Setup Guide

Table 3. IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus component requirements
Component Requirement Purpose
Probes Congure the MTTrapd Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) probe and
the Netcool/OMNIbus Knowledge Library
(NcKL).
To receive and process the SNMP traps sent
by Dell EMC devices.
ObjectServer Install and congure the confpack utility. To import Dell EMC integration automation
triggers, tools, menus, and conversion
classes.
Desktop Make sure that the SNMP/WSMan
communication between the desktop and
Dell EMC devices exists.
To retrieve the required information from Dell
EMC devices.
Web GUI
Install and congure the OMNIbus web GUI
and WAAPI.
Make sure that the SNMP/WSMan
communication channel between the web
GUI server and the managed Dell EMC
systems exists.
To support Dell EMC tools available for Dell
EMC OpenManage Connection.
To retrieve the required information from Dell
EMC devices.
Supported Operating Systems for managed systems
The following table lists the operating systems supported on the supported Dell EMC devices:
Table 4. Supported operating systems for Dell EMC Workstations
Windows Server SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL)
Windows Server 2012 R2 (Datacenter,
Foundation, Essentials, and Standard
editions)
SLES 12 SP3 64-bit RHEL 7.5 64-bit
Windows 8.1 Professional 64 bit SLES 11 SP4 RHEL 7.4 64-bit
Windows 7 Professional 32-bit and 64-bit RHEL 6.10 64-bit
RHEL 6.9 64-bit
Table 5. Supported operating systems for Dell EMC Servers
VMware vSphere ESXi Windows Server SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
(SLES)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Server (RHEL)
ESXi 6.7 Windows 2019 SLES 15 64-bit RHEL 7.5 64-bit
ESXi 6.5 U1 Windows 2016 SLES 12 SP3 64-bit) RHEL 7.4 64-bit
ESXi 6.0 U3 Windows Server 2012 R2
(Datacenter, Foundation,
Essentials, and Standard
editions)
SLES 11 SP4 RHEL 6.10 64-bit
RHEL 6.9 64-bit
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