DCIM Questions

[DCIM_Support]

Hi

Hello Support

I am installing and configuring DCIM at customer site, customer has raised following question related to functionality of DCIM.

1-     Customer has installed many switches & servers in DC and want to get alert if any NIC (network card)      

          down. Is it possible to monitor/real time NIC card status through DCIM module?

2-     Can we access and map storages & switches in ITO?

3-     Customer wants to know the real time port status of any server or switches in dcim?

4-      When we run ITO discovery for IBM x3850 (IPMI & SNMP) i am getting error which is attached, please help how to resolve this issue.

BR

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[DCIM_Support]

Your customer probably should've asked these questions before buying a DCIM tool.

1. Alerting on downed interfaces is not in scope of DCO. It is in scope of a network monitoring tool.
2. You can map the physical connections between switches and servers, as well as SAN fabric in DCO. There is some connectivity with UCS fabric interconnects, but not at the level your customer seems to want. Again, network monitoring software.
3. Customer will be disappointed.
4. I had very little success bringing in straight IPMI into IT Optimize. Hopefully someone else can step in on that one.

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[DCIM_Support]

Thanks for your response, can anyone answer of my last point? 

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[DCIM_Support]

Hi John (unknown.007 )

I would also like to add:

2. IT Optimize currently supports server and blade chassis discovery. As far as I know, other items like switches and possibly storage devices are on the road-map.

4. IPMI is the only protocol used by ITO which is chipset specific, that is a discovery using the server's baseboard management controller (on the motherboard). So its unaware of OS specific information and in most cases only knows very basic server information like serial number.

Kind regards

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[DCIM_Support]

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