Users Guide
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About OpenManage Essentials
OpenManage Essentials is a hardware management application that provides a comprehensive view of systems, devices, and
components in the enterprise’s network. With OpenManage Essentials, a web-based and one‑to‑many systems management
application for systems and other devices, you can:
• Discover and inventory systems
• Monitor the health of systems
• View and manage system alerts
• Perform system updates and remote tasks
• View hardware inventory and compliance reports
• Deploy or reprovision a server, chassis, or an I/O Aggregator (IOA)
• Manage the conguration baseline of a server or chassis
• Manage the virtual I/O identity of a server
New in this release
• Support for the following features of a MX7000 chassis—as a standalone chassis and as a lead chassis in a Multi-Chassis
Management (MCM) group:
– Discovery, inventory, monitoring, and status polling
– Alerts recognition and traps classication
– System updates
– Conguration template creation and deployment
– Conguration compliance and remediation
– Conguring VLANs on MX7000 chassis by using the blade server template deployment feature
• Support for the following devices:
– Latest 14th generation PowerEdge servers including new blade servers of MX7000 chassis.
– PowerEdge MX7000 modular enclosure
– VxFlex Ready Nodes
For a complete list of supported device models, see the Dell EMC OpenManage Essentials Support Matrix at Dell.com/
OpenManageManuals.
• Enhancement:
– Enhanced view to display catalog baselines associated to the custom device groups.
Other information you may need
Table 1. Other information you may need
Document Description Availability
Dell EMC OpenManage
Essentials Support Matrix
Lists the devices that are supported by
OpenManage Essentials.
1. Visit Dell.com/OpenManageManuals.
2. Click OpenManage Essentials, and select
the required version of OpenManage
Essentials.
3. Click Manuals & documents to access
these documents.
Dell EMC OpenManage
Essentials Readme
Provides information about known issues and
workarounds in OpenManage Essentials.
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