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Dell EMC Technical White Paper
Contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
1 Overview ....................................................................................................................................................................... 4
2 PowerShell Extension .................................................................................................................................................. 5
2.1 Authentication ..................................................................................................................................................... 5
2.2 Discovery or inventory task control through CLI syntax ..................................................................................... 5
2.3 Discovery configuration profile template ............................................................................................................ 5
2.4 Protocol credentials ............................................................................................................................................ 7
2.5 Default action ...................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.6 Range list template ............................................................................................................................................. 7
2.7 Access the OpenManage Essentials CLI ........................................................................................................... 7
2.8 View CLI Help of OpenManage Essentials ........................................................................................................ 8
3 Discovery and inventory commands ............................................................................................................................ 9
3.1 Create discovery range ...................................................................................................................................... 9
3.2 Optional Flags ..................................................................................................................................................... 9
3.3 Input parameters............................................................................................................................................... 10
3.4 Remove discovery range .................................................................................................................................. 10
3.5 Create discovery range group .......................................................................................................................... 11
3.6 Remove discovery range group ........................................................................................................................ 11
3.7 Enable discovery range or discovery range group ........................................................................................... 12
3.8 Disable discovery range or discovery range group .......................................................................................... 12
3.9 Create discovery exclude range ....................................................................................................................... 13
3.10 Remove discovery exclude range .................................................................................................................... 13
3.11 Run a discovery range or group: discovery, inventory, discovery & inventory, or status polling ..................... 14
3.12 Get status execution progress of a discovery range ........................................................................................ 14
4 Device group management ........................................................................................................................................ 16
4.1 Device list details .............................................................................................................................................. 16
4.2 Create custom device group ............................................................................................................................. 16
4.3 Add devices to a custom group ........................................................................................................................ 17
4.4 Remove devices from custom group ................................................................................................................ 18
4.5 Listing device membership ............................................................................................................................... 18
4.6 Deleting group .................................................................................................................................................. 19
5 Known issues ............................................................................................................................................................. 20
A Technical support and resources ............................................................................................................................... 21