About the Streamvault Maintenance plugin

2023-01-26Last updated

The Streamvault™ Maintenance plugin is used to monitor the health of your Streamvault appliances and ensure you receive notifications when problems occur.

The Streamvault Maintenance plugin includes the following components:
  • Streamvault role: Plugin role used to run either the hardware monitor or manager entity. One role per Streamvault appliance you need to monitor is required.
  • 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.
The plugin entity configurations consist of the following settings:
  • Alert configurations: used to define the types of Events, level of Severity, and types of Notification that affect alerts addressing the health status' 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.
  • iDRAC integration: used to exercise more precise control over credential management. This feature can be found in the Management tab of the plugin.
    Important:
    • iDRAC firmware must be at version 6.0 or later.
    • The Streamvault Maintenance plugin accesses health data using out-of-band communication with iDRAC. This means that there must be a network connection between the iDRAC dedicated port and at least one LAN port if port sharing is not 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.
    • Configuration using iDRAC is not relevant for most users. For more information, contact the Streamvault product team.
    • Guide applicable for Streamvault Maintenance plugin 1.0.