Please find below my working code for Monitoring Dell 7 iDRAC in Home Assistant, used with my Dell PowerEdge R720 server.
Click the link below to visit the page with my code
(For those unfamiliar with github you can use this link to download the latest folder: Download Link)
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I have added sensors for the things I’m interested in monitoring however you can add as many senses as you wish.
I found the documentation from Dell was rather poor and I didn’t really understand what I was doing, so I ended up discovering the Baseoid’s in a comparative manner, running two scans and looking at what value is changed in order to identify things I wanted to monitor. This trial and error approach was helped massively by the free scanning tool Paessler SNMP Tester. Debug your SNMP configuration with SNMP Tester
Installation:
Copy the dell_server folder and all of its contents into your Home Assistant’s packages folder This is often located inside of your /config folder. If you are running Hass.io , use SAMBA to copy the folder over. If you are running Home Assistant Supervised, the packages folder might be located at /usr/share/hassio/homeassistant. It is possible that your packages folder does not exist. If that is the case, create the folder in the proper location, and then copy the dell_server folder and all of its contents inside the newly created packages folder.
Add the link to the Package to your configuration.yaml file, to the “homeassistant:” section. For me, I use:
packages: !include_dir_named packages/
Within my provided packages folder there is currently only one file.
Simply modify as follows:
- Enter the IP address of your server iDRAC interface. If needed, amend the “Port” and “Community”
- Ensure SNMP is enabled on your server iDRAC (See Tutorial iDRAC - Configure SNMP [ Step by step ])
- Add the sensors to your Lovelace interface. E.G.
type: entities
entities:
- entity: sensor.server_power
- entity: sensor.server_inlet_temperature
- entity: sensor.server_exhaust_temperature
- entity: sensor.server_cpu1_temperature
- entity: sensor.server_cpu2_temperature
- entity: sensor.server_fans_speed_avg
title: Dell Server
type: history-graph
entities:
- entity: sensor.server_inlet_temperature
- entity: sensor.server_cpu2_temperature
- entity: sensor.server_cpu1_temperature
- entity: sensor.server_exhaust_temperature
hours_to_show: 24
refresh_interval: 0
title: Thermals 24 Hours
type: history-graph
entities:
- entity: sensor.server_power
- entity: sensor.dell_server_energy
hours_to_show: 24
refresh_interval: 0
title: Power 24 Hours
- If desired add the Integration (Riemann sum integral) cumulative energy sensor to the energy dashboard.
That should be everything.
UPDATE 2023
- Make sure you have the SNMP Agent enabled on the Dell iDrac 7 settings (Overview, iDrac Settings, Network, Service tab), ensure the Home Assistant Config “community” name matches
whatever you have in the iDRAC “SNMP Community Name”, i.e. “public”.
- See these lists for what is a apparent fully inventory of all the sensors:
https://mibs.observium.org/mib/IDRAC-MIB/
https://mibs.observium.org/mib/IDRAC-MIB-SMIv2/
