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September 30th, 2020 10:00
Dell EMC PowerEdge R640&R740: get list of active alerts
It is possible to configure SNMP traps to get alerts or cofigure eventService or mail notification and so on, but if a management station is just started or connected, is any way to get list of active alarms from Dell EMC PowerEdge R640&R740 (from IDRAC 9)?
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Arhangel
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October 1st, 2020 04:00
Aftre paying with temperature thresholds for simulating alerts I found that redfish interface actually support possibility to privide active list of alerts via this URL: /redfish/v1/Managers/iDRAC.Embedded.1/LogServices/FaultList/Entries
So, when I set max temperature threshold lower then current temperature, alert with message id TMP0120 was visible under this URL, when recovered the threshold value, it is disapiared.
But why dosn't it described at all in any DELL documentation? Who does know if I really can rely on this FaultList? Will it contains all kind of statefull alerts?
Dell-DylanJ
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September 30th, 2020 14:00
Hello,
The alarms can be viewed from the iDRAC, or from one of the OpenManage software utilities. To my knowledge, there is not a way to extract a list of only the active alerts. You could use the command 'racadm getsel' to get some information, but it would still require parsing, as this would give you the entire SEL, not a segment of it. There might be a 3rd paty utility you could use and tie into it with the OpenManage MIB pack, but there's none I know of that would allow this.
Let me know if you have any other questions regarding the iDRAC or alarms.
Arhangel
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September 30th, 2020 23:00
Hi Dell-DylanJ,
Thank you for your reply. I didn't find required functionality in DELL documentation as well. The only thing that could be probably used insted of SEL is EventLog (/redfish/v1/Managers/Self/LogServices/EventLog/Entries). But it is hard to say if it is reliable and contains all possible alerts. Documentation doesn't cover it in any details. Do you think that it can be analysed for seaching for some missed alerts?
DELL-Erman O
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October 1st, 2020 01:00
Hi Arhangel,
I did some research to help until Dylan came along. That's is a tough question for me. Frankly, I couldn't find the exact result you wanted. Might be this event listener work for you https://dell.to/2GeCY7M;
or OMSA event filter alerts it might be work for you https://dell.to/2Gii0ES
Arhangel
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October 1st, 2020 06:00
Dell EMC OpenManag is a managemant station that should be installed outside of managed Dell EMC PowerEdge R640&R740 servers. We don't use it, so I don't think that it is possible to find an answer there.
DELL-Marco B
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October 1st, 2020 06:00
Hello,
i cannot answer to why it doesn't described in a Dell documentation, maybe you can find useful info on SNMP alerts here:
https://dell.to/30o2YEE
thanks
Marco
Dell-DylanJ
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October 2nd, 2020 15:00
Hello,
You might consider checking out this page. It has some links to what documentation we have for the iDRAC's implementation of the Redfish API. While I have a little programming experience, I'm coming from a tech support background. I've not used the API at all, so I can't promise that what you're looking for is here, but it does seem to be the best place to start.
https://dell.to/3l0HsO6