Users Guide

○ Discovery and monitoring that is offered by DSMPS—Discovery and monitoring of servers and rack workstations using
software-based agent (OMSA) or through iSM (for iSM-based discovery, the iDRAC license are imported to the iDRAC
console which is per node).
NOTE: The discovery of the iSM licensed would remain same as SCOM native discovery using DSMPS management
packs corresponding to this monitoring feature.
● Compare the licensed features.
○ License features offered by the OMIMSSC appliance—OMIMSSC appliance has license for Dell EMC server and rack
workstation monitoring feature using iDRAC agent- free and iSM.
NOTE: The agent-based licensed Server and Rack workstation monitoring feature (iSM-WMI based) is not
supported through the OMIMSSC appliance console directly. The discovery of the iSM licensed would remain same
as SCOM native discovery using DSMPS management packs corresponding to this monitoring feature.
○ License features offered by DSMPS—DSMPS has license for Dell EMC server and rack workstation monitoring feature
using iSM.
● Compare the license-free features.
○ License-free features offered by the OMIMSSC appliance:
￭ Dell EMC Chassis monitoring feature
￭ Dell EMC Chassis modular servers monitoring feature
￭ Dell EMC Chassis and modular servers correlation feature
￭ Dell EMC Network Switch monitoring feature
○ License-free features offered by DSMPS:
￭ Dell EMC server and rack workstation monitoring feature using OMSA (license-free)
￭ Dell Remote Access Controllers (DRAC) monitoring feature
● Compare the license types Both the OMIMSSC appliance and DSMPS versions have the following license types:
○ Evaluation license—A trial version of the license that supports up to five nodes.
○ Production license—you can purchase the production license from Dell EMC based on the number of nodes that you
want to monitor are managed with OMIMSSC for SCOM.
● Necessity of proxy management servers (henceforth referred to as Dell EMC Alert Relay Servers) in OMIMSSC
and DSMPS
○ Does the OMIMSSC appliance require a proxy management server—Yes. For more information, see the Scalability with
Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with Microsoft System Center (OMIMSSC) for System Center Operations Manager
(SCOM) technical white paper on the support site.
○ Does DSMPS require proxy management server—Not applicable.
● Compare the number of nodes supported.
○ Nodes supported by the OMIMSSC appliance—600 and above, in multiples of 1,000 devices. For more information
about configuring Proxy Management Servers, see the Scalability with Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with Microsoft
System Center (OMIMSSC) for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) technical white paper on the support site.
○ Nodes supported by DSMPS—Maximum of 600 devices.
For more information about DSMPS, see the Dell EMC Server Management Pact Suite for Microsoft System Center—
Operations Manager User's Guide on the support site.
New features of OMIMSSC 7.2
● Along with the existing support for deploying OMIMSSC on Hyper-V by using a VHD file, you can deploy OMIMSSC 7.2 on
VMware ESXi versions by using an OVA file. For more information about the supported ESXi versions, see Support Matrix on
page 18.
● Update Rollup 1 for SCOM 2019.
● Update Rollup 8 for SCOM 2016.
● Update Rollup 9 for SCOM 2016.
● Support for environments where SCOM with gateway servers is deployed, where the SCOM management server with proxy
management server, OMIMSSC, and iDRACs are part of the same management network.
● Support for the following latest iDRAC9—based PowerEdge servers:
○ PowerEdge R6515
○ PowerEdge R6525
○ PowerEdge R7515
○ PowerEdge R7525
○ PowerEdge C6525
For more information about the iDRAC9—based PowerEdge servers, see iDRAC9-based PowerEdge servers.
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About Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with Microsoft System Center (OMIMSSC) for System Center Operations
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