Users Guide

Discovering Dell EMC Chassis devices in Dell EMC OMIMSSC Operations
Manager
You can discover Dell EMC chassis devices in OMIMSSC for Operations Manager by using an IP address or an IP range. To
discover a chassis, provide a chassis IP address and the device type credentials of the chassis. When you are discovering
chassis by using an IP range, specify an IP (IPv4) range within a subnet by including the start and end range.
To discover chassis:
1. In Dell EMC OMIMSSC, click Monitoring > Modular Systems View, and then click Discover.
2. In the Discover page, select the required option:
● Discover Using an IP Address—to discover a chassis using an IP address.
● Discover Using an IP Range—to discover all chassis within an IP range.
3. In Discover Using an IP Address or IP Address Range, do any of the following:
● In IP Address Start Range, and IP Address End Range, provide the IP address range you want to include, which is the
starting and ending range.
● Select Enable Exclude Range if you want to exclude an IP address range and in IP Address Start Range and IP
Address End Range, provide the range that you want to exclude.
4. In Apply this Credential Profile, select the device type credential profile.
The selected profile is applied to all the chassis.
5. To Create a new credential profile, Select Create New to create a device type credential profile
Credential profile page is displayed.
6. Select the Device Credential Profile in the credential type.
The Credentials fields get enabled.
7. Provide the Credential details and click Finish.
8. In Modular System IP address, provide the IP address of the chassis that you want to discover.
9. Provide a unique job name, and click Finish.
10. (Optional) To track this job, select Go to the Job List option.
The Jobs and Logs Center page is displayed. Expand the discovery job to view the progress of the job in the Running tab.
Discovering Dell EMC Chassis in the Operations Manager
The Chassis devices should be discovered as network devices under the Administration section of the Operations Manager
console.
To discover Chassis devices in Operations Manager:
1. Log in into the management server as an Operations Manager administrator.
2. On the Operations Manager console, click Administration.
3. At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Discovery Wizard.
4. Run the Discovery Wizard, select Network devices and follow the instructions on the screen.
For more information, see the Operations Manager documentation at technet.microsoft.com.
NOTE:
Select the Run As Account created for discovering the chassis devices. For more information, see the
"Configuring Dell Chassis Management Controller feature for correlating Server modules with Chassis slot summary"
section of the Dell EMC OpenManage Integration version 7.1.1 for Microsoft System Center fpr Operations Manager
Installation Guide at dell.com/OMConnectionsEnterpriseSystemsManagement.
5. On the Add a Device console screen in Operations Manager, type the IP address that you want to scan, select the
appropriate Run As Account from the SNMP V1 or V2 Run As Account drop-down box.
6. Enable the Chassis monitoring feature using the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard.
NOTE:
Perform the Sync with Microsoft System Center from OMIMSSC console to complete the discovery of the
chassis devices that are discovered in the Operations Manager.
90 Dell EMC OMIMSSC supported monitoring features