Users Guide

Manage devices and device groups
By clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Devices you can view and manage the device groups and devices discovered in
OpenManage Enterprise. If you are logged in as a device manager, only the device groups and its associated trees that are in
your scope would be available for viewing and management.
The left pane displays the device groups as follows:
● All Devices — The top-level root group containing all groups.
● System groups — Default groups created by OpenManage Enterprise when shipped.
● Custom groups — Groups created by users such as administrators and device managers. you can create 'query' groups or
'static' groups under custom groups.
● Plugin groups — Groups created by plugins.
You can create child groups under these parent groups. For more information see Device Groups.
On top of the working pane, donut charts display the health state and alerts of all devices by default. However, when a group is
selected on the left pane these donut charts would display the health state and alerts of the group that is selected. Additionally,
if a plugin is installed, a third donut chart might display the data of the installed plugin. For more information about Donut chart,
see Donut chart.
The table after the Donut chart lists the devices and displays their health state, power state, name, IP address and identifier. By
default all the devices are listed, however when a group is selected in the left pane only the devices of that group are displayed.
For more information about the device list, see Device list.
The Advanced Filters can be used to further narrow down the devices displayed in the Device List based on their Health State,
Power State, Connection status, Name, IP Address, Identifier, Device type, Managed state, etc.
When you select a device in the list, the right pane displays the preview about the selected devices. When multiple devices
are selected, the preview about the last selected device is displayed. Under Quick Actions, the management links that are
correlated to the respective device are listed. To clear selections, click Clear Selection.
NOTE:
● After you upgrade OpenManage Enterprise to the latest version, the devices list will be updated after the discovery jobs
are rerun.
● You can select a maximum of 25 devices per page and navigate the pages to select more devices and perform tasks.
● Some of the device-related tasks that you can perform on the All Devices page—such as firmware update, inventory
refreshing, status refreshing, server control actions—can also be performed on individual devices from the respective
Device Details page.
Topics:
• Organize devices into groups
• Devices list
• All Devices page — device list actions
• View and configure individual devices
Organize devices into groups
In a data center, for effective and quick device management, you can:
● Group the devices. For example, you can group devices based on functions, OSs, user profiles, location, jobs run, and then
run queries to manage devices.
● Filter the device-related data while managing devices, updating firmware, discovering devices, and managing alert policies
and reports.
● You can manage the properties of a device in a group. See View and configure individual devices on page 64.
OpenManage Enterprise provides a built-in report to get an overview of the OpenManage Enterprise monitored devices. Click
OpenManage Enterprise > Monitor > Reports > Devices Overview Report. Click Run. See Run reports on page 133.
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