Simplified discovery of Dell EMC PowerEdge modular infrastructure (MX7000) in Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials This Dell technical white paper provides information about discovering a Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 chassis and its associated blades by using the Guided Discovery wizard in OpenManage Essentials. Abstract This Dell technical white paper provides information about discovering a Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000 chassis and its associated blades by using the Guided Discovery wizard.
Revisions Revisions Date Description November 2018 Initial release Acknowledgements This technical white paper is produced by the following members of the Dell EMC Server Engineering team: Author: Sreehari Tummala Support: Sheshadri PR Rao (InfoDev) Other: The information in this publication is provided “as is.” Dell Inc.
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Executive summary Executive summary Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials version 2.5 introduces a new MX chassis discovery feature which simplifies the discovery process for Dell PowerEdge modular infrastructure (MX7000). This technical white paper describes the use of MX chassis discovery feature which helps in the discovery and inventory of chassis along with its blade servers located within the chassis by using only the IP address of the chassis.
Technical support and resources 1 Introduction The complete MX chassis discovery feature introduced in OpenManage Essentials version 2.5 is enabled with the help of the new MX Chassis Discovery - All Components filter in the Guided Discovery wizard. With the help of a complete MX chassis discovery feature, you can discover all the blade servers installed in the same chassis by only discovering the MX7000 chassis by using its IP address. 1.
Executive summary 2 Discover complete MX chassis in OpenManage Essentials 2.1 Discover the MX chassis and its iDRAC components 1. Click Manage → Discovery and Inventory. The Discovery and Inventory Portal is displayed. 2. Under Common Tasks, click Add Discovery Range. The Discovery Range Configuration page is displayed. 3. Select the Save as Group option and enter a name for the group in the appropriate field.
Technical support and resources Select the device types for determining protocols 7. On the ICMP Configuration page, if required, change the Timeout and Retries values based on your preference.
Executive summary Configure the ICMP properties for discovering MX7000 chassis in OpenManage Essentials 8. Click Next. The REST Configuration page is displayed. 9. Enter the REST credentials of the MX chassis.
Technical support and resources REST Configuration Page 10. Click Next. The WS-Man Configuration page is displayed. 11. Enter the WS-Man credentials of iDRACs of blade servers installed on the MX chassis.
Executive summary Specify WS-Man credentials for discovering MX7000 chassis in OpenManage Enterprise 12. Click Next.
Technical support and resources Summary Page 13. Click Finish. A discovery job for discovering the MX chassis and its components (blade servers) is initiated. During the discovery and inventory of the chassis, all the blade servers are added as part of the discovery and inventory. Note—Providing IP address range on the Discovery Configuration page (see Figure 1) is also supported for complete chassis discovery. For example, 192.168.10.* or 192.168.1.1-30.
Executive summary 2.2 Auto-discovered devices associated to MX chassis After the discovery and inventory cycle of the MX chassis and blade servers is complete, select the Discovery Range Group to view the complete details of the devices discovered in the range. For example, MX chassis and auto-discovered devices associated to the MX chassis (blade servers) as shown in 0.
Technical support and resources Click Perform Status Polling Now in the Discovery and Inventory portal. See Figure 8. Click Refresh Status in the device tree. See Figure 9. Performing status poll of MX chassis and all auto discovered devices associated to the MX chassis by using the MX chassis discovery range right-click option in the Discovery and Inventory portal.
Executive summary from the MX chassis by using the Discovery and Inventory Now or Refresh Inventory option as described in the Discovery, inventory, and status operations section. In addition to this, the removed blade server will be de-associated from the MX chassis group and associated to All Ranges in the Discovery Ranges section of the Discovery and Inventory page. 2.
Technical support and resources 3 Troubleshoot the MX7000 discovery issues in OpenManage Enterprise If the complete chassis discovery feature does not successfully auto-discover the required devices associated to the MX chassis, you may find more details in Application Logs in the Logs portal. As shown in Figure 10, details are included in the Application Logs if OpenManage Essentials finds an invalid IP address, the IP address is in exclusion list, and others.
Executive summary Answer—It is recommended that you either discover each blade server individually or discover the chassis and its components by using the MX Chassis Discovery – All Components filter of the Guided Wizard. If you had discovered a few blade servers prior to discovering the chassis using the MX Chassis Discovery – All Components filter of the Guided Wizard, do the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Edit the chassis discovery range group. Select the MX Chassis Discovery – All Components filter.
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