriber²]

Dell OMSE does what you're looking to do (when you right click on the server, it'll pop up the linked Dell stuff like the iDRAC console).