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 5. Support Matrix
Supported software and hardware Requirements and versions
Hard drive on the system where the OMIMSSC
appliance VM gets deployed.
Minimum of 40 GB
OMIMMSC features
Management Server (MS) requirements -
Operating systems
● For SCOM 2019, see https://www.docs.microsoft.com/en-us/
system-center/scom/?view=sc-om-2019.
● For SCOM 2016, see https://www.docs.microsoft.com/en-us/
system-center/scom/?view=sc-om-2016.
● For SCOM 2012 R2, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-
versions/system-center/system-center-2012-R2/hh546785(v=sc.12).
The Chassis Detailed and Scalable editions are supported only on SCOM
2019, SCOM 2016, and SCOM 2012 R2.
Managed System requirements -
Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring
(Licensed)
iDRAC9-based
PowerEdge servers
with Lifecycle
Controller
Firmware version 4.20.20.20 and earlier versions
iDRAC8-based
PowerEdge 13th
generation servers with
Lifecycle Controller
Firmware version 2.xx.xx.xx
iDRAC7-based
PowerEdge 12th
generation servers
Firmware version 1.6x.6x and 2.xx.xx.xx
iDRAC Service Module (iSM) Monitoring Feature iSM for iDRAC9-based
and 13th generation of
PowerEdge servers
3.5.1 and 3.4.0
Dell EMC Chassis Monitoring Feature Dell EMC PowerEdge
FX2/FX2s
Firmware versions 2.21 and 2.20
Dell EMC PowerEdge
VRTX
Firmware versions 3.21 and 3.20
Dell EMC PowerEdge
M1000e
Firmware versions 6.21 and 6.20
OpenManage Enterprise—Modular Monitoring
Feature
Dell EMC PowerEdge
MX7000
Firmware versions 1.10.20 and 1.10.10
DRAC Monitoring Feature iDRAC8 with Lifecycle
Controller Modular and
Monolithic
Firmware version 2.xx.xx.xx
iDRAC7 Modular and
Monolithic
Firmware versions 2.xx.xx.xx and 1.6x.6x
iDRAC6 Monolithic Firmware versions 2.92 and 2.85
iDRAC6 Modular Firmware versions 3.80 and 3.65
Dell EMC Network Switch Monitoring Feature N Series of network
switches
Firmware versions 6.6.xx.xx and 6.5.xx.xx
M, S, and Z Series of
network switches
Firmware versions 9.14.xx.xx and 9.13.xx.xx
Chassis Modular Server Correlation Feature
Support Matrix
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