Users Guide

iDRAC 9 Group Manager
iDRAC Group Manager feature is available for Dell's 14th generation servers to offer simplified basic management of iDRACs and
associated servers on the associated servers on the local network using the iDRAC GUI. Group Manager allows 1XMany console
experience without involving a separate application. It allows the users to view the details of a set of servers by permitting more powerful
management than by inspecting servers visually for faults and other manual methods.
Group manager is a licensed feature and part of the Enterprise license. Only iDRAC admin users can access the Group Manager
functionality.
NOTE:
For better user experience Group Manager supports up to 100 server nodes.
Topics:
• Group Manager
• Summary View
• Manage Logins
• Configure Alerts
• Export
• Discovered Servers View
• Jobs View
• Jobs Export
• Group Information Panel
• Group Settings
• Actions on a selected Server
Group Manager
To use Group Manager feature, you need to enable the Group Manager from iDRAC index page or on the Group Manager Welcome
screen. The group manager welcome screen provides options listed in the below table.
Table 31. Options in Group Manager
Option Description
Join Existing Group Allows you to join an existing group, you need to know the
GroupName and Passcode to join a specific group.
NOTE: Passwords are associated to iDRAC user
credentials. Whereas, a passcode is associated to a
group to establish authenticated device communication
between different iDRACs in the same group.
Create New Group Allows you to create a new group. The specific iDRAC which has
created the group would be the master (primary controller) of the
group.
Disable Group Manager for this System You can select this option in case you do not want to join any group
from a specific system. However, you can access Group Manager
at any point of time by selecting Open Group Manager from the
iDRAC index page. Once you disable the group manager, user
needs to wait for 60 seconds to perform any further group
manager operations.
Once the group manager feature is enabled, that iDRAC allows you the option to create or join an iDRAC local group. More than one
iDRAC group can be setup in the local network but an individual iDRAC can only be a member of one group at a time. To change group
(join a new group) the iDRAC must first leave its current group and then join the new group. The iDRAC from where the group was
created gets chosen as the primary controller of the group by default. The user does not define a dedicated group manager primary
controller to control that group. The primary controller hosts the group manager web interface and provides the GUI based work flows.
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