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 33. 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 Monitoring device alerts on page 88 and Using jobs for
device control on page 100.
● 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 147.
● 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 the jobs list on page 100.
Topics:
• Monitor devices by using the OpenManage Enterprise dashboard
• Organize devices into groups
• 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 user privileges. See Role-based
OpenManage Enterprise user privileges on page 14.
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 104 and Organize devices into groups on page 34.
● Manage the device firmware and drivers on page 51
● Managing device alerts
● Discovering devices
● Creating reports
● Managing OpenManage Enterprise appliance settings on page 130
By default, the Hardware Health section displays a Donut chart that indicates the current health of all the devices monitored
by OpenManage Enterprise. Click sections of the Donut chart to view information about devices with respective health statuses.
A Donut in the Alerts section lists the alerts received by devices in the selected device groups. See Monitoring device alerts on
page 88. The total number of alerts in the Donut chart varies based on the setting to whether or not view the unacknowledged
alerts. By default, only the unacknowledged alerts are displayed. See Customize the alert display on page 145. To view alerts
under each category, click the respective color bands. In the Alerts dialog box, the Critical section lists the alerts in critical
status. To view all the generated alerts, click All. The SOURCE NAME column indicates the device that generated the alert.
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