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
Modify a credential profile in OMIMSSC
1. On the SCOM console, in the left pane, click Monitoring.
2. In the Monitoring pane, click Dell EMC OpenManage Integrations Views > OpenManage Integration Dashboard.
3. Log in to OMIMSSC as an administrator.
4. Click Profiles and Configuration > Credential Profile.
5. Select the profile that you want to edit, and then click Edit.
6. Modify the settings and click Save.
Delete a credential profile in OMIMSSC
1. On the SCOM console, in the left pane, click Monitoring.
2. In the Monitoring pane, click Dell EMC OpenManage Integrations Views > OpenManage Integration Dashboard.
3. Log in to OMIMSSC as an administrator.
4. In the left pane, click Profiles and Configuration > Credential Profile.
5. Select the profile that you want to delete, and then click Delete.
Run tasks on the SCOM console
1. In the left pane of SCOM, select Monitoring.
2. Expand Dell EMC.
3. Expand either Diagram Views, State Views, or Alerts Views.
4. Select the device on which you want to run the task.
A list of tasks you can run by using the monitoring feature that is used by the device is displayed in the Tasks pane of the
SCOM console.
5. In the Tasks pane, click the task that you want to run.
The task is started, and after the task is successfully run, a summary of the task is displayed.
Override properties to customize the device discovery
process
You can customize the discovery of Dell EMC devices by overriding their discovery parameters, performance, and health
metrics. To override discovery parameters, performance, and health metrics, do the following on the OMIMSSC dashboard:
1. In the left pane of SCOM, click Monitoring.
2. Click Dell EMC > Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Views > Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Dashboard.
The OMIMSSC login page is displayed in the working pane.
3. Enter credentials for viewing the OMIMSSC dashboard, and then log in to OMIMSSC. Enter the username in the format:
domain\username.
4. In the left pane, click Profiles and Configuration.
5. Select Profiles and Configuration.
The Discovery, Monitoring and Performance Overrides page is displayed. The discovery type and monitoring intervals
set on the available device types is displayed in the table.
6. Click Edit.
The Override discovery, monitoring and performance intervals dialog box is displayed.
7. Customize the monitoring settings by selecting or entering data in the fields:
a. Select the check box corresponding to the device type whose monitoring properties must be overridden.
b. Select either Detailed or Scalable as the discovery type. Ensure that you set the discovery types of all device types to
either Detailed or Scalable.
c. Enter the time frequency for automatically running the device discovery and health status jobs.
d. To enable collection of metrics, select Yes from the drop-down menu, and then enter the interval after which metrics
must be collected.
Manage OMIMSSC from the SCOM console
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