Users Guide

OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release Home

portal

By clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Home, the Home page of OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release 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 devices whose license warranty has expired or is about to expire, and the firmware version of devices that

are deviating from the baseline and compliance. For more information about the features under Widgets, see Monitoring devices by

using the OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release dashboard. The right pane lists the recent alerts and tasks generated by

OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release. To view more information about an alert or task, click the alert or task title. See Monitoring

device alerts and Using jobs for device control.

• If an updated version of OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release is available, you are alerted to update the version immediately by

clicking Update Now. For more information about updating the OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release version, see Checking and

updating the OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release version.

• The Recent Alerts section lists the most recent alerts generated by devices that are monitored by OpenManage Enterprise–Tech

Release. 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 Viewing the jobs list.

Topics:

• Monitoring devices by using the OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release dashboard

• Organizing devices into groups

• Donut chart

• Device health statuses

Monitoring devices by using the OpenManage

Enterprise–Tech Release dashboard

NOTE:

To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release, you must have necessary user privileges. See

Role-based OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release user privileges.

Apart from the first-time login, Dashboard is the first page you see after every subsequent login to OpenManage Enterprise–Tech

Release. To open the Dashboard page from any page of OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release, 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 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–Tech Release version immediately, or set OpenManage

Enterprise–Tech Release to remind you later. By default, when you start the application the first time, the Dashboard page appears empty.

Add devices to OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release so they can be monitored and displayed on the dashboard. To add devices, see

Organizing devices into groups and Discovering devices for monitoring or management.

• Managing the device firmware

• Managing device alerts

• Discovering devices

• Creating reports

• Managing OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release appliance settings

By default, the Hardware Health section displays a Donut chart that indicates the current health of all the devices monitored by

OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release. 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. To

view alerts under each category, click the respective color bands.

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