Has anyone been able to monitor there dell r710 with Home Assistant? Just setting up my R710 server and would like to monitor temps and any critical notifications from the IDRAC6 interface.
I use Nagios to monitor my 710, as well as a ton of other devices.
The nice thing about it being outside of Home Assistant, I can use it to tell me if Home Assistant goes down, or if any of my devices stop responding to pings, or if my MQTT broker isn’t running.
Be nice to have control over system power too, to remotely power on my beefy server via HA
I setup Netdata on my server. Now I can monitor all sensors and notifications. Also if you use IMPI you can see the power, current, fans RPM, etc.
I have see that you can send curl commands to the idrac to set fan speeds and also power down or cycle the server remotely.
Here’s a link on how to adjust the fans: https://www.spxlabs.com/blog/2019/3/16/silence-your-dell-poweredge-server
Just playing around and adding more each day.
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Hi, there … do you happen to have your netdata and HA config (SNMP, IMPI etc) for this? Looking to replicate!
Sure.
Do you have Netdata installed and working? If you have made it that far you view the api of netdata at http://xxx.xxx.xx.x:19999/api/v1/allmetrics?format=json. Just substitute your ip of the server for the x’s.
Once there you can view all sensors.
Here is a snip of my setup for HA. Your sensor names may not be the same:
sensor:
- platform: netdata
host: '192.168.1.60'
port: '19999'
name: DellServer
resources:
system:
data_group: system.cpu
element: system
system.ram:
data_group: system.ram
element: used
system.swap:
data_group: system.swap
element: used
net_drops.eno1:
data_group: net_drops.eno1
element: inbound
disk_space._mnt_data_used:
data_group: disk_space._mnt_data
element: used
ambient.temp:
data_group: ipmi.temperatures_c
element: i14_n5_r2
fan.rpm1:
data_group: ipmi.rpm
element: i48_n36_r2
fan.rpm2:
data_group: ipmi.rpm
element: i49_n37_r2
fan.rpm3:
data_group: ipmi.rpm
element: i50_n38_r2
fan.rpm4:
data_group: ipmi.rpm
element: i51_n39_r2
fan.rpm5:
data_group: ipmi.rpm
element: i52_n40_r2
amps.supply.1:
data_group: ipmi.amps
element: i148_n49_r2
amps.supply.2:
data_group: ipmi.amps
element: i149_n50_r2
volts.supply.1:
data_group: ipmi.volts
element: i150_n51_r2
volts.supply.2:
data_group: ipmi.volts
element: i151_n52_r2
watts:
data_group: ipmi.watts
element: i152_n61_r2
apconline:
data_group: apcupsd_local.online
element: online
apc_charge:
data_group: apcupsd_local.charge
element: battery_charge
apcupsd_load:
data_group: apcupsd_local.load
element: load
apcupsd_battery_voltage:
data_group: apcupsd_local.battery_voltage
element: battery_voltage
core0_temperature_1:
data_group: sensors.coretemp-isa-0001_temperature
element: coretemp-isa-0001_temp2
core0_temperature_2:
data_group: sensors.coretemp-isa-0001_temperature
element: coretemp-isa-0001_temp3
core0_temperature_3:
data_group: sensors.coretemp-isa-0001_temperature
element: coretemp-isa-0001_temp4
core0_temperature_4:
data_group: sensors.coretemp-isa-0001_temperature
element: coretemp-isa-0001_temp10
core0_temperature_5:
data_group: sensors.coretemp-isa-0001_temperature
element: coretemp-isa-0001_temp11
core0_temperature_6:
data_group: sensors.coretemp-isa-0001_temperature
element: coretemp-isa-0001_temp12
core1_temperature_1:
data_group: sensors.coretemp-isa-0000_temperature
element: coretemp-isa-0000_temp2
core1_temperature_2:
data_group: sensors.coretemp-isa-0000_temperature
element: coretemp-isa-0000_temp3
core1_temperature_3:
data_group: sensors.coretemp-isa-0000_temperature
element: coretemp-isa-0000_temp4
core1_temperature_4:
data_group: sensors.coretemp-isa-0000_temperature
element: coretemp-isa-0000_temp10
core1_temperature_5:
data_group: sensors.coretemp-isa-0000_temperature
element: coretemp-isa-0000_temp11
core1_temperature_6:
data_group: sensors.coretemp-isa-0000_temperature
element: coretemp-isa-0000_temp12
hassio_cpu_used:
data_group: cgroup_qemu.slice_101.scope.cpu
element: system
Let me know if you need anything more.
Yes, I have HA working…probably more curious around the SNMP OID’s etc you have used on the iDrac side and/or IPMI that you had to configure.
Cheers
F
Enable SNMP on the Idrac and set a SNMP Community Name:
What OS you run on 710? Is that proxmox then netdata runs on host or VM?
Thanks
Yes Proxmox as the OS. I installed Netdata in the root of the OS. Just ssh into proxmox and run:
bash <(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh)
You can find more information here: Installation guide · Netdata Agent | Learn Netdata
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Appreciate your reply. I was/am little hesitant to install that on base/host and was trying via docker but was not getting all I need. Also still couldn’t figure out how to enable all sensor like CPU temperature etc.
By the way I have r720 and run bare metal Proxmox with OpenMediaVault, Ubuntu server all under different VMs.
Thanks
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Once you have Netdata running add the platform. Netdata - Home Assistant
That way you can pull any sensor that Netdata sees.
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Thanks, I have installed netdata on Proxmox and see data in UI and playing with it find out what I need in HA. I will see how it goes!
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Solution?
If you are purely interested in monitoring the Dell iDRAC without additional software needed to be run on your server (i.e. Netdata) I have created the following code which will work for you, using SNMP sensors.
My only caveat is it is designed for iDRAC7, so some of the “baseoid”'s may need to be changed, but these can easily be discovered using the tool I mention in my post.
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Hello everyone, I followed the instructions and installed Netdata on my R710 (Proxmox 7.1). I also activated IMPI and SNMP. Unfortunately, Netdata does not show me any information for the fans. What am I doing wrong? How do I set Netdata to use IMPI?
I then also tried to install netdata on my R210II with Pfsense 2.6.0, Netdata also shows me a lot here, but no information about the fans.
Can anybody help me further? Thank you in advance.
Hey, you still having the same issue or if you fixed it could you explain how you did it and what went wrong?
I didnt set this up using netdat, did you give @Richard.Huish code a try already?
As always I hope you have a great day!
How did you get the IDRAC IPMI data into netdata? What did you need to install?