Instrumentation Service; Overview - Dell External OEMR 850 User Manual

Instrumentation Service

Overview

The Server Administrator Instrumentation Service monitors the health of a system and provides
rapid access to detailed fault and performance information gathered by industry standard systems
management agents. The reporting and viewing features allow retrieval of overall health status for
each of the chassis that comprise your system. At the subsystem level, you can view information
about the voltages, temperatures, current, fan rpm, and memory function at key points in the
system. A detailed account of every relevant cost of ownership (COO) detail about your system can
be seen in summary view. Version information for BIOS, firmware, operating system, and all
installed systems management software is easy to retrieve.
Additionally, systems administrators can use the Instrumentation Service to perform the following
essential tasks:
• Specify minimum and maximum values for certain critical components. The values, called
thresholds, determine the range in which a warning event for that component occurs
(minimum and maximum failure values are specified by the system manufacturer).
• Specify how the system responds when a warning or failure event occurs. Users can configure the
actions that a system takes in response to notifications of warning and failure events. Alternatively,
users who have around-the-clock monitoring can specify that no action is to be taken and rely on
human judgment to select the best action in response to an event.
• Populate all of the user-specifiable values for the system, such as the name of the system, the
phone number of the system's primary user, the depreciation method, whether the system is
leased or owned, and so on.
NOTE:
For both managed systems and network management stations running Microsoft
Windows Server™ 2003, you must configure the SNMP service to accept SNMP packets. See "Configuring the
SNMP Agent for Systems Running Supported Windows Operating Systems" for details.
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