About the Streamvault Maintenance plugin
The Streamvault™ Maintenance plugin is used to monitor the health of your Streamvault™ appliances and ensure you receive notifications when problems occur.
- Streamvault role: Plugin role 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: Entity used to define the alert configurations for each Streamvault appliance.
- Streamvault™ manager: Entity used to bulk-control configurations for a group of Streamvault appliances. Only one Streamvault manager instance can be created.
- Streamvault™ hardware: Report task in Security Center used to view a list of health issues affecting your Streamvault appliances.
- 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): used to exercise more precise control over credential
management. This feature can be found on the Management tab of
the plugin.
For more information about iDRAC, see https://www.dell.com/en-us/lp/dt/open-manage-idrac.
Important:- 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.