Dell EMC VxRack FLEX - Configuring System Monitoring for the Vxrack Server

Configuring system monitoring for the VxRack
server
Use this procedure to configure system monitoring for the VxRack server.
Before you begin
Verify that you have access to the iDRAC.
Procedure
1 Log on to the iDRAC interface of the node.
2 Select Alerts and confirm that the radio button next to Enabled is active. If not, click the radio
button and then click Apply.
3 Under Alerts and Remote System Log Configuration select the alerts you wish to enable and
click Apply.
4 Select the SNMP and Email Settings tab.
The community string should already be populated for the Vision software server. Do
not remove this entry.
5 To add a second destination IP address for an existing customer monitoring system, type the
address into the Alert Destination2 IP field, check the State check box and click Apply.
Customer monitoring must support SNMP v2 and use the Community string already
configured on the VxRack System compute server for Vision software.
6 Under Destination Email Addresses type the information in the following fields:
Parameter Description
Email Alert 1-4 Email address to send the alert.
Primary SMTP (Email) Server IP address or FQDN /
DNS Name
The IP address associated with the primary SMTP
server to which email is sent.
Enable Authentication Check this box if the SMTP server requires SMTP
authentication. This also enables setting the
username and password.
User name Part of the authentication credentials for the primary
SMTP server. Used only if authentication is
enforced.
Password Part of the authentication credentials for the primary
SMTP server. Used only if authentication is
enforced.
SMTP Port Number If the customer uses an SMTP port other than 25
(i.e. 587).
7 Click Apply.
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