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If your Dell EMC PowerEdge system is equipped with an LCD panel, it can be used to configure or view the iDRAC IP address of the system. The LCD panel is available only on an optional front bezel.

From the Setup menu, use the iDRAC option to select DHCP or Static IP to configure the network mode. If Static IP is selected, the following fields are available:

On Dell hardware, you have the option of configuring the Forge Appliance LCD, a small readout on the computer’s front panel. Use these steps to configure the LCD display for Forge:

Press Esc > Esc > Esc to exit the iDRAC Settings page and the System Setup Main Menu, then continue with instructions in Section 6.0, Installing Other Components Required by Forge.

Enable SNMPv1 in the iDRACs you wish to monitor. Install and setup Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana to work with eachother. Use the provided idrac-input.conf file and replace the values for “idracURLx” under “agent” with your own iDRAC IPs or hostnames. Restart Telegraf. Then, import the dashboard json file (or use Grafana Dashboard ID) to add the dashboard and panels to Grafana, selecting your own InfluxDB database after clicking “Import”. Data may take up to 2 minutes to fully populate the first time. Enjoy!

FeaturesUses Grafana variables to dynamically pull in all iDRACs listed in the Telegraf config file, and draw a new “row” section for each iDRAC that gets added.

Adding more data is as simple as adding the appropriate iDRAC OID to the Telegraf config file, and adding a panel to display the new data on the dashboard.

iDRAC has the capability to display a TON of data through SNMP and it’s easy to expand this dashboard to add more of it, per your collection and monitoring needs. I used the Dell MIB Files with an MIB Browser and the Dell EMC OpenManage SNMP Reference Guide to figure out the OIDs.

One of the only major data related problems I could not figure out was the proper display of Date & Time for system log entries. Dell outputs a date & time stamp for each log entry in the format: 20200420173454.000000-300. This is what is displayed in the system log table panel as Grafana can’t understand and re-format dates and times in this provided format it seems, to make it looks pretty, such as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS I have heard that Telegraf/InfluxDB may have a way for this data to be transformed into a better structure before it makes it to Grafana, although I have come up empty with easy or even semi-easy ways to do this. Hoping somebody else knows a fix that isn’t extremely involved.

Fix implemented per @krystiancharubin regex processor in idrac-input.confSometimes, for only a few seconds, the data in the tables repeats itself and gets out of line, even though the “group by” in the query has a limit of 1.

In the server’s own BIOS options there is a Custom LCD field but entering text here and restarting doesn’t change the panel – it still just shows the Service Tag. Strangely, the iDRAC BIOS doesn’t offer you any control here at all, it just lists what the custom string currently is.

To make matters worse, I had accidentally got the desired result on one of the servers, but couldn’t get the second one configured. The answer lies with the buttons next to the LCD. Though you can view IP settings, temperature, power usage, etc., there is also a Setup option. With 48GB of RAM, each POST of the machine takes about 5 minutes so I had been too cautious to mess about with these options in case I undid some of my initial iDRAC config. I assumed that they would only provide a subset of the BIOS options. Wrong! You needto use the panel – even the iDRAC WebUI doesn’t seem to configure the LCD screen.

A dental client of ours had their server down. On the boot screen it stuck at: initializing iDRAC. We were unable get into BIOS or diagnostics and the iDRAC was not responding over the network.

Reset the iDRAC by manually holding ”i” button down for 30 seconds. It soft resets the idrac yet keeps the config. After that, we updated the BIOS and the iDRAC to fix it the issue permanently.