Users Guide

You can configure CMC to send email alerts or SNMP trap alerts for warnings or errors such as temperature, hardware

misconfiguration, power outage, fan speed, and blowers.

What Is New In This Release

This release of CMC for Dell PowerEdge VRTX supports:

• Ivy Bridge support for M520 and M620 servers

• Support Fiber channel PCIe card

• Save BIOS configuration profiles to hard disk drive (HDD) for restoring to the same or a different Chassis

• Multi-Chassis management

• Capability to select chassis configuration properties from the Lead Chassis and apply them to the member Chassis.

• Capability for Group Members to keep their Chassis settings synchronized with the Lead Chassis

• Reset iDRAC without restarting the server module from the CMC

• Display of Chassis Server and component Inventory for Chassis Group

• Quick Deploy of Profiles to servers

• Manage server settings through Profiles —backup, restore, and replicate

• Support all available settings for server profile replication

• Default credential check and display of warning to user through GUI, CLI, and SNMP alert

• Blocking User and IP address after unsuccessful login attempts

• Starting iDRAC using DNS name

• Additional WS-Man support for OMPC

• Updated Linux kernel to version 3.20

Key Features

The CMC features are grouped into management and security features.

Management Features

CMC provides the following management features:

• Redundant CMC environment.

• Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) registration for IPv4 and IPv6.

• Login management and configuration for local users, Active Directory, and LDAP.

• Advanced cooling options such and ECM (Enhanced Cooling Mode) and Fan Offset can be enabled to provide

additional cooling for improved performance.

• Remote system management and monitoring using SNMP, a web interface, KVM, Telnet, or SSH connection.

• Monitoring — Provides access to system information and status of components.

• Access to system event logs — Provides access to the hardware log and chassis log.

• Firmware updates for various chassis components — Enables you to update the firmware for CMC, iDRAC on

servers, chassis infrastructure, and chassis storage.

• Firmware update of server components such as BIOS, network controllers, storage controllers, and so on across

multiple servers in the chassis using Lifecycle Controller.

• Dell OpenManage software integration — Enables you to launch the CMC web interface from Dell OpenManage

Server Administrator or OpenManage Essentials (OME) 1.2.

• CMC alert — Alerts you about potential managed node issues through Remote syslog email message or SNMP trap.