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
About Dell EMC OpenManage Integration
with Microsoft System Center (OMIMSSC)
for System Center Operations Manager
(SCOM)
Microsoft System Center—Operations Manager (SCOM) enables you to monitor devices and applications in your data center.
Dell EMC provides management packs both on the OpenManage Integration with Microsoft System Center (OMIMSSC) for
Operations Manager appliance and Dell EMC Server Management Pack Suite (DSMPS), by using which, administrators can
manage their Microsoft and Dell EMC devices by using a single interface: The Microsoft System Center—Operations Manager
(SCOM) console. The Dell EMC OMIMSSC appliance is an integration with Microsoft SCOM to discover, inventory, monitor
health, and generate performance metrics and alerts of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and rack workstations that are discovered
through iDRAC using WS-Man, Chassis or modular systems (including PowerEdge MX7000), and network switches. The
OMIMSSC appliance offers the agent-free monitoring of Dell EMC Servers and Rack Workstations—through iDRAC using
WS-Man, chassis, and network switches. You can use the legacy management packs to perform agent-based monitoring of
PowerEdge servers and rack workstations by using iSM using WMI or an OMSA agent.
OMIMSSC is a VM that is hosted on one of the following:
● Hyper-V using a VHD file.
● VMware ESXi using an OVA file.
OMIMSSC is an appliance-based solution available in a ZIP file package. There are two supported file formats of the appliance
that can be extracted from the following ZIP packages:
● OMIMSSC_SCOM_7.2.0.xxxx_VHD.zip, where xxxx is the build version, can be extracted to a VHD file format.
● OMIMSSC_SCOM_7.2.0.xxxx_OVA.zip, where xxxx is the build version, can be extracted to an OVA file format.
Both the above compressed packages contain:
● VHD file or OVA file.
● A PowerShell script—DellEMC-Proxy-MS-Configuration-Script.ps1 to configure certain registry entries on Proxy
Management Servers (henceforth referred to as Dell EMC Alert Relay Servers) using the registry file—DellEMC-SCOM-
Agent-Registry.reg.
● Documentation folder containing the readme.txt and the PDF version of the OMIMSSC User's Guide.
The Dell EMC OMIMSSC appliance is based on CentOS and interacts with the Dell EMC devices.
The supported protocols for communication with the devices are:
● Web Services-Management (WS-Man)
● Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
● Redfish
NOTE:
For more information about port connection, see Port information and Communication Matrix for OMIMSSC
appliance on page 16.
Topics:
• OMIMSSC architecture overview
• Key features of OMIMSSC
• Advantages of the OMIMSSC appliance
• Compare the features offered by OMIMSSC against DSMPS
• New features of OMIMSSC 7.2
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