Owner's Manual

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Proactive Failover
Dell Server Management pack for SCOM monitors heath of Dell server. It
raises critical, warning, or both events in SCOM by interacting with Dell
OpenManage. If a critical failure event like OMSA Temperature sensor
detected a failure value occurs on a server, it triggers the Proactive Failover
workflow. The Workflow retargets all the Workloads from the server which
triggered the failure event. This is accomplished by combining the
functionality of the SCOM and AIM. For more information, see
Workflow –
Proactive Failover
.
Prerequisites
The pre-requisite for the Proactive Failover workflow are:
• OpenManage version 6.1 or later installed on all servers in the AIM
environment
• AIM version 3.4.1 is installed and Opalis has established a connection with
the AIM controller. For more information, see Configuring Dell
Integration Pack Activities.
• SCOM 2007 R2 is installed and Opalis has established a connection with
SCOM.
• The workload images are prepared to operate in AIM environment. For
more information, see
Dell Advanced Infrastructure Manager User’s Guide
on
support.dell.com\manuals .
• The servers under the AIM environment are managed by SCOM and
Dell Server Management packs are imported.
• Workloads, both Personas and VMRacks, are assigned to server pools and
at least one server is available for re-targeting.
• The Proactive Failover Workflow uses the Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI) to query the Service Tag (on a Dell system) or
Serial Number of the server, therefore the Server which generates the alert
must have access to WMI for the Opalis User.
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