Owner's Manual

Configuring Discovery and Inventory Settings 51
Point to Note
• If you have to delete a virtual machine, modular system, or a cluster
displayed in the
All Devices tree, first delete the devices under the group
and then delete the group. Remove the group from the discovery range
too; other wise, the group is displayed after every discovery cycle.
Resource Manager
The Resource Manager page contains two Web parts on the right hand pane
of the screen.
The Item Property Summary Web part contains general information about
the discovered device.
The Dell Agent Health Status Web part displays all agents associated with a
device. This Web part provides status on management agents, such as Server
Administrator, Storage Management, and Remote Access Controller. The
SNMP or WMI protocol is used to retrieve this information.
The agent health status is driven by events generated by the monitor solution.
for more information, see “Monitoring and Alerting.” After discovery, the
resource manager displays the status of the discovered agents. If the monitor
solution initiates an alert originating from one or more monitored agents, the
agent status changes to Critical, Warning, or Undetermined.
NOTE: Not all agents are available on all devices. For example, if Storage
Management Service Remote Access Controllers are not installed on a system,
agent information about the components are not displayed. Absence of agents
indicates that the appropriate software is either not installed or the hardware is not
properly enabled.
Also, different device types display different agents.
The status of the agent is directly related to health type alerts received for the
device being monitored. For example, if the Primary Health for a device is
displayed as warning or critical, a corresponding health alert is displayed in the
Event Console Web part.
Event Console reduces the need to maintain separate tools to monitor
systems, software, printers, and other devices. Event Console collects SNMP
traps and other status messages and displays them in a single location.
All status messages are converted to a common format that links each
received message to the affected resource in the Dell Management
Console database. These formatted messages are called alerts.
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