Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Version 7.2 with Microsoft System Center for System Center Operations Manager User's Guide
- Contents
- About this guide
- About Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with Microsoft System Center (OMIMSSC) for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
- Purchase and manage OMIMSSC license
- Port information and Communication Matrix for OMIMSSC appliance
- Support Matrix
- Deploy and configure the OMIMSSC appliance
- OMIMSSC and SCOM interfaces for device management
- Enroll (register) management servers to OMIMSSC
- Tasks you can perform on the OMIMSSC Admin Portal
- Manage OMIMSSC from the SCOM console
- Discovery and monitoring of PowerEdge servers by using the licensed monitoring features of OMIMSSC
- Introduction to the licensed monitoring features in OMIMSSC for PowerEdge servers and rack workstations
- Discovery and classification of PowerEdge servers and workstations by using WS-Man or iDRAC access using Host operating system
- Prerequisites to discover PowerEdge Servers using Dell EMC Server and Rack Monitoring (Licensed)
- Discover PowerEdge servers by using iDRAC WS-Man through OMIMSSC
- Discover PowerEdge servers by using the SCOM console
- Object discoveries using WS-Man
- Install SNMP services to monitor PowerEdge servers
- Monitoring PowerEdge servers and rack workstations on the SCOM console
- Discovery and monitoring of Dell EMC chassis using OMIMSSC
- Discovery and monitoring of Dell EMC Network Switches using OMIMSSC
- Discovery and classification of network switches
- Override properties to customize the network switch discovery process
- Import network switch management packs for discovery from OMIMSSC Admin Portal
- Discover Dell EMC Network Switches by using OMIMSSC
- Discover Dell EMC Network Switches by using SCOM
- Network Switches monitoring feature in OMIMSSC
- Manage Dell EMC devices using the OMIMSSC appliance
- View jobs in OMIMSSC Admin Portal and OpenManage Integration Dashboard
- Run tasks on the SCOM console for OMIMSSC monitoring features
- Run OMIMSSC monitoring feature-based tasks on SCOM
- Tasks run on Dell EMC devices by using the OMIMSSC monitoring features
- Check connection to the nodes
- View warranty information of PowerEdge servers
- Start OMSA on monolithic servers using the SCOM console
- Start iDRAC using the SCOM console
- Start Remote Desktop on monolithic servers using the SCOM console
- Perform a remote iDRAC hard reset operation
- Clear Embedded Server Management (ESM) logs
- Power management-related tasks
- Start the Dell CMC console
- Upgrading the OMIMSSC appliance
- De-enroll (Deregister) management servers enrolled to OMIMSSC
- Remove an OMIMSSC VM
- Troubleshooting
- After deploying the OMIMSSC appliance, an IP address is not assigned to the OMIMSSC appliance
- After deploying the OMIMSSC appliance, enrollment of management servers with OMIMSSC is unsuccessful or the management packs are not successfully installed.
- Unable to start the OpenManage Integration Dashboard in the SCOM console
- Unable to connect to the OMIMSSC appliance
- Issues observed when usernames of local account and domain account match but the passwords differ
- Resolve issues in synchronizing data of Dell EMC devices with OMIMSSC
- Manually clean the SCOM console that is unreachable during the de-enrollment
- Connection is unavailable between OMIMSSC and the SCOM console
- Unable to log in to the OMIMSSC Admin portal by using the Mozilla Firefox browser
- A job run on OMIMSSC to discover a device stays in the Progress state for more than five hours
- Unable to discover and monitor devices after restarting OMIMSSC
- Event ID 33333: Data Access Layer rejected retry on SqlError
- Resolve issues in the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard
- Reference topics
- Monitoring features supported by OMIMSSC
- Configuring the monitoring features of OMIMSSC by using the Feature Management Dashboard
- Import monitoring features using the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard
- Upgrade monitoring features using the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard
- Customizing monitoring features using the Feature Management Dashboard for scalable and detailed editions
- Remove monitoring features using the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard
- Severity levels of discovered devices
- Key features of licensed monitoring of PowerEdge servers in OMIMSSC
- System configuration lockdown mode in iDRAC9 PowerEdge servers
- iDRAC Group Manager in iDRAC9 PowerEdge servers
- Event auto resolution
- Capacity planning of PowerEdge servers discovered through iDRAC and iSM
- Detect and restore the status of a failed CMC or OpenManage Enterprise-Modular
- Port connection information of PowerEdge servers discovered through iDRAC and iSM
- Hardware components of servers and rack workstations monitored by OMIMSSC
- Hardware components of chassis monitored by OMIMSSC
- Hardware components of network switches monitored by OMIMSSC
- View options provided by the OMIMSSC monitoring features
- OMIMSSC Unit Monitors
- Event rules used by different monitoring features of OMIMSSC
- Additional resources
- Accessing support content from the Dell EMC support site
- Contacting Dell Technologies
- Glossary
- Additional topics
Table 1. Key features with descriptions of OMIMSSC
Features Description
● SNMP traps for devices that are discovered through
WS-Man of Servers and Rack Workstation Monitoring
(Licensed) feature.
Dell EMC Chassis monitoring feature Support for the following by using the OpenManage
Integration Dashboard:
● Discovery and monitoring of Dell EMC Chassis, and Dell
OEM Ready chassis devices.
● Discovery of server modules and chassis slot summary for
CMC chassis.
● SNMP traps for Chassis devices.
Dell EMC Network Switch monitoring feature Support for the following by using the OpenManage
Integration Dashboard:
● Discovery and monitoring of Dell EMC Network Switches
devices.
● SNMP traps for Dell EMC Network Switch devices.
DRAC monitoring feature Supports:
● Discovery and monitoring of supported iDRAC devices—
12th and 13th generation only.
● SNMP and PET traps for DRAC devices.
DRAC monitoring feature is deprecated for iDRAC9-based
PowerEdge servers. Dell Technologies recommends to use
the agent-free Dell EMC Servers and Rack Workstation
(Licensed) monitoring feature to monitor iDRAC9-based
PowerEdge servers.
Advantages of the OMIMSSC appliance
● Simplifies data center operations by integrating OMIMSSC with the SCOM console.
● Uses agent-free monitoring architecture for PowerEdge servers.
● Simplifies device monitoring by using a management dashboard.
● Reduces operations cost, increase effectiveness, and enable administrators to perform value-added tasks.
● Scaling by the monitoring capabilities by configuring Proxy Management Servers in the Management Group.
● Can be deployed on either Hyper-V or ESXi by using VHD or OVA file formats.
Compare the features offered by OMIMSSC against
DSMPS
● Compare the solution offered.
○ Solution offered by the OMIMSSC appliance—OMIMSSC is an integration with SCOM, a solution that offers the agent-
free monitoring of Dell EMC devices including PowerEdge servers, PowerEdge chassis, and network switches.
○ Solution offered by DSMPS—Dell EMC Server Management Pack Suite offers the agent-based monitoring solution for
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
● Compare the discovery and monitoring features.
○ Discovery and monitoring that is offered by the OMIMSSC appliance—iDRAC agent-free discovery and monitoring of the
following platforms:
￭ Servers and rack workstations
￭ Chassis and Modular systems
￭ Network switches
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