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Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Version 3.6 User's Guide
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About Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise
- New in this release
- Other information you may need
- Contacting Dell EMC
- OpenManage Enterprise Advanced license
  - License-based features in OpenManage Enterprise
Security features in OpenManage Enterprise
- OpenManage Enterprise user role types
- Role and scope based access control in OpenManage Enterprise
Install OpenManage Enterprise
- Installation prerequisites and minimum requirements
  - Minimum recommended hardware
  - Minimum system requirements for deploying OpenManage Enterprise
- Deploy OpenManage Enterprise on VMware vSphere
- Deploy OpenManage Enterprise on Hyper-V 2012 R2 and earlier host
- Deploy OpenManage Enterprise on Hyper-V 2016 host
- Deploy OpenManage Enterprise on Hyper-V 2019 host
- Deploy OpenManage Enterprise by using Kernel-based Virtual Machine
- Deploy OpenManage Enterprise programmatically
Get started with OpenManage Enterprise
- Log in to OpenManage Enterprise
- Configure OpenManage Enterprise by using Text User Interface
- Configure OpenManage Enterprise
- Recommended scalability and performance settings for optimal usage of OpenManage Enterprise
- Supported protocols and ports in OpenManage Enterprise
- Use case links for the supported protocols and ports in OpenManage Enterprise
OpenManage Enterprise Graphical User Interface overview
OpenManage Enterprise Home portal
- Monitor devices by using the OpenManage Enterprise dashboard
- Donut chart
- Device health statuses
Discovering devices for monitoring or management
- Discover servers automatically by using the server-initiated discovery feature
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- Create a device discovery job
  - Onboarding devices
- Protocol support matrix for discovering devices
- View device discovery job details
- Edit a device discovery job
- Run a device discovery job
- Stop a device discovery job
- Specify multiple devices by importing data from the .csv file
- Global exclusion of ranges
- Specify discovery mode for creating a server discovery job
- Create customized device discovery job protocol for servers –Additional settings for discovery protocols
- Specify discovery mode for creating a chassis discovery job
- Create customized device discovery job protocol for Chassis – Additional settings for discovery protocols
- Specify discovery mode for creating a Dell storage discovery job
- Specify discovery mode for creating a network switch discovery job
- Create customized device discovery job protocol HTTPS storage devices –Additional settings for discovery protocols
- Create customized device discovery job protocol for SNMP devices
- Specify discovery mode for creating a MULTIPLE protocol discovery job
- Delete a device discovery job
Manage devices and device groups
- Organize devices into groups
- All Devices page - devices list
- All Devices page — device list actions
- View and configure individual devices
Managing device inventory
- Create an inventory job
- Run an inventory job now
- Stop an inventory job
- Delete an inventory job
- Edit an inventory schedule job
Manage the device firmware and drivers
- Manage firmware and driver Catalogs
- Create a firmware/driver baseline
- Delete configuration compliance baselines
- Edit a baseline
- Check the compliance of a device firmware and driver
  - View the baseline compliance report
  - Update firmware and/or drivers using the baseline compliance report
Manage device deployment templates
- Create a deployment template from a reference device
- Create a deployment template by importing a template file
- View a deployment template information
- Edit a server deployment template
- Edit a chassis deployment template
- Edit IOA deployment template
- Edit network properties of a deployment template
- Deploy device deployment templates
- Deploy IOA deployment templates
- Clone deployment templates
- Auto deployment of configuration on yet-to-be-discovered servers or chassis
- Create auto deployment targets
- Delete auto deployment targets
- Export auto deployment target details to different formats
- Overview of stateless deployment
  - Manage identity pools—Stateless deployment
  - Create Identity Pool - Pool Information
- Define networks
  - Network types
- Edit or delete a configured network
- Export VLAN definitions
- Import network definitions
Manage Profiles
- Create profiles
- View Profile details
- Profiles — view network
- Edit a profile
- Assign a Profile
- Unassign profiles
- Redeploy profiles
- Migrate a Profile
- Delete Profiles
- Export Profile(s) data as HTML, CSV, or PDF
Managing the device configuration compliance
- Manage compliance templates
- Create a configuration compliance baseline
- Edit a configuration compliance baseline
- Delete configuration compliance baselines
- Refresh compliance of the configuration compliance baselines
- Remediate noncompliant devices
  - Export the Compliance Baseline report
- Remove a configuration compliance baseline
Monitor and Manage device alerts
- View alert logs
  - Manage alert logs
- Alert policies
  - Configure and manage alert policies
  - Automatic refresh of MX7000 chassis on insertion and removal sleds
- Alert definitions
Monitor audit logs
- Forward audit logs to remote Syslog servers
Using jobs for device control
- View job lists
  - Jobs status and Jobs type description
  - OpenManage Enterprise default jobs and schedule
- View an individual job information
- Create a job to turn device LEDs
- Create a job for managing power devices
- Create a Remote command job for managing devices
- Create a job to change the virtual console plugin type
- Select target devices and device groups
- Manage jobs
Manage the device warranty
- View and renew device warranty
Reports
- Run reports
- Run and email reports
- Edit reports
- Copy reports
- Delete reports
- Creating reports
  - Select query criteria when creating reports
- Export selected reports
Managing MIB files
- Import MIB files
- Edit MIB traps
- Remove MIB files
- Resolve MIB types
- Download an OpenManage Enterprise MIB file
Managing OpenManage Enterprise appliance settings
- Configure OpenManage Enterprise network settings
- Manage OpenManage Enterprise users
- Ending user sessions
- Directory services integration in OpenManage Enterprise
- OpenManage Enterprise login using OpenID Connect providers
- Security Certificates
  - Generate and download the certificate signing request
  - Assigning a webserver certificate to OpenManage Enterprise using the Microsoft Certificate Services
- Set the login security properties
- Manage Console preferences
- Customize the alert display
- Configure SMTP, SNMP, and Syslog alerts
- Manage incoming alerts
  - Set SNMP Credentials
- Manage warranty settings
- Check and update the version of the OpenManage Enterprise and the available plugins
- Execute remote commands and scripts
- OpenManage Mobile settings
Other references and field descriptions
- Schedule Reference
- Firmware baseline field definitions
- Schedule job field definitions
- Alert categories after EEMI relocation
- Token substitution in remote scripts and alert policy
- Field service debug workflow
- Unblock the FSD capability
- Install or grant a signed FSD DAT.ini file
- Invoke FSD
- Disable FSD
- Catalog Management field definitions
- Firmware/driver compliance baseline reports— devices with 'Unknown' compliance status
- Generic naming convention for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers

2. Click Refresh Inventory to initiate an Inventory job.

The status of the inventory job can be viewed on the Inventory page (OpenManage Enterprise > Monitor > Inventory) .

Select the Inventory job and click on View Details to view the collected inventory of selected device. For more information

about viewing the refreshed inventory data, see View and configure individual devices on page 64. To download a device

inventory, see Export the single device inventory on page 63.

Related information

Organize devices into groups on page 52

68 Manage devices and device groups