Users Guide

Protocol / Mechanism Simple Network
Management
Protocol (SNMP)
Windows
Management
Instrumentation
(WMI)
Web Services-
Management (WS-
Man)
REpresentational State
Transfer (REST)
Classication
Application launch
Traps/alerts
Health
Switch role
VxFlex Ready Nodes
Discovery
Correlation
Classication
Monitoring Traps/
Platform Event Traps
(PET)
Application launch—
VxFlex Ready Node
Series Support
Not supported Discovery
Correlation
Classication
Monitoring Traps/
Platform Event Traps
(PET)
Hardware inventory
System update
Application launch—
VxFlex Ready Node
Series Support
Not supported
NOTE: For full functionality of chassis support in OpenManage Essentials, the chassis and the associated devices must
be discovered using the appropriate protocols.
NOTE: OpenManage Essentials supports in-band (OMSA) and out-of-band (iDRAC) discovery of the following
PowerEdge C-Series servers only: PowerEdge C4130, PowerEdge C6320, PowerEdge C6320p, and PowerEdge C6420.
NOTE: OpenManage Essentials supports discovery of Dell Precision Rack 7910 and 7920 clients with WMI protocol
similar to the discovery of other client devices. If the Dell Precision Rack 7910 and 7920 clients are discovered using
iDRAC (out-of-band discovery), then these devices are classied as Servers under Manage → Devices → All Devices →
RAC.
NOTE: You can also perform discovery and inventory of a server out-of-band (iDRAC) using the credentials of the iDRAC
user account that has Read Only privileges. However, you cannot perform operations that require elevated privileges
such as system update, device conguration deployment, and so on.
Supported devices, protocols, and features matrix—IPMI, CLI, and
SSH
NOTE: For description of the features that are listed in the following table, see Legend and Denitions.
Table 12. Supported devices, protocols (IPMI, CLI, SSH), and features matrix
Protocol / Mechanism Intelligent Platform
Management Interface
(IPMI)
Command Line
Interface (CLI)a
Secure Shell (SSH)
Servers with
OpenManage Server
Administrator
installed
Windows /Hyper-V Not supported OpenManage Server
Administrator CLI
Deploy OpenManage
Server Administrator
Server Updates
• BIOS
• Firmware
Not supported
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