Users Guide

• Dell Networking W-Series Mobility Controllers

• Dell SonicWALL Firewall appliances (global health status is also not available)

• Printers

• PDU

• UPS

NOTE: Due to lack of Service Tag information, the warranty information of these devices is not available.

Creating a discovery and inventory task

1. From OpenManage Essentials, click Manage → Discovery and Inventory → Common Tasks → Add Discovery Range.

The Discover Devices wizard is displayed. The type of wizard displayed is based on the conguration in Settings → Discovery

Settings. See Conguring Discovery Settings.

2. In Discovery Range Conguration:

a. If you want to create a range group, select Save as Group, and provide the Group Name.

b. Enter the IP address/range or the host name and subnet mask, and then click Add.

NOTE: You can add multiple IP addresses, ranges, or host names. You can add multiple host names separated by

a comma delimiter. For example, hostname1, hostname2, hostname3, and so on.

c. To import host names and IP addresses, click Import. You can also import host names and IP addresses included as line

items in .csv le. Using Microsoft Excel, you can create a .csv le containing host names or IP addresses.

NOTE: The discovery range can be exported as a .csv le by right-clicking All Ranges or a given discovery range.

The exported .csv le with the host names and IP addresses can be imported in the same or a dierent

OpenManage Essentials instance.

d. Click Next.

3. If you have selected the Standard Wizard in Discovery Settings — After you have provided at least one IP address, IP range,

host name, or a combination thereof, continue to customize the discovery and inventory options or complete the conguration

using the default options. Clicking

Finish without setting any further congurations immediately runs the discovery and

inventory tasks by using the default SNMP and ICMP protocols. It is recommended that you review and revise your protocol

congurations prior to clicking Finish.

For more information about each listed protocol, click the help icon in the appropriate protocol conguration screen.

NOTE: When discovering ESXi-based servers, to view the guest virtual machines grouped with the host, enable and

congure the WS-Man protocol.

NOTE: By default, SNMP is enabled and values are assigned ICMP parameters.

NOTE: ICMP ping is optional for OpenManage Essentials version 2.4 and later. The ICMP parameters are applied

depending on the selection of Skip ICMP ping during discovery setting.

NOTE: After completing any of the following steps, click either Next to continue or click Finish to complete the

Discovery Range Conguration.

• In ICMP Conguration, to detect devices on the network, edit the ICMP parameters.

NOTE: The ICMP Conguration window is not displayed if Skip ICMP ping during discovery setting is selected

under Settings → Discovery Settings.

• In SNMP Conguration, to discover servers, provide the SNMP parameters. You can select SNMP V1/V2c or SNMP V3 for

discovery. Ensure that the SNMP community string specied in Get Community matches the SNMP community string of

the device or devices you want to discover using SNMP V1/V2c. For discovery and inventory of the devices using SNMP

V3, ensure the devices are congured with same username and password, authentication protocol, and encryption protocol

credentials, that is used when discovering the devices.

NOTE: If the user selects both SNMPv1/v2c and SNMPv3 options, then the discovery of devices using SNMPv3

takes higher priority than discovery of devices using SNMPv1/v2C. The Discovery Range Conguration Details

displays the discovery protocol selected for a particular discovery range.