White Paper Telemetry Streaming with iDRAC9 – Storage Reports Abstract Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers with iDRAC9 4.x Datacenter stream data to help IT administrators better understand the inner workings of their server environment. This white paper explains how to use the Telemetry Storage reports for getting the details of the drives and cards on the PowerEdge servers.
Revisions Revisions Date Description July 2020 Initial release Acknowledgments Authors: Sailaja Mahendrakar, Sankara Gara, Cyril Jose, Texas Roemer, Sankunny Jayaprasad. The information in this publication is provided “as is.” Dell Inc. makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to the information in this publication, and specifically disclaims implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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Executive summary Executive summary Beginning with iDRAC9 v4.00.00.00 firmware and a Datacenter license, IT managers can integrate advanced server hardware operation telemetry into their existing analytics solutions. Telemetry is provided as granular, timeseries data that is streamed, or pushed, compared to inefficient, legacy polling, or pulled, methods. The advanced agent-free architecture in iDRAC9 provides over 180 data metrics that are related to server and peripherals operations.
Technical support and resources 1 Introduction Telemetry Storage reports are helpful to assess the health and state of the various drives on the server and becomes necessary as the number of drives increase on the server. One key set of metric reports are the Storage reports. Storage reports provide data for both SSD Smart drives as well as NVMe SMART drives. This data can be used to assess the health and state of the drives on the server.
Technical support and resources 2 Telemetry Storage Metric Reports The health state of the SSD drives behind PERC storage controller can be assessed with the telemetry metric report named “StorageDiskSmartData”. And similarly, the health state of the PCIeSSD devices which are not controlled by SWRAID controller, can be derived with the telemetry metric report named “NVMeSMARTData”. The temperature information of storage devices can be found from the telemetry metric report named “StorageSensor”.
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Technical support and resources NumOfErrorInfoLogEntriesUpper PercentageUsed PowerCyclesLower PowerCyclesUpper PowerOnHoursLower PowerOnHoursUpper UnsafeShutdownsLower UnsafeShutdownsUpper 2.1.3 StorageSensor Metric Report Metrics of the StorageSensor telemetry report and the corresponding description of the metrics: StorageSensor 2.2 9 TemperatureReading Temperature information for server storage internal devices Supported Devices for Storage Metric Reports • • • 2.
Technical support and resources 2.4 Workflow Examples Configuration of the Storage reports could be done with either of interface racadm/redfish/SCP. Example: racadm>>set idrac.telemetry.EnableTelemetry [Key=idrac.Embedded.1#Telemetry.1] Object value modified successfully Enabled racadm>>set idrac.TelemetryNVMeSMARTData.1.EnableTelemetry Enabled [Key=idrac.Embedded.1#TelemetryNVMeSMARTData.
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Technical support and resources A Technical support and resources iDRAC Telemetry Workflow Examples https://github.com/dell/iDRAC-Telemetry-Scripting/ Open-source iDRAC REST API with Redfish Python and PowerShell examples. https://github.com/dell/iDRAC-Redfish-Scripting The iDRAC support home page provides access to product documents, technical white papers, how-to videos, and more. www.dell.com/support/idrac iDRAC User Guides and other manuals www.dell.com/idracmanuals Dell Technical Support www.Dell.
