Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Version 7.2 for Microsoft System Center for Operations Manager (SCOM) User's Guide September 2020 Rev.
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Contents Chapter 1: Introduction to Dell EMC OMIMSSC and DSMPS version 7.2 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager....................................................................................................... 5 What's new in this release.................................................................................................................................................6 Terms used in this document.....................................................................................
Monitoring DRAC devices in Operations Manager..............................................................................................62 Dell Unit Monitors for DRAC Monitoring Feature .............................................................................................. 64 Rules............................................................................................................................................................................... 64 Dell EMC PowerEdge Server Tasks..........
1 Introduction to Dell EMC OMIMSSC and DSMPS version 7.2 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager This document describes the activities that you can perform with the Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center(OMIMSSC) version 7.2 for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) using OMIMSSC appliance or DSMPS. The Dell EMC OMIMSSC v7.2 is an appliance based solution packaged as: ● A .vhd file that can be deployed on a virtual machine that is hosted on a Hyper-V.
What's new in this release Dell EMC OpenManage Integration version 7.2 for Microsoft System Center for Operations Manager(SCOM) brings the following feature: ● Support for deploying the Dell EMC OMIMSSC appliance for System Center Operation Manager(SCOM) version 7.2 on the following VMware ESXi versions using .ova file: ○ Version 6.5 ○ Version 6.7 ○ Version 7.0 along with the existing support for deploying Dell EMC OMIMSSC appliance for SCOM on Hyper-V using .vhd file.
Table 1. Terms used in this document (continued) Term Refers to Integrated Dell Remote Access Controllers (iDRAC) iDRAC of Dell EMC PowerEdge Server, Dell EMC branded or Dell EMC OEM Ready servers, unless otherwise specified. iDRAC Service Module (iSM) iDRAC Service Module is a lightweight software that runs on the Server and complements iDRAC with monitoring information from the OS.
○ Dell EMC Chassis—PowerEdge FX2/ FX2s, PowerEdge VRTX, PowerEdge M1000e, PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis, and Dell OEM Ready Chassis ○ Dell EMC Network Switches—M-Series, Z-Series, N-Series, and S-Series switches ○ Supports OpenManage Enterprise-Modular ○ Supported Dell Precision Racks ○ Dell EMC Chassis Modular Server Correlation feature ● View, analyze, and resolve alerts using Knowledge Base (KB) articles. ● Perform various tasks on the discovered Dell EMC devices.
Table 2. Features and Descriptions (continued) Feature Descriptions ● SNMP traps for Dell EMC Network Switch devices. Discovery and Monitoring — Dell Remote Access Controllers (DRAC) Supports: ● Discovery and monitoring of supported iDRAC devices — 12th and 13th generation only. ● SNMP and PET traps for DRAC devices. Introduction to Dell EMC OMIMSSC and DSMPS version 7.
2 Dell EMC OMIMSSC The topics in this section describes the OMIMSSC components and the Admin portal, various profiles supported in OMIMSSC, and OMIMSSC based discovery and monitoring of the Dell EMC devices.
○ The OMIMSSC can be administered through the Dell EMC OMIMSSC Admin Portal. Using Dell EMC OMIMSSC Admin Portal The Admin Portal allows you to log in to Dell EMC OMIMSSC as an administrator to view all jobs started in Dell EMC OMIMSSC by various users, view license details, console details, and to upgrade Dell EMC OMIMSSC. Following are the use cases in admin portal along with licensing. Figure 1.
You can create the following credential profile: ● Windows Credential Profile—This profile is used for enrollment of the console with the OMIMSSC. ● Device Credential Profile—This profile consists of the credentials, SNMP community string, https port number and SNMP port number fields which are used to access an iDRAC console, or Chassis Management Controller/OpenManage Enterprise Modular (CMC/OME-M) console, or a network switch management console.
1. Launch the OpenManage Integration Dashboard under Dell EMC OpenManage Integrations Views. 2. Log in into the Dell EMC OMIMSSC. Go to Profiles and Configuration > Credential Profile. 3. Select the credential profile that you want to delete, and then click Delete. Adding Proxy MS to DellProxyMSGroup and Synchronizing Dell Proxy MS with OMIMSSC During enrollment, a group that is named DellProxyMSGroup is created.
Discovering Dell EMC devices and synchronizing with Operations Manager Discovery is the process of adding supported Dell EMC devices comprising of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, Dell EMC chassis, and Dell EMC Network switches in OMIMSSC, and synchronizing with Operations Manager allows you to add devices from Operations Manager into OMIMSSC. Discovering Dell EMC devices using OMIMSSC appliance You can manually discover the Dell EMC devices by using an IP address or an IP range.
To synchronize all the Dell EMC devices from the enrolled Operations Manager to OMIMSSC, perform the following: 1. Navigate to the Monitoring pane of Operations Manager. 2. Select Dell EMC > Dell EMC OpenManage Integrations Views > Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Dashboard. 3. Log in into the Dell EMC OMIMSSC. 4. Go to Monitoring and select any of the device and, then click Synchronize with MSSC to synchronize all the devices listed in enrolled Operations Manager with the OMIMSSC.
Deleting Dell EMC devices from OMIMSSC To delete the Dell EMC devices from OMIMSSC, perform the following steps: 1. Log in to the Operations Manager console. 2. In the lower left pane, select Monitoring > Dell EMC > Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Views > OpenManage Integration Dashboard. The Dell EMC OMIMSSC Log In page is displayed. 3. Log in into the OMIMSSC and go to Monitoring. Select any of the following devices that you want to delete: ● Server ● Modular System ● Network Switch 4.
Viewing jobs You can view all jobs created in Dell EMC OMIMSSC along with their status information. To view the jobs: 1. In Dell EMC OMIMSSC console, click Jobs and Log Center. 2. To view a specific category of jobs, such as Running, Scheduled, History, or Generic, click the respective tab. Expand the job to view all the servers included in the job. Expand further to view the log messages for that job.
3 Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard The Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard provides facilities for the configuration of the Dell EMC Server Management Pack Suite monitoring features to monitor the various Dell systems—Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers, Dell Precision Racks, Dell Remote Access Controllers (DRAC), PowerEdge FX2/ FX2s, PowerEdge VRTX, PowerEdge M1000E, Dell EMC Network switches, and integrated DRAC (iDRAC).
NOTE: ● In the Event log, ignore the errors pertaining to reimporting of existing management packs. These errors occur when Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard reimports all the dependent management packs that were already imported while importing a monitoring feature. ● Wait for a task to complete (view the state update change in the dashboard) before launching another task using the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard.
Table 4. Feature Management Tasks. (continued) Tasks Description Refresh Dashboard Updates the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard. Refresh Node Count Updates the node count. Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring Enable Agent Proxying Enables agent proxying for Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers. Refresh Dashboard Updates the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard. Refresh Node Count Updates the node count.
Table 4. Feature Management Tasks. (continued) Tasks Description when the Servers and Rack Workstations in the setup are monitored through both, Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring feature, and the (Licensed) feature. Set to Detailed Feature (Licensed) If the Scalable feature is running on the system, the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard switches from the Scalable feature to the Detailed feature.
4 Dell EMC Server Management pack suite version 7.2 supported Monitoring features The topics in this section describe the monitoring features that are supported by DSMPS version 7.2 for Operations Manager.
Discover and classify Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers by using DSMPS version 7.2 for Operations Manager The Dell EMC Server Management Pack 7.2 for Microsoft System center Operations Manager enables you to discover and classify Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers—Monolithic, Modular, Sleds, and supported Dell Precision Racks. The following table lists the details of the hardware discovery and grouping: Table 6.
Table 7. Dell EMC Servers and Rack Workstation Monitoring Feature Discoveries (continued) Discovery Description Dell EMC OpenManage Software Services discovery Discovers the objects for OMSA Windows services. Dell EMC PowerEdge Server Detailed BIOS discovery Discovers BIOS objects for each Dell EMC PowerEdge Server (Detailed edition only). Dell EMC PowerEdge Server Detailed Memory discovery Discovers memory instances for the Dell EMC PowerEdge Server (Detailed edition only).
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Table 8. Monitored hardware components—Scalable and Detailed feature (continued) Hardware components Scalable Detailed Storage Enclosure Sensors No Yes Teamed Network interface Unit No Yes Voltage Sensor No Yes Voltage Sensor Group No Yes Dell EMC Server Management Pack 7.
Viewing Dell EMC Diagram Views for Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation feature on the Operations Manager console To view the Dell EMC Diagram views on the Operations Manager console: 1. Start the Operations Manager console and click Monitoring > Dell EMC > Dell EMC Diagram Views. 2.
Dell EMC Monolithic Servers Diagram View The Dell EMC Monolithic Servers Diagram View offers a graphical representation of all Monolithic systems and allows you to expand and verify the status of individual devices and their components in the diagram. Dell EMC Sled Servers Diagram View The Dell EMC Sled Servers Diagram View offers a graphical representation of all Sled servers and allows you to expand and verify the status of individual devices and their components in the diagram.
Dell EMC Network Interfaces Component Hierarchy The Dell EMC Network Interfaces group is created only when an Intel or Broadcom network interface card is present and enabled on the Dell EMC PowerEdge Server. Network interfaces are grouped under Physical Interfaces and Teamed Interfaces. If you disable a network interface, the network interfaces group will be removed from management in the next discovery cycle.
1. Start the Operations Manager console. 2. In the navigation pane, click Authoring. 3. In the left pane, Click Monitors. Enter Network Interfaces Group as the phrase to search for the server you want to enable the functionality on. For example, Dell Windows Server. 4. Click Entity Health > Availability. 5. Right-click Network Interfaces Group to Dell Server Health Roll up and select Overrides > Override the Monitor > For all objects of class: Dell Windows Server.
Enabling Performance and Power Monitoring Unit Monitors 1. Launch Operations Manager console and click Authoring. 2. Click Management Pack Objects > Monitors, and then search for Performance in the Look for: field. 3. Click Dell Windows Server > Performance. 4. Right-click the unit monitor you want to enable. 5. Select Overrides > Override the Monitor and select an option based on your requirement.
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Storage Management All informational, warning, and critical events for the Server Administrator Storage Management Service have a corresponding event processing rule.
For information on creating a management pack, see the Operations Manager related information at https:// technet.microsoft.com/en-us/. c. Click Create. The management pack you created is selected in the Select destination management pack drop-down menu. 7. Click Apply. Dell EMC PowerEdge Server Tasks Tasks are available in the Tasks pane of the Operations Manager console. When you select a device or a component, the relevant tasks is displayed in the Tasks pane.
Table 11. Dell Windows Server tasks (continued) Task Description Power On Turns on the system power. This option is available only if the system is turned off. Power Reset Turns off the system power and turns it on again. Turn LED Identification On Turns on the identify LED for 255 seconds on the selected system. Turn LED Identification Off Turns off the identify LED on the selected system.
When you run the Clear ESM Logs task, on the task execution screen only the result of the task initiating is displayed. For example, the task execution screen may show a success result even if the ESM logs are not cleared. This means that the Clear ESM Logs task initiation was successful. Force Power Off The Force Power Off task allows you to turn off the Dell EMC PowerEdge server without shutting down the operating system. NOTE: To enable Advanced Power Control, install BMU in the default path.
1. In the Operations Manager console, go to a Dell EMC Diagram Views, Dell EMC State Views, or Dell EMC Alerts Views. 2. Select the desired Dell EMC PowerEdge server in any of the Diagram Views or State Views or an alert in the Alerts Views. 3. In the Tasks pane, select Dell Windows Server Tasks > Launch Dell Remote Access Console. Launch OpenManage Server Administrator To launch OpenManage Server Administrator: 1.
NOTE: To enable Advanced Power Control, install BMU in the default path. If BMU is not installed in the default path, create a new console task. For more information on creating a new console task, see Creating Advanced Power Control And LED Identification Tasks. To power on a system: 1. In the Operations Manager console, go to a Dell EMC Diagram Views, Dell EMC State Views, or Dell EMC Alerts Views. 2.
Reports about Dell EMC PowerEdge Server on the Operations Manager The reporting feature allows you to create reports for Dell EMC OpenManage Windows Event Log, Dell server BIOS, firmware, and RAID configuration. NOTE: ● Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring feature supports Reports only for object-level. ● Dell server BIOS, firmware, and RAID configuration reports are available only in the Detailed Edition.
Generate firmware and driver report on the Operations Manager To create a report for firmware and driver versions: 1. On the Operations Manager console, click Reporting. 2. Click Dell Windows Server (Detail Edition). 3. Click Firmware and Driver Versions, then click Open on the Task pane. 4. Select a time period for which you want the report generated. 5. Click Add Object. 6. Search for objects of class Dell Windows Server and click Add. You will find the object in the Selected object pane. 7. Click Run.
Discover and monitor Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and rack workstations through iSM—WMI using DSMPS version 7.2 This section describes how you can monitor Dell EMC devices through iSM–Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to retrieve details from the supported Dell EMC devices. This option provides scalable inventory and monitoring of the 12th, 13th generation, and iDRAC 9-based PowerEdge servers, and supported Dell EMC Precision Rack Workstations.
For more information, see the section Windows Management Instrumentation providers in the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller7/8/9 with Lifecycle Controller User’s Guide at Dell.com/idracmanuals. ● In the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard, the Enable Agent Proxying task is run for the Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation (Licensed) monitoring feature. Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers are discovered through the Operations Manager Agent Management infrastructure.
Monitoring The Monitoring pane of the Operations Manager is used to select views that provide health information of the discovered Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers. The Severity Level Indicators helps you to indicate the health of the Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers on the network. It includes monitoring the health of Dell EMC Modular and Dell EMC Monolithic servers, and Dell Precision Rack Workstations at their group level, both at regular intervals and on occurrence of events.
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1. Launch the Operations Manager console and click Monitoring > Dell EMC > Dell EMC Diagram Views. 2. Go to the Dell EMC Diagram Views folder for the following views: ● Dell EMC Complete Diagram View ● Dell Rack Workstation Diagram Views ○ Dell EMC Rack Workstation Diagram Views ● Dell Server Diagram Views ○ Dell EMC Modular Systems Diagram View ○ Dell EMC Monolithic Servers Diagram View ○ Dell EMC Sled Servers Diagram View 3. Select any of the Dell EMC Diagram Views.
Dell EMC Modular and Dell EMC Monolithic Systems The Dell EMC Modular Systems Diagram View and Dell EMC Monolithic Servers Diagram View offers the following details: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Network Interfaces Group Memory Group Power Supply Group Sensors Group Processor Group Storage Components Group BIOS iDRAC Host NIC Group SD Card Group iDRAC License Group Dell EMC Modular Systems Diagram View The Dell EMC Modular Systems Diagram View offers a graphical representation of all Modular systems and allows yo
● System Board Usage metrics are supported only on some of the 13th generation of the PowerEdge servers. For more information on performance information collection, see View Dell EMC servers performance collection rules set on Operations Manager. By default, the Dell Server Performance rule is set to Disabled. ● The Dell EMC Performance View displays the performance index of CPU, Memory and I/O utilization index, and system level CUPS index in a graphical format.
Dell EMC State Views This view is available for viewing the health of all Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers and supported Dell EMC Rack Workstations. In the Operations Manager console, click Monitoring > Dell EMC > Dell EMC State Views, the status of each Dell EMC server and Rack Workstation managed by Operations Manager on the network is displayed.
Disabled. To enable the Dell Server Capacity Check unit monitor, see the Enabling Dell Server Capacity Check unit monitor. The minimum threshold value is 1, and the maximum threshold value is 99. The default threshold value is 60. You can configure the threshold values within the specified range i.e 1–99. In case, you provide a threshold value other than the specified ranges, the default threshold value is considered.
Dell Unit Monitors for Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) feature—iSM–WMI Monitors to assess various conditions that can occur in the monitored objects. Table 16.
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Table 17. Summary of the tasks discovered through iSM–WMI method of Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) Feature Task Description Check Node Interfaces Checks if the selected Dell server and its corresponding interface; WMI is reachable or non-reachable. Get Warranty Information Retrieves the warranty information for the selected system. NOTE: An active Internet connection is required to retrieve the warranty information.
2. Select the desired Dell EMC PowerEdge server in any of the Diagram Views or State Views or an alert in the Dell EMC Alerts Views. 3. In the Tasks pane, select Dell Server Tasks > Get Warranty Information. Remote iDRAC hard reset This feature allows the administrator to perform a remote iDRAC reset operation without having to shut down the server. Using iDRAC, you can monitor the supported servers for critical system hardware, firmware, or software issues.
2. Select the desired Dell EMC PowerEdge server in any of the Diagram Views or State Views or an alert in the Dell EMC Alerts Views. 3. In the Tasks pane, select Dell Server Tasks > Launch Dell OpenManage Power Center. Launch Dell Remote Access Console To launch the Dell Remote Access Console: 1. In the Operations Manager console, go to a Dell EMC Diagram Views, Dell EMC State Views, or Dell EMC Alerts Views. 2.
Table 18. Dell Hardware discovery and grouping. Group Diagram View Hardware Type Rack Workstation Monitoring feature. Discovering DRAC Devices The DRAC devices must be discovered as network devices under the Administration section of the Operations Manager console. To discover DRAC devices: 1. Log on to the management server as an Operations Manager administrator. 2. On the Operations Manager console, click Administration. 3. At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Discovery Wizard. 4.
Table 19. DRAC Monitoring Feature Discoveries. (continued) Discovery Object Description Dell Integrated Remote Access Monolithic Group Discovery Discovers the Dell Integrated Remote Access Monolithic group and iDRAC (Monolithic). Dell Integrated Remote Access Modular Group Discovery Discovers and populates the iDRAC (Modular) group.
Diagram Views of Remote access controllers for DRAC monitoring feature on the Operations Manager console The Dell EMC Diagram Views offers a hierarchical and graphical representation of all Dell DRAC devices on the network. Viewing Dell EMC Diagrams Views for DRAC feature on the Operations Manager console To view the diagrams for DRAC monitoring feature on the Operations Manager console: 1. Launch the Operations Manager console and click Monitoring > Dell EMC > Dell EMC Diagram Views. 2.
Dell Unit Monitors for DRAC Monitoring Feature Monitors to assess various conditions that can occur in DRAC monitored objects. Table 20. Dell Unit Monitors for DRAC Monitoring Feature Object Unit Monitor iDRAC6 Modular Dell Remote Access Status Periodic iDRAC6 Monolithic Dell Remote Access Status Periodic iDRAC7 Modular NOTE: For iDRAC7 modular and monolithic servers, the Dell RAC periodic-based and Dell RAC triggered-based unit monitors are disabled.
Dell Systems Event Processing Rules The Dell EMC Server Management Pack Suite processes rules from DRAC traps. DRAC Devices All informational, warning, and critical SNMP traps for the DRAC devices have a corresponding SNMP trap rule. Each of these rules are processed based on the following criteria: ● Source Name = "DRAC/CMC name or ip" ● OID = Actual trap ID of the DRAC /CMC SNMP trap event ● Data Provider = SNMP trap NOTE: Informational alerts are turned off by default.
Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC) tasks Check Node Interfaces The Check Node Interfaces task checks if the selected Dell DRAC/iDRAC device and its corresponding interface; SNMP is reachable or non-reachable. To check the node interfaces: 1. In the Operations Manager console, go to a Dell EMC Diagram Views, Dell EMC State Views, or Dell EMC Alerts Views. 2. Select the desired Dell DRAC/iDRAC in any of the Diagram Views, State Views, or an alert in the Dell EMC Alerts Views. 3.
Launch Dell Remote Access Console You can use this task to launch the Dell Remote Access Console, if the DRAC is installed on the Dell system. To launch Dell Remote Access console: 1. In the Operations Manager console, go to a Dell EMC Diagram Views, Dell EMC State Views, or Dell EMC Alerts Views. 2. Select the desired DRAC/iDRAC device in any of the Diagram Views or State Views or an alert in the Dell EMC Alerts Views. 3.
5 Dell EMC OMIMSSC supported monitoring features The topics in this section describe the monitoring features that are supported by OMIMSSC for Operations Manager.
NOTE: PowerVault servers are not supported for iDRAC Service Module (iSM). For more information about discovering Dell EMC devices, see Discovering a Dell EMC PowerEdge Server For more information about using the iDRAC access via Host OS, see the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller7/8/9 with Lifecycle Controller User’s Guide at Dell.com/idracmanuals.
2. In the Discover page, select the required option: ● Discover Using an IP Address—to discover a server using an IP address. ● Discover Using an IP Range—to discover all server within an IP range. 3. In Discover Using an IP Address or IP Address Range, do any of the following: ● In IP Address Start Range, and IP Address End Range, provide the IP address range that you want to include, which is the starting and ending range.
11. On the Specify the account to be used to run discovery screen, click New and create a Simple Authentication Run As Account. For more information on creating a Simple Authentication type Run As Account, see Creating a Simple Authentication Run As Account. NOTE: If you are using AD domain credentials for iDRAC, then, enter the credentials in the following format: username@domainname.com. 12. Select the Run As Account you created from the Run As Account drop-down menu and click Next. 13. Click Add. 14.
1. Navigate to Server Manager > Roles and Features > Features for the managed node. 2. Install SNMP Services. 3. From the list of available services, right-click SNMP Services and select Properties. 4. In the SNMP Services Properties (Local Computer) window, select the Traps tab. 5. Set a Community string in the Community name field and provide the Management Server IP address in the Trap Destinations field and then click OK.
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On the right pane of each of the individual Dell EMC Alerts Views, alerts that meet the criteria you specify, such as alert severity, resolution state, or alerts that are assigned to you is displayed. 4. Select an alert to view the details in the Alert Details pane.
Dell EMC Monolithic Servers Diagram View The Dell EMC Monolithic Systems Diagram View offers a graphical representation of all Monolithic systems and allows you to expand and verify the status of individual devices and their components in the diagram. Dell EMC Sled Servers Diagram View The Dell EMC Sled Servers Diagram View offers a graphical representation of all Sled servers and allows you to expand and verify the status of individual devices and their components in the diagram.
3. To view the System Board Usage metrics, click Dell EMC Performance and Power Monitoring Views > Dell EMC System Board Usage for the following views: ● ● ● ● CPU Usage (%) IO Usage (%) Memory Usage (%) Overall System Usage (%) 4. Select the counters from the individual performance views and select the time range for the values required. The data collected is represented in a graphical format for each system.
The health of a component is derived by reviewing the unresolved alerts associated with the component. Severity levels used in Dell EMC Server Management Pack suite and OMIMSSC Operations explains the various state components that the Dell EMC Server Management Pack Suite uses with their corresponding severity levels.
the console until they are manually acknowledged. Event Auto Resolution feature automatically resolves or acknowledges such Dell device events. The auto resolution of events can be classified as: ● Problem to problem— One problem event resolves another problem event. For example, a temperature sensor sends a warning event when it crosses the warning threshold. If there is no action, after certain time, the same sensor sends critical event when it crosses the critical event.
1. Launch Operations Manager console, and click Authoring. 2. Click Management Pack Objects > Monitors, and then search for Dell Server Capacity Check in the Look for: field. 3. Click Entity Health > Availability. 4. Right-click Dell Server Capacity Check and select Overrides > Override the Monitor > For all objects of class: Dell Server Capacity Threshold Check. The Override Properties screen is displayed. 5. Select Enabled and set the Override Value to True. 6.
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Table 26. Dell Unit Monitors for Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) feature (continued) Object Unit Monitor Dell Temperature Sensor Group Dell Server Temperature Sensor Group Health Periodic Dell Voltage Sensor Dell Server Voltage Sensor Health Periodic Dell Voltage Sensor Group Dell Server Sensors Voltage Group Periodic Rules The following section lists the rules specific to the Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) feature.
Table 27. Summary of the Dell tasks discovered using Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) Feature Task Description Check Node Interfaces Checks if the selected Dell EMC PowerEdge server and its corresponding interfaces; WS-MAN or SNMP is reachable or non-reachable. Get Warranty Information Retrieves the warranty information for the selected system. NOTE: An active Internet connection is required to retrieve the warranty information.
Get Warranty Information You can use this task to see the warranty status of the selected Dell EMC PowerEdge server. To get warranty information: 1. In the Operations Manager console, go to a Dell EMC Diagram Views, Dell EMC State Views, or Dell EMC Alerts Views. 2. Select the desired Dell EMC PowerEdge server in any of the Diagram Views or State Views or an alert in the Dell EMC Alerts Views. 3. In the Tasks pane, select Dell Server Tasks > Get Warranty Information.
Launch Remote Desktop (Monolithic Server) NOTE: Launching remote desktop is possible only if the Windows operating system is installed and remote desktop is manually enabled on the managed system. NOTE: Remote Desktop task uses hostname to connect to the management server of a system. If the management server cannot resolve the hostname then, add the hostname and the IP address to a route to the server using its hostname that is configured on the management server.
Discovering Dell EMC Chassis devices in Dell EMC OMIMSSC Operations Manager You can discover Dell EMC chassis devices in OMIMSSC for Operations Manager by using an IP address or an IP range. To discover a chassis, provide a chassis IP address and the device type credentials of the chassis. When you are discovering chassis by using an IP range, specify an IP (IPv4) range within a subnet by including the start and end range. To discover chassis: 1.
Overriding Dell EMC Chassis discovery parameters, performance, and health metrics You can customize the discovery of Dell EMC chassis by overriding their discovery parameters, performance, and health metrics. To override discovery parameters, performance and health metrics: 1. Log in into the Operations Manager console. 2. On the left hand pane, Click Monitoring > Dell EMC > Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Views > OpenManage Integration Dashboard . The Dell EMC OMIMSSC console login page is displayed. 3.
Table 29. Monitored hardware components — Scalable and Detailed feature.
Viewing Alerts for Dell EMC Chassis Monitoring feature on the Operations Manager console To view the Chassis monitoring alerts on the Operations Manager console: 1. Launch the Operations Manager console and click Monitoring. 2. Click Dell EMC > Dell EMC Alerts Views. The following individual Alerts Views are displayed: ● Dell EMC Chassis Alerts —SNMP traps from the discovered Chassis devices are displayed.
Figure 7. Dell EMC Chassis Management Controllers Group diagram For discovered Dell EMC CMC chassis, enable slot discovery which is disabled by default to view: ● The occupied and free slot summary in the Chassis Slots Summary ● The slot-inventory details modified on CMC chassis that are reflected in the Diagram View.
Dell EMC State views This view is available for viewing the health of the Dell EMC Chassis Management Controller/OpenManage Enterprise Modular (CMC/OME-M) devices. In the Operations Manager console, click Monitoring > Dell EMC > Dell EMC State Views, the status of each Dell EMC device managed by Operations Manager on the network is displayed. Select the Dell CMC group for which you want to see the State view.
Table 30. Dell Unit Monitors for Dell EMC Chassis Monitoring feature.
NOTE: Informational alerts are turned off by default. To receive these alerts, import informational alerts management pack. Performance Collection Rules In the Operations Manager console, click Monitoring > Dell EMC > Dell EMC Performance and Power Monitoring Views > Dell EMC Chassis Performance View to view the performance information that is collected from Dell EMC Chassis. This feature is enabled by default when you choose to use or select Metrics Monitoring while overriding the performance metrics.
Dell EMC Chassis Modular Server Correlation Feature Chassis Modular Server Correlation feature supports: ● Correlation of discovered Modular Servers using the licensed or license-free monitoring feature with Chassis slots. NOTE: Dell EMC Chassis Management Controller/OpenManage Enterprise Modular (CMC/OME-M) slot discovery is disabled by default. Hence, enable CMC/OME-M slot discovery for the correlation feature to work. ● Correlation of Chassis Shared Storage components with Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers.
NOTE: To delete the imported Management packs, select Network Switches > Uninstall > Run. All the imported Management packs for the Dell network switches are deleted. Discover and classify Dell EMC Network Switch using Dell EMC OMIMSSC Operations Manager The Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager enables you to discover and classify Dell EMC Network switches such as M-Series, Z-Series, N-Series, and S-Series switches.
1. Log in to the management server as an Operations Manager administrator. 2. On the Operations Manager console, click Administration. 3. At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Discovery Wizard. 4. Run the Discovery Wizard, select Network devices and follow the instructions on the screen. For more information, see the Operations Manager documentation at technet.microsoft.com. 5. On the Add a Device console in Operations Manager, type the IP address that you want to discover. 6.
Monitored hardware components The following table provides information about the monitored hardware components that are supported in Scalable and Detailed feature: Table 34.
Viewing Diagrams on the Operations Manager console To View the diagrams for network switch monitoring feature on the Operations Manager console: 1. Launch the Operations Manager console. 2. Click Monitoring > Dell EMC > Dell EMC Diagram Views. 3. Go to the Diagram Views folder to view the following: . ● Complete Diagram View ● Dell EMC Network Switch Diagram View 4. Select any of the Diagram Views. The hierarchical and graphical representation of the network switch device is displayed. 5.
Table 35. Dell Unit Monitors for Dell EMC Network Switch Monitoring feature.
6 Appendix A—Issues and resolutions Topics: • • Issues And Resolutions Known Limitations Issues And Resolutions The following table lists the known issues, resolutions, and where the issues are applicable to. Table 36. Issues And Resolutions Issue Resolution Applicable To Discovery through iSM–WMI fails when a managed node is running Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Management server is running Operations Manager 2012 R2. Ensure that you have installed Windows Management Framework version 4.0.
Table 36. Issues And Resolutions (continued) Issue Resolution Applicable To a. Disable the Dell EMC Chassis to the Modular Blade Server Correlation Discovery object discovery. b. Disable the object discovery corresponding to the method used for discovering the modular servers.
Table 36. Issues And Resolutions (continued) Issue Resolution Applicable To In the Dell EMC Diagram View for Dell network devices, the basic attributes are not displayed for the Dell DRAC and Dell EMC chassis objects. To resolve this issue, you can view the detailed set of attributes by clicking the objects in the State View. Dell EMC Chassis Monitoring Feature Server Modules and Chassis Slot Summary Information are not visible under CMC/OME-M.
Table 36. Issues And Resolutions (continued) Issue Resolution Applicable To When there are multiple Operations Manager consoles in a Management group, the device credential profiles and jobs that are created from the Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Dashboard when launched from one Operations Manager console are not visible from the Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Dashboard when launched from an alternative Operations Manager console within the Management group.
Table 36. Issues And Resolutions (continued) Issue Resolution Applicable To Post upgrade from Dell EMC Server Management Pack Suite version 7.0 to Dell EMC OMIMSSC version 7.1 to Dell EMC OMIMSSC version 7.2, the performance metrics for servers that are discovered using licensed method and for chassis are not seen. Post upgrade, to view the performance metrics for servers discovered in detailed mode from the Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Dashboard, enable the Metrics option in Configuration page.
Table 36. Issues And Resolutions (continued) Issue Resolution Applicable To Post the OMIMSSC appliance reboot, when the discovered Dell devices are deleted from the Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Dashboard and rediscovered, the discovery job fails. Reboot the OMIMSSC appliance from the terminal console of the virtual machine. OMIMSSC appliance Known Limitations Table 37.
7 Appendix B Topics: • • Create a simple authentication run-as account Associating a Run As Account for monitoring a Dell EMC PowerEdge Server using the Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) feature Severity levels used in Dell EMC Server Management Pack suite and OMIMSSC Operations Manager Associate Run As Account task—Dell EMC Server and Rack Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) feature • • Create a simple authentication run-as account 1.
The Specify the Run As profile's general properties screen is displayed. 5. Click Next. The Run As Accounts screen is displayed. 6. Click Add. The Add a Run As Account screen is displayed. 7. Select the run as account used to discover the Dell server from the Run As Account: drop-down list. NOTE: If you are using multiple Run As Account to discover devices, associate each device with its associated Run As account. 8. Click.
8 Appendix C - Enabling External Program Tasks For tasks provided by the Dell EMC Server Management Pack Suite that launch external programs have to be installed in the default location. Create new tasks to launch the application if the program is not installed in the default location.
○ power reset (for Power Reset task) ○ identify on (for LED Identification On task) ○ identify off (for LED Identification Off task) Example: -I lanplus -H $Target/Property[Type="Dell.WindowsServer.Server"]/RemoteAccessIP$ -U root -P -k power status 8. For LED on or off tasks, enter the command-line parameters in the following format: ● Enter -ip and choose the Remote Access IP with IPMI capability from drop-down menu. ● Enter -u -p -k . 9.
9 Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site You can access the required documents in one of the following ways: ● Using the following links: ○ For Dell EMC Enterprise Systems Management, Dell EMC Remote Enterprise Systems Management, and Dell EMC Virtualization Solutions documents — https://www.dell.com/esmmanuals ○ For Dell EMC OpenManage documents — https://www.dell.com/openmanagemanuals ○ For iDRAC documents — https://www.dell.
10 Related documentation and resources This chapter gives the details of documents and references to help you work with Dell EMC Server Management Pack Suite. Topics: • • • Microsoft guidelines for performance and scalability for Operations Manager Other documents you may need Contacting Dell EMC Microsoft guidelines for performance and scalability for Operations Manager For optimal performance, deploy device-specific Server Management Pack Suite on different management servers.
2. Select your support category. 3. Verify your country or region in the Choose a Country/Region drop-down menu at the top of page. 4. Select the appropriate service or support link based on your need.
