Users Guide

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 about the supported platforms, see the iDRAC Service
Module Installation Guide at Dell.com/manuals. This is a licensed feature.
Dell EMC Server Management Pack Suite installer and OMIMSSC automatically imports the Dell EMC Server and Rack
Workstation Monitoring (Licensed) feature if the prerequisites are met.
Compare Scalable and Detailed Edition Features—iSM-WMI
The following table helps you understand the environment in which you can use the Scalable and Detailed edition features for
devices discovered through iSM-WMI. These devices are classified as Servers (iSM-WMI) in the Operations Manager console.
Table 12. Scalable Management Pack versus Detailed Management Pack
Features Scalable Edition Detailed Edition
Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers (iSM)
● Inventory up to individual
components.
● Health monitoring at server, Dell
EMC Rack Workstation, and
component group level.
● Inventory and health monitoring of
individual components.
● View metrics for power, temperature,
energy, network interface cards,
processor, memory, Compute Usage
per Second (CUPS), the PCIe SSD
wear percentage, and IO
performance metrics.
Discover and classify Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers by using DSMPS version
7.2 through iSM–WMI
The Dell EMC Server Management Pack Suite enables you to discover and classify Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers.
The following table lists the details of the hardware discovery and grouping by the Dell EMC Server and Rack Monitoring
(Licensed) feature through iSM–WMI.
Table 13. Dell Hardware discovery and grouping
Group Diagram View Hardware Type
Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers Dell EMC Monolithic Servers
Dell EMC Modular Servers
Dell EMC Sled Group
PowerEdge servers.
Dell EMC Rack Workstation Dell EMC Rack Workstation Diagram Dell Precision Rack Workstations.
Discovering Dell EMC Power Edge Servers through iSM–WMI
Ensure that the following prerequisites are met before you discover the Dell devices through iSM–WMI:
● Required version of iSM is installed on the managed node.
NOTE:
If you are monitoring devices through iSM–WMI feature on systems running Microsoft Nano server, see the
section Installing iDRAC Service Module on Nano operating system in the iDRAC Service Module Installation Guide
at Dell.com/support.
● Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) feature is enabled on the host.
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Dell EMC Server Management pack suite version 7.2 supported Monitoring features