Users Guide

2. On the Operations Manager console, click Authoring.
3. At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Add Monitoring Wizard.
The Add Monitoring Wizard screen is displayed.
4. On the Select Monitoring Type screen, select WS-Management and SMASH Device Discovery and click Next.
5. On the General Properties screen, in the Name field provide a name for the wizard.
6. Under Management pack, click New.
The Create a Management Pack screen is displayed.
7. Provide a name for the management pack in the Name field and click Next.
For information on creating a management pack, see the Operations Manager documentation at technet.microsoft.com.
8. Click Create.
The management pack you created is selected in the Management pack drop-down box.
9. Click Next.
10. On the Specify the target drop-down menu, select a resource pool for monitoring these devices and click Next.
11. On the Specify the account to be used to run discovery screen, click New and create a Simple Authentication Run As Account.
For more information on creating a Simple Authentication type Run As Account, see Creating a Simple Authentication Run As Account.
NOTE: If you are using AD domain credentials for iDRAC, then, enter the credentials in the following format:
[e-mail].
12. Select the Run As Account you created from the Run As Account drop-down menu and click Next.
13. Click Add.
14. On the Add Devices screen specify the iDRAC IP (if your preferred discovery method is iDRAC–WS-MAN) or the Host IP (if
your preferred discovery method is iDRAC access via Host OS) address of the systems you want to discover, based on your
monitoring preference. You can specify the preferred IP address of the systems by:
• Scanning the IP Subnet that you provided.
• Scanning a specified IP Range.
• Importing a text file containing the list of iDRAC IP/ Host IP addresses.
For more information, see Configuration by using iSM PowerShell script in the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller7/9 with
Lifecycle Controller User’s Guide at Dell.com/idracmanuals.
15. Click Advanced Options, select the Skip CA Check and Skip CN Check option and click OK.
16. Click Scan for Devices to search Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers on your network.
The IP addresses are listed under Available Devices.
17. Click Add to add the list of IP addresses you want to monitor and click OK.
18. On the Specify the devices you want to monitor screen, click Create.
19. Click Close.
The scanned Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers initially appear in Monitoring > WS-Management and SMASH Monitoring > WS-
Management Device State screen. After the automatically triggered SMASH discovery is completed by the Operations Manager,
the Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers appear in Monitoring > WS-Management and SMASH Monitoring > SMASH Device State
screen.
20. Enable the Dell EMC Server and Rack Monitoring (Licensed) feature through Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard.
Object discoveries through iDRAC–WS-MAN on the Operations Manager
Table 25. Objects discovered through iDRAC–WS-MAN
Discovery Object Description
Dell EMC PowerEdge Server Discovery Classifies the Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers and populates the key
attributes and components.
Dell Device Helper Discovery Discovers the DellDeviceHelper as an object.
Dell Host NIC Correlation Discovery
Correlates the Host NIC interfaces with Physical interfaces.
NOTE: Teamed network interfaces will show only one of
the NICs in the team.
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