Dell MX Chassis and Blades (REST)

Description

This connector enables hardware monitoring for Dell MX Series. It monitors the enclosure and physical disks as well as the various environment sensors (CPUs, temperatures, fans, power supplies, memory, disk controllers, batteries and network cards).

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Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Supersedes

This connector supersedes:

• DellMXCMC

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: N/A

Technology and protocols: HTTP

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t oob -c +DellMXREST --https --http-port 443 -u USERNAME

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: oob
        connectors: [ +DellMXREST ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          http:
            https: true
            port: 443 # or probably something else
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The Dell MX Chassis and Blades (REST) connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The HTTP Request below to the managed host succeeds:
  • GET /api/DeviceService/Devices
  • Request Header: ${file::embeddedFile-1}
  • The response body contains: api (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.status{hw.type="blade", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="blade", state="present"}	blade_name hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id info model name serial_number
cpu	hw.cpu.speed.limit{limit_type="max"} hw.status{hw.type="cpu", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="cpu", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id model name vendor
disk_controller	hw.status{hw.type="disk_controller", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="disk_controller", state="present"}	controller_number firmware_version hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name
enclosure	hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="present"}	id model name serial_number type vendor
fan	hw.fan.speed hw.fan.speed_ratio hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name
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
memory	hw.memory.limit hw.status{hw.type="memory", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="memory", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id model name serial_number vendor
network	hw.network.bandwidth.limit hw.network.up hw.status{hw.type="network", state="present"}	device_type hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id model name physical_address physical_address_type vendor
other_device	hw.status{hw.type="other_device", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="other_device", state="present"}	device_type hw.parent.type id info name
physical_disk	hw.physical_disk.endurance_utilization{state="remaining"} hw.physical_disk.size hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id info model name serial_number
power_supply	hw.power_supply.limit 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 power_supply_type
temperature	hw.status{hw.type="temperature", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="temperature", state="present"} hw.temperature	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name