Users Guide

View Sensor Information For Using Web Interface Using RACADM
For more information, see the
iDRAC8 RACADM Command Line
Interface Reference Guide
available at dell.com/support/
manuals.
Fan
Overview → Hardware → Fans
CPU
Overview → Hardware → CPU
Memory
Overview → Hardware →
Memory
Intrusion
Overview → Server → Intrusion
Power Supplies
Overview → Hardware → Power
Supplies
Removable Flash Media
Overview → Hardware →
Removable Flash Media
Temperature
Overview → Server → Power/
Thermal
→ Temperatures
Voltage
Overview → Server → Power/
Thermal
→ Voltages
Monitoring Performance Index of CPU, Memory, and I/O
Modules
In 13
th
generation Dell PowerEdge servers, Intel ME provides support for Compute Usage Per Second
(CUPS) functionality. The CUPS functionality provides real-time monitoring of CPU, memory and I/O
utilization and system-level utilization index for the system. Since it is done by Intel ME, it is independent
of the OS and does not consume CPU resources. The Intel ME has a system CUPS sensor which provides
the Computation, Memory and I/O resource utilization value as CUPS Index. iDRAC monitors this CUPS
index for the overall system utilization and also monitors the instantaneous value of CPU, Memory, and
I/O utilization index.
Utilization information of system resources is obtained by querying the data from a set of dedicated
counters provided by the CPU and chipset. These counters are called Resource Monitoring Counters or
RMCs. These counters are aggregated by the node manager to measure the cumulative utilization of
each of these system resources that is read from the iDRAC using existing inter-communication
mechanisms to provide these vital data through out-of-band management interfaces.
Since Intel sensor representation of performance parameters and index values are for complete physical
system, performance data representation on the interfaces is for the complete physical system, even if
the system is virtualized and hosting multiple virtual hosts.
To display the performance parameters, the supported sensors must be present in the server.
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