The Streamvault™ Maintenance plugin is used to monitor the health of your Streamvault™ appliances and ensure you receive notifications when problems occur.
NOTE: This guide applies to the Streamvault Maintenance plugin 2.0.
The Streamvault Maintenance plugin includes the following components:
- Streamvault role
- The Streamvault plugin role is used to run either the hardware monitor or manager entity. One role is required for each Streamvault appliance that you need to monitor.
- Streamvault™ hardware monitor
- The Streamvault™ hardware monitor entity is used to monitor the health of your Streamvault™ appliances and ensure you receive notifications when problems occur. One Streamvault™ hardware monitor per Streamvault™ appliance is required.
- Streamvault™ manager
- The Streamvault™ manager entity is used to control the alert configurations for a group of Streamvault™ Agent entities. Only one Streamvault™ manager is allowed per system.
- Streamvault™ manager
- Streamvault™ hardware is a report task in Security Center that you can use to view a list of health issues affecting your Streamvault™ appliances.
The plugin entity configurations consist of the following settings:
- Alert configurations
- Used to define the types of Events, Severity levels, and Notification types that affect alerts addressing the health statuses of your Streamvault servers.
- Email recipients
- Used to select which users and user groups receive email notifications.
- Remote management credentials
- Used to control the creation of user profiles in iDRAC.
- Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) integration
- For Streamvault models that support iDRAC. This feature is used to exercise more
precise control over credential management. It can be found on the
Management tab of the Streamvault manager entity.For more information about iDRAC, see https://www.dell.com/en-us/lp/dt/open-manage-idrac.
- For systems with iDRAC-enabled servers, iDRAC firmware must be at version 6.0 or later.
- For iDRAC-supported devices, the Streamvault Maintenance plugin
accesses health data using an internal connection, as long as Dell's iDRAC
Service Module (iSM) software is installed. iSM is installed by default on
models that support iDRAC.
If iSM isn't available, the plugin uses out-of-band communication with iDRAC. In this case, a network connection must exist between the iDRAC dedicated port and at least one LAN port if port sharing isn’t used. The dedicated iDRAC port is disabled by default. For more information, refer to the following: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-ca/000177212/dell-poweredge-how-to-configure-the-idrac9-and-the-lifecycle-controller-network-ip.