Detailed explanation of the Remote Monitoring System for DELL servers (multiple charts) (1)

The remote server monitoring system is something that many network administrators need to learn and master. Today we take the remote monitoring system of DELL servers as an example to describe the remote server monitoring system in detail.

The Dell PowerEdge M1000e modular blade server chassis and four Dell PowerEdge M600 blade servers are the most important products in the history of the evaluation room, and a bunch of boxes, big and small, are scary, the box is also a big guy with a 10U figure. There is an interesting sticker on the chassis. Two people carrying the chassis are used to indicate the weight of the Dell PowerEdge M1000e: 50 KG for Blank configuration and 183 KG for full blade configuration! (It's not easy to steal ......)

We can see from the weight and size of the Dell PowerEdge M1000e that once it is properly placed in the data center, it will be easy to move around. After all the Dell PowerEdge M1000e configurations are deployed, there will be a total of 16 half-height blades. It will be quite troublesome to deploy or manage the system. No administrator is willing to frequently access the data center, taking advantage of low temperature only to press any key on the keyboard, KVM and remote management tools are particularly important.

The Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis backplane integrates iKVM and related remote management tools. Chassis Management Controller (CMC) is short for the Chassis Management Controller. It is integrated with the Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) on each blade server ), you can remotely monitor and manage each blade system and chassis in the Dell PowerEdge M1000e. The iDRAC feature of Dell PowerEdge servers enables IT staff to easily view, monitor, and manage blade servers in a comfortable office, working with CMC's remote management and power control functions, this simplifies various management tasks and releases more human resources.

Now let's explain how Dell PowerEdge iDRAC works.

 

The slots on the left and top right of the M1000e chassis are the locations of the CMC card and iKVM in the middle. In the case of two-piece matching, it also works in master-slave hot standby mode, where the active card with blue light is on.

 

The CMC card is more like a knife and a professional kitchen knife than a blade server.

 

CMC interface:

The Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis comes with an LCD control panel. After powering on, you can set the CMC and the IP address of each blade server and other basic information, through the LAN browser, you can view the cmc gui in WEB mode.

 

CMC is a hot swapping system management hardware and software controller designed to provide remote management and Power Control for Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade servers. It has its own processor and memory, and obtains power from the modular blade server chassis. Its main features include:

• Support Microsoft Active Directory authentication: Directory services, such as Microsoft Active Directory, maintain a regular information database, which is necessary to control network users and assets; organizations using Active Directory can use this database to access CMC. Administrators can put CMC user IDs and passwords in Active Directory using standard or extended architectures for centralized management.

• Comprehensive Monitoring: CMC provides the use of system information and the status of various components, such as blade servers, power supplies, fans and temperature sensors.

• Access System Event Logs: CMC generates hardware logs for various events on the chassis, including the severity, time, and activity descriptions. Administrators can view and save text files and clear hardware logs from the CMC interface.

• Automated alerts: Automatic alerts: Administrators can configure CMC to send emails or use Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps, provides warnings or error prompts related to temperature, hardware misconfiguration, power failure, fan speed, and so on.

 

The Dell PowerEdge M1000e has a total of nine redundant fans, and CMC provides real-time running status and speed for all fans.

 

In the Power Supply Section, the Dell PowerEdge M1000e has a total of 6 power supplies, of which 3 are used for power supply and 3 are used for hot backup. The power supply information is also provided in CMC.

Of course, the most important feature of CMC is to monitor all blade servers in the Dell PowerEdge M1000e. Identify the SLOT Sequence of the blade server, or define the name of the server. Click the server in the list on the left, and its specific information will be displayed on the right, such as power running status, server model and serial number, as well as the IP information of the corresponding iDRAC controller.