Users Guide

OpenManage Enterprise Home portal
By clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Home, the Home page of OpenManage Enterprise is displayed. On the Home page:
● View the Dashboard to get a live snapshot about the health statuses of devices, and then take actions, where necessary.
See Dashboard.
● View alerts under the critical and warning categories and resolve those. See Managing device alerts.
● The Widgets section lists the rollup warranty, firmware/driver compliance, and configuration compliance statuses of all
devices. For more information about the features under Widgets, see Monitor devices by using the OpenManage Enterprise
dashboard on page 36. The right pane lists the recent alerts and tasks generated by OpenManage Enterprise. To view more
information about an alert or task, click the alert or task title. See Monitor and Manage device alerts on page 111 and Using
jobs for device control on page 122.
● If an updated version of OpenManage Enterprise is available, you are immediately alerted when an update is available. To
update, click Update. For more information about updating the OpenManage Enterprise version, see Check and update the
version of the OpenManage Enterprise and the available plugins on page 160.
● The Recent Alerts section lists the most recent alerts generated by devices that are monitored by OpenManage Enterprise.
Click the alert title to view in-depth information about the alert. See Managing device alerts.
● The Recent Tasks section lists the most recent tasks (jobs) created and run. Click the task title to view in-depth
information about the job. See View job lists on page 122.
NOTE:
If logged in as a device manager, the Home Portal displays information related to the device/device group the DM
owns. Also, the Device Groups dropdown lists only the device groups that the device manager has operational access to.
See Role and scope based access control in OpenManage Enterprise on page 15.
Topics:
• Monitor devices by using the OpenManage Enterprise dashboard
• Donut chart
• Device health statuses
Monitor devices by using the OpenManage Enterprise
dashboard
NOTE:
To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise you must have necessary role-based user privileges and scope-
based operational access to the devices. See Role and scope based access control in OpenManage Enterprise on page 15.
Apart from the first-time login, Dashboard is the first page you see after every subsequent login to OpenManage Enterprise.
To open the Dashboard page from any page of OpenManage Enterprise, click the dashboard symbol in the upper-left corner.
Alternately, click Home.
Using the real-time monitoring data, the dashboard displays the device health, firmware/driver compliance, warranty, alerts, and
other aspects of devices and device groups in your data center environment.
Any available console updates are also displayed on the Dashboard. You can upgrade the OpenManage Enterprise version
immediately, or set OpenManage Enterprise to remind you later.
By default, when you start the application the first time, the Dashboard page appears empty. Add devices to OpenManage
Enterprise so that they can be monitored and displayed on the dashboard. To add devices, see Discovering devices for
monitoring or management on page 39 and Organize devices into groups on page 52.
● Manage the device firmware and drivers on page 72
● Managing device alerts
● Discovering devices
● Creating reports
● Managing OpenManage Enterprise appliance settings on page 140
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