Hello,   I can't really speak to SNMP, all the hardware monitoring I've done has been in the iDRAC interface. If the iDRAC is reporting everything as healthy, I'd be more inclined to think that there was some unexpected behavior taking place. Updating iDRAC firmware might be worthwhile. Flashing it would flash both the iDRAC and LIfecycle controller, and is a very big part of SNMP alerting.
Hi, According to iDrac, the PowerEdge T440 I have is all well and fine. All components show a green tick. However, when querying with SNMP, the 'cooling' component reports status "1" (other). Background: We monitor all our servers and infrastructure using PRTG, which in this example uses SNMP directly to iDrac. The PRTG sensor is setup, but reporting result "1". The possible values for OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.5.4.200.10.1.44.1 are other(1), unknown(2), ok(3), nonCritical(4), critical(5), nonRecoverable(6) We have other Dell PowerEdge servers deployed (albeit none are T440's), and the monitoring in PRTG of these servers matches what we see in iDrac, so I can't work out why this discrepancy. The T440 BIOS is up to date. There is a single fan in the chassis, which is reporting as operational and I can view the fan RPM, which fluctuates slightly when I refresh the page. I have also confirmed locally that the fan is spinning. PS: The server resides in Hong Kong (purchased in HK) but is supported from the UK. I spoke with a UK technician who said they can only go by what iDrac is reported, but did offer to replace the fan regardless of it working correctly. Has anyone else seen an issue like this? I could ignore the monitoring of the fan, but this seems a likely component to fail, so would prefer to keep monitoring it. Thanks in advance.
T440 Discrepancy: iDrac OK vs SNMP 'other'