Users Guide

a. On the Discovery using an IP Range or IP Address Range:
● To discover a server by using its IP address:
a. In the iDRAC IP Address box, enter an IP address of the server to discover.
● To discover multiple servers by using a range of IP addresses:
a. Enter the IP address range.
b. To exclude IP addresses from getting discovered, select the Enable Exclude Range check box and enter the IP
address range to exclude.
You can discover a maximum of 250 servers at a time and successive discovery jobs can be triggered in an interval of one
hour.
7. From the Apply this Credential Profile drop-down menu, select the device credential profile that must be used for
discovering the device. To create a device credential profile, click Create New. See Create a device credential profile in
OMIMSSC on page 34.
8. To view the status of this job, select the Go to the Job list check box.
9. Enter a job name for this discovery task.
10. Click Finish.
A discovery job is created and started, and the discovered servers are listed on the Server View page.
NOTE: Ensure that one of the Alert Destination fields in the iDRAC SNMP Traps and Email Settings list is blank. This
ensures the automatic setting of the SNMP trap destination during device discovery. Enable Alerts and SNMP traps on the
iDRAC. With the SNMP Monitoring account configured in SCOM, the Dell EMC Servers and Rack Workstation (licensed)
alert view displays the SNMP alerts from iDRAC. For more information about configuring iDRAC trap destination, see
https://www.dell.com/iDRACmanuals.
Discover PowerEdge servers by using the SCOM
console
1. In the left pane of the SCOM console, select Authoring.
2. In the left pane, click the Add Monitoring Wizard link and perform the following actions:
3. In the Add Monitoring Wizard dialog box, under Monitoring Type, select WS-Management and SMASH Device
Discovery, and then click Next.
4. Under General Properties, enter a name and description for the template.
a. Under Management pack, click New.
b. Enter a name for the management pack in the Name field and click Next.
For information about creating a management pack, see the Microsoft SCOM documentation.
c. Click Create.
The management pack that you created is selected in the Management pack drop-down menu.
5. Click Next.
6. Under Select Target, from the Specify the target drop-down menu, select a resource pool for monitoring these devices
and click Next.
7. Under Credentials, click New and create 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].
a. Select the Run As Account you created from the Run As Account drop-down menu and click Next.
8. Under Devices, click Add.
a. 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 using Host operating system) 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 the Configuration by using iSM PowerShell script section in the Integrated Dell Remote Access
Controller7/9 with Lifecycle Controller User’s Guide at https://www.dell.com/idracmanuals.
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