Users Guide
Protocol / Mechanism Simple Network
Management
Protocol (SNMP)
Windows
Management
Instrumentation
(WMI)
Web Services-
Management (WS-
Man)
REpresentational State
Transfer (REST)
Administrator
console
• RAC
VMware ESXi
Traps/alerts
Not supported
Discovery
Correlation
Classication
Hardware inventory
Software inventory
Virtual machine
information
Virtual host product
information
Monitoring
(OpenManage
Server Administrator
health only)
Application launch—
RAC
Not supported
Servers without
OpenManage
Server
Administrator
installed
Windows/
Hyper‑V
Not supported Discovery
Correlation
Classication
Hardware inventory
Application launch
• Remote desktop
Not supported Not supported
Linux/VMware
ESX
Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
VMware ESXi
Not supported Not supported Discovery
Correlation
Classication
Hardware inventory
(no storage
inventory)
Application launch
Not supported
iDRAC / DRAC / BMC
Discovery
Correlation
Classication
Monitoring Traps/
Platform Event Traps
(PET)
Application launch
• RAC
• Console
Not supported Discovery
Correlation
Classication
Monitoring Traps/
Platform Event Traps
(PET)
Hardware inventory
System update
Not supported
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