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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:

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.

The Dell Remote Access Controller, or DRAC, is an out-of-band management platform on certain Dell servers. The platform may be provided on a separate expansion card, or integrated into the main board; when integrated, the platform is referred to as iDRAC.

The Dell Remote Access Controllers (DRAC) and the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controllers (iDRAC) come in different versions, where a new (i)DRAC version is often linked to a new generation of Poweredge servers.

The hardware is often integrated on the motherboard of the server, and the combined product is termed iDRAC, where the "i" is for integrated. When iDRAC Express is used, the software and hardware systems management functions are shared with one of the server"s on-board network interfaces using a unique IP address. By contrast, iDRAC Enterprise version features a dedicated physical network interface.

iDRAC version 7 was introduced in conjunction with the release of Dell PowerEdge generation 12 servers in March 2012, and is only available on 12th generation models.

Earlier versions of the DRAC used ActiveX in Internet Explorer to provide a remote-console interface in a web browser; however, this was unpopular with non-Windows users who did not have access to Internet Explorer. The latest revision of the DRAC6 uses a Java application instead (launched from within the browser), though both the DRAC5 and iDRAC6 also provided the aforementioned platform-independent SSH access.

iDRAC6 is available in two levels: iDRAC6 Express and iDRAC6 Enterprise. iDRAC6 Express (which integrates features previously charged for in DRAC5) became a standard offering on Dell"s servers. Certain features are not available for the Express version, including the remote console functionality and the vFlash SD card slot. As with iDRAC, iDRAC6 Enterprise is a standard offering on blade servers

On 6 March 2012, software version 1.00.00 for the iDRAC7 was released for generation 12 servers. iDRAC 7 does not work on earlier generation servers although some of the new functions introduced with iDRAC 7 might be offered in iDRAC 6 releases.

With the introduction of iDRAC 7, the licensing model has changed. iDRAC 7 now supports lifecycle controller. Some features of Lifecycle controller are licensed and to access those features via iDRAC the correct licenses for those functions need to be enabled.

To take advantage of storage greater than 256 MB on the iDRAC6 enterprise, Dell requires that a vFlash SD card be procured through Dell channels. As of December 2011, Dell vFlash SD cards differ from consumer SD cards by being over-provisioned by 100% for increased write endurance and performance.

On a Linux client system the standard arrow and print screen keys cannot be used in the iDRAC6 Java virtual console application because of some incompatible key event IDs;

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.