Users Guide

Customizing the portals................................................................................................................................................... 39
Displaying additional reports and graphs...........................................................................................................................40
Drilling down charts and reports for more information................................................................................................40
Saving and loading the portal layout..................................................................................................................................41
Updating the portal data................................................................................................................................................... 41
Hiding graphs and reports—Components.........................................................................................................................41
Rearranging or resizing graphs and reports—Components.............................................................................................. 42
Filtering data.................................................................................................................................................................... 42
Using the Search Bar........................................................................................................................................................42
Searching items..........................................................................................................................................................43
Using the search drop-down list.................................................................................................................................43
Search results and the default actions........................................................................................................................43
Map View—Home Portal................................................................................................................................................. 44
Viewing the user information............................................................................................................................................44
Logging in as a dierent user............................................................................................................................................44
Using the Update Available Notication Icon.................................................................................................................... 45
Using the Warranty Scoreboard Notication Icon.............................................................................................................45
4 OpenManage Essentials Home Portal — Reference......................................................46
Dashboard........................................................................................................................................................................46
Home Portal Reports..................................................................................................................................................46
Device by Status.........................................................................................................................................................47
Alerts by Severity....................................................................................................................................................... 47
Discovered Versus Inventoried Devices...................................................................................................................... 47
Task Status.................................................................................................................................................................48
Schedule View..................................................................................................................................................................48
Schedule View Settings..............................................................................................................................................48
Device Warranty Report...................................................................................................................................................49
Map View Interface—Home Portal.................................................................................................................................. 50
5 Discovering and inventorying devices............................................................................ 51
Supported devices, protocols, and features matrix—SNMP, WMI, and WS-Man..............................................................51
Supported devices, protocols, and features matrix—IPMI, CLI, and SSH.........................................................................54
Supported storage devices, protocols, and features matrix.............................................................................................. 56
Setting up and conguring VMware ESXi 5......................................................................................................................57
Legend and denitions..................................................................................................................................................... 58
Using the Discovery and Inventory Portal.........................................................................................................................58
Protocol support matrix for discovery.............................................................................................................................. 59
Protocol support matrix for system update...................................................................................................................... 59
Devices not reporting Service Tag....................................................................................................................................60
Creating a discovery and inventory task...........................................................................................................................60
Changing the default SNMP port................................................................................................................................61
Discovering and inventorying devices by using WS-Man protocol with a root certicate............................................62
Discovering a chassis and its components by using the Guided Wizard............................................................................63
Excluding ranges.............................................................................................................................................................. 64
Viewing congured discovery and inventory ranges......................................................................................................... 64
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