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January 24th, 2025 14:59
With OMSA going away how do we use SNMP trap monitoring in Windows going forward?
We have a monitoring agent installed on Dell PowerEdge servers that we manage which is capable of monitoring SNMP traps to get different hardware statuses. (cpu temp, raid health, etc.) In order to accomplish this, we install OMSA and under custom configuration we install the SNMP feature. (I assume this creates the traps that the OS SNMP service can utilize to report to our agent)
With OMSA going away we won't be able to install the SNMP feature (I assume) on servers going forward. Is there now going to be another way to accomplish this from the Windows OS level? I have seen where the iDRAC supports SNMP but I don't know how I would need to configure that to work with Windows so that our Monitoring Agent can parse the SNMP Windows Trap service to get those readings.
Would anyone be able to tell me if there will be a stand alone SNMP install package or what the appropriate way to parse the idrac would be?
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January 28th, 2025 19:30
@DELL-Chris H Thanks for the reply. We use N-Able RMM to manage many different customers servers and workstations. For the server side, we usually only have a single server at any given location and these locations have NO communication with each other.
I feel like the OpenManage Enterprise is more suited for a company that has several servers they need to manage from a central location.
As I mentioned before, we have a software agent that runs under windows and most of the servers we manage are 12th through 14th generation servers. The SNMP checks that we setup in the software agent are looking for OID like 1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.200.10.1.21.1 (status of cooling devices combined). From what I understand the OMSA installs something that allows the Windows SNMP Service to communicate with the "public" community name that runs on the server and report hardware statuses to our monitoring agent which in turn uploads that to our management dashboard.
Below the first screenshot shows the particular feature we have to install from the OMSA installer that allows this to work. The 2nd picture shows the SNMP Service Properties that has the Security 'trap' which allows our software agent to communicate and get the hardware status.
It's only this SNMP feature from OMSA that I think needs to be installed in order for us to continue to get the hardware status. Do you know if there is a standalone download that will be provided for that going forward and if not, would there be some other type of way the software agent running on the server would be able to obtain hardware information using the SNMP protocol?
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January 28th, 2025 19:41
@DELL-Chris H I should have also uploaded what the check from our software looks like. Here's another screenshot that shows how our monitor software is configured to check the SNMP.
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March 3rd, 2025 14:10
@DELL-Chris H
I wanted to follow up on this since I have not heard back. Please seem my response to yours and let me know if there will be a different way we can enable the SNMP traps to allow our management software to work. Thanks!