Setup Guide

• Ensure that Dell Device Helper is installed.

• Ensure that there is WS-MAN (WS-Management) connectivity between the Management Server and the Managed Node.

Chassis Monitoring requirements

• For slot discovery and correlation to work; ensure that you have Dell Device Helper utility installed.

• To monitor Chassis controller, IO Module, IO Module Group, Power Supply, and Power Supply Group components; enable RACADM

utility. RACADM utility is now required only to monitor the health of Chassis controller, IO Module, IO Module Group, Power Supply, and

Power Supply Group components.

• To monitor the health of Chassis devices, associate the community string Run As account with the SNMP Monitoring Account with

the target as Dell Modular Chassis class or respective Chassis object (if you have dierent Run As accounts for dierent Chassis

devices).

• To discover Chassis Slots and Chassis Slot Summary for CMC; create Run As Accounts and associate it to the proles — Dell CMC

Login Account Run As Proles. Also, enable the CMC Slot Discovery from the OpsMgr console. For more information, see Conguring

Chassis Management Controller feature for Correlating Server Modules with Chassis Slot Summary.

• To perform Chassis Detailed monitoring; create Run As Accounts with WS-MAN credentials required for accessing the Dell CMCs, and

associate it to the proles — Dell CMC Login Account Run As Proles.

NOTE:

• If you are using AD domain credentials for CMC, then, enter the credentials in the following format:

username@domainname.com

Conguring Chassis Management Controller feature

for correlating Server Modules with the Chassis Slot

summary

To congure CMC feature for correlating server modules, create Run As Accounts and associate it to Run As Proles to populate chassis

slot summary.

1 Create a Run As Account of type Simple Authentication that has privileges to connect to the CMC module on the chassis. Also, use

the Basic or Digest Run As Account types for conguring the user credentials.

2 Select the More Secure or Less Secure option in the Run As Account conguration, so that you can selectively distribute the

conguration to specic management servers.

For information about creating a Run As Account of type Simple Authentication, see the “Creating A Simple Authentication Run As

Account” section of Dell EMC Server Management Pack Suite Version 7.0 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager User's

Guide at Dell.com/OMConnectionsEnterpriseSystemsManagement.

NOTE

: Add the Server Management Action account to the OpsMgr administrator group.

3 Associate the created Run As Accounts with the Dell CMC Login Account prole and select the appropriate class, group, or object on

which you can congure the prole.

• To enable slot summary discovery for CMC, override the enable property to True in Dell CMC Slot Discovery. It is disabled by

default.

NOTE

: After the slot discovery, if you remove the link between Run As Account with Run As Prole, or disable the slot-

discovery workow, the discovered slots remain with old data.

Feature Management tasks

The following table lists the Chassis monitoring tasks available on the Feature Management Dashboard. Some tasks listed in the Feature

Management tasks table appear only after you have imported the Chassis monitoring feature.

Chassis Monitoring Feature