Users Guide

• Directory services integration in OpenManage Enterprise

Topics:

• New in this release

• Other information you may need

• Contacting Dell EMC

• OpenManage Enterprise Advanced license

New in this release

• Discovery and monitoring of PowerVault MD3, PowerVault ME4 devices

• In-band discovery of Windows servers and hypervisors using the OpenSSH protocol

• Support for the latest versions of KVM, ESXi, and Hyper-V

• Support for deployment of IOA template

• Programmatic appliance deployment for VMware ESXi (OVF form factor only) version 6.5 or later

• Faster login with AD accounts

• Support for Autodeployment: Ability to designate an existing template to configure servers and chassis that are yet to be discovered

• Onboarding servers and MX7000 chassis enables both alert reception and sets the community string

• Support for multiple device management URLs (if available)

• Option to support firmware catalog updates automatically or manually

• Availability of the Test Connection option in firmware catalog wizards where external share details are required

• Ability to configure the appliance's session inactivity logout

• Option to hide the previously acknowledged alerts in the console using the alert display settings

• Enhancements:

• Improved error messages for all features and functions, to help troubleshoot failure and error conditions

• Improved filter functionality for better sorting of records on various grids

• Select-all works across pages for grids with the Across all pages checkbox

• Ability to edit chassis templates

• Ability to track users who acknowledge alerts

• Custom report builder enhanced to better handle field selections, reordering, and display

• Enhanced remote script execution to run up to 100 individual RACADM/IPMI, or SSH commands in a batch

• Improvements to Warranty - settings are uniformly reflected in home widget, warranty report, and scoreboard

• Ability to schedule automatic updating of the firmware catalogs

• Firmware compliance report shows only components that have updates in critical or warning status

• Improved robustness and scaling for firmware updates

• Firmware update improvements to included mitigation options

• Descriptive error messages on SMB versions misalignment

• The appliance tracks user-acknowledged alerts enabling a better filtering of the alert log

Other information you may need

In addition to this guide, you can access the following documents that provide more information about OpenManage Enterprise and other