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5. The Network Switch Monitoring feature is enabled when the network switch management pack is imported from the
OMIMSSC Admin portal.
NOTE: Perform the Sync with Microsoft System Center from OMIMSSC console to complete the discovery of the
network switches that are discovered in the SCOM console.
Network Switches monitoring feature in OMIMSSC
The Dell EMC Network Switch monitoring feature discovers and monitors the health of Dell EMC Network Switches. You can
use the Monitoring pane of the SCOM console to select views that provide complete health information of the discovered Dell
EMC Network switches. The Severity levels of discovered devices on page 84 indicates the health of the Dell EMC Network
Switches on the network.
The Dell EMC Network Switch monitoring feature includes monitoring the health of the Dell EMC Network Switches—both at
regular intervals and on occurrence of health state changes.
NOTE: When you are monitoring the health of network switches, associate the community string Run As Account with the
SNMP Monitoring Account that is targeted at the Dell EMC Network switch class or respective switch object (if you have
different Run As Accounts for different Network switch devices).
Monitored network switch views on the SCOM console
The OMIMSSC appliance provides the following types of views for monitoring Dell EMC Network Switches under Monitoring >
Dell EMC on the SCOM console:
● View alerts of the monitored Dell EMC Network Switches on page 50
● View the Diagram View of network switches on page 50
● View the State view of network switches on page 51
View alerts of the monitored Dell EMC Network Switches
The alerts view is available for managing hardware from the Dell EMC Network switches. The SNMP traps that are sent through
the discovered network device or switch are displayed in the Dell EMC Network Switch Alerts view.
To view the network switch monitoring alerts:
1. In the left pane of the SCOM console, select Monitoring.
2. Expand Dell EMC > Dell EMC Alerts Views.
Alerts that meet the predefined criteria and alerts which are assigned to the network switches are displayed.
3. Select an alert to view information about that alert in the Alert Details section.
View the Diagram View of network switches
The Dell EMC Diagram view provides a hierarchical and graphical representation of all discovered Dell EMC Network switches.
To view the diagrams for network switch monitoring feature on the SCOM console:
1. In the left pane of the SCOM console, select Monitoring.
2. Expand Dell EMC > Dell EMC Diagram Views.
3. Select the Diagram Views folder to view:
● Complete Diagram View
● Dell EMC Network Switch Diagram View
See Diagram views displayed by different monitoring features of OMIMSSC on page 90.
4. Select the required diagram view.
5. Expand the network switches group to view the discovered supported and unsupported switches.
6. The switch component in the Diagram view can be further expanded to view the underlying components.
Select any component to view the details in the Detail View section.
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Discovery and monitoring of Dell EMC Network Switches using OMIMSSC