User's Manual

22 Server and Printer Management Pack
Tasks
• Provides Tasks for:
– Launching Server Administrator
– Launching Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC)console
– Launching Dell Printer Console
– Launching CMC and iDRAC console
– Clearing ESM log for Dell systems
• Provides Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) tasks for
Dell systems with the baseboard management controller (BMC)
Reports
Provides Reports for ESM and BMC log, windows event log, firmware and
driver version for selected server and RAID and BIOS configuration setting
based on the selected server and selected attribute.
Customizing
Allows you to customize and configure your Dell devices for discovery and
monitoring
Discovery
To discover Dell devices, the devices must appear in the Agent Managed view
under the Administration section of the Operations Console.
The default discovery and monitoring intervals for Management Pack v3.1
have been increased to six hours and one hour respectively, to reduce the
performance load on the SCOM/SCE environment. You can use overrides to
increase or decrease these intervals to the specific Dell hardware management
needs of the SCOM operator.
To add a Dell system to the Agent Managed list:
1
Log on to the system with an account that has the SCOM Administrators
role, for the SCOM 2007 SP1/SCE 2007 SP1 Management Group.
2 In the Operations Console, click Administration .
3 At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Discovery Wizard .
The
Introduction screen appears.
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