Monitoring CIMC Reachability

To monitor CIMC reachability, log on to the CEE CLI Ops Center. You can enable CIMC, define a cluster, and add configuration for server IP and credentials using the commands in the Configuring CIMC section.

When CIMC is not reachable, the value for the cimc_server_not_reachable_alert metric will be set to 1 and exposed for Prometheus. These values can be tracked in the Grafana dashboard.

After sometime, the server-not-reachable-alert alert will be created in CEE. If the CIMC becomes reachable, the exposed metric will be deleted from the Prometheus client to prevent it from firing any longer, and the alert will be moved to history.