Dell MX7000 Chassis

Description

This connector provides environmental information (temperatures, fans and power supplies) for Dell Blade servers through the Management Module.

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Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Superseded Connector

This connector is superseded by:

• DellMXREST

Target

Typical platform: Dell PowerEdge

Operating system: Out-Of-Band

This connector is not available for the local host (it is applicable to remote hosts only).

Prerequisites

Leverages: Dell MX7000 Management Module

Technology and protocols: Commands

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t oob -c +DellMXCMC --ssh -u USER

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: oob
        connectors: [ +DellMXCMC ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          ssh:
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The Dell MX7000 Chassis connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The command below succeeds on the monitored host:
  • Command: getsysinfo
  • Output contains: RAC (regex)

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
battery	hw.status{hw.type="battery", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="battery", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name
blade	hw.power_state{hw.type="blade", state="off|on|suspended"} hw.status{hw.type="blade", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="blade", state="present"}	blade_name hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id model name
disk_controller	hw.status{hw.type="disk_controller", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="disk_controller", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id model name
enclosure	hw.enclosure.energy hw.enclosure.power hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="present"}	id model name serial_number type
fan	hw.fan.speed hw.fan.speed.limit{limit_type="low.critical"} hw.fan.speed.limit{limit_type="low.degraded"} hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name sensor_location
logical_disk	hw.logical_disk.limit hw.status{hw.type="logical_disk", state="degraded|failed|ok"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name raid_level
other_device	hw.status{hw.type="other_device", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="other_device", state="present"}	device_type hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name
physical_disk	hw.physical_disk.size hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="predicted_failure"} hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name serial_number vendor
power_supply	hw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name
temperature	hw.status{hw.type="temperature", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="temperature", state="present"} hw.temperature hw.temperature.limit{limit_type="high.critical"} hw.temperature.limit{limit_type="high.degraded"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name sensor_location