MIB-Dell-OME

Description: Monitors Dell OpenManage Essentials server inventory and health event data.

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MIB-Dell-OME is Dell's enterprise MIB for Dell OpenManage Essentials (OME), a systems-management console that aggregates hardware and health alerts from Dell servers, storage, and other managed devices. Rather than modeling individual hardware sensors itself, it defines a generic alert/trap structure - device identity, alert message text, and alert severity - used to forward OME's consolidated health events over SNMP to upstream monitoring systems. Because OME itself collects detailed hardware/software status (temperature, power supply, fan, disk, RAID, firmware/BIOS state, process/service health) from managed Dell devices, this MIB's traps effectively carry summarized notifications of those underlying hardware and software faults. It depends heavily on Dell's OpenManage server-management stack and the underlying device MIBs/CIM data OME polls, acting as a forwarding layer rather than a primary data source. It is typically deployed in Dell-centric data centers where OpenManage Essentials serves as the central console, and MIB-Dell-OME SNMP monitoring forwards its alerts via SNMP trap to a broader NMS like SolarWinds or Nagios.

An NMS would receive an omeAlertMessage trap containing omeAlertDevice (the originating Dell server or component) and omeAlertSeverity, and would alert on high-severity messages such as a failed power supply, degraded RAID volume, or fan failure reported upstream by OME. Because the MIB carries free-text omeAlertMessage content rather than granular per-sensor OIDs, monitoring is done by parsing message severity and text patterns rather than polling discrete counters. A spike in critical-severity omeAlertSeverity traps from a single omeAlertDevice would indicate a serious hardware fault on that server needing immediate attention.

Dell OpenManage Essentials (OME) private MIB for alert and device status information.