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
1. In the left pane of the SCOM console, select Authoring.
2. Select Authoring > Management Pack Objects > Monitors.
3. In the Look for field, under Management Server, search for Dell EMC SDK Override Appliance IP.
4. Right-click Dell EMC SDK Override Appliance IP, and then click Override > Override the Monitor > For all objects of
class.
The Override properties wizard is displayed.
5. Select Dell EMC Appliance IP under parameter name.
6. Update the Override value and click OK.
NOTE: Ensure that you do not select any other override parameters.
Unable to connect to the OMIMSSC appliance
After deploying the OMIMSSC appliance, and double-clicking the OMIMSSC appliance icon, the following message is displayed:
Connection to server failed.
Workaround:
● Add the OMIMSSC appliance IP and FQDN as a trusted site.
● In the DNS, add the Appliance IP and FQDN in the forward and reverse lookup zones.
● Check if there are any error messages in the C:\ProgramData\VMMLogs\AdminConsole file.
Issues observed when usernames of local account and
domain account match but the passwords differ
The following issues are observed if the usernames are same and passwords are different for the domain user account and the
local user on the management server and/or on the proxy management server:
● Unable to successfully test connection between the OMIMSSC appliance and the SCOM console.
● After a discovery job is completed successfully in the Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Dashboard, SCOM objects are not
discovered in the respective Dell EMC device state views and diagram views.
● Devices discovered in the SCOM console remain in the unmonitored state in the Dell EMC device state views and diagram
views .
For example,
● Domain user account: domain\user1, pwd1
● Local user account: user1, Pwd2
When the user tries to enroll with the above domain user account, the test-connection operation will not be successful.
Workaround—Use different usernames for the domain user and local user accounts or use a single user account as local user
when enrolling a SCOM console to the OMIMSSC appliance.
Ensure to configure the modified domain user account on the management server and/or on the proxy management server
before discovering Dell EMC devices.
Resolve issues in synchronizing data of Dell EMC
devices with OMIMSSC
Sometimes, devices that are discovered in SCOM may not be synchronized with OMIMSSC because of invalid credentials,
HTTPS port number, SNMP port number, or community string. Because of such errors, OMIMSSC cannot discover devices
and these devices are listed with their IP addresses. To resolve the synchronization errors, ensure that you provide relevant
credentials.
To resolve synchronization errors, do the following:
1. In the left pane of the SCOM console, select Monitoring.
2. Select Dell EMC OpenManage Integrations Views > OpenManage Integration Dashboard.
Troubleshooting
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