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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Enabling a Dell Server for Server Management in vCenter
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x. Host Compliance Wizard - Summary Figure 23.
Fixing OMSA issues
When a host is selected for fixing an OMSA issue, a new OMSA package is installed or updated as
needed. To fix OMSA configuration of OMSA, a file on the Host host operating system is configured to
send SNMP traps.
Dell Management Plugin-in uses vCenter for OMSA related issue on ESXi 4.x hosts but uses SSH on classic
ESX 4.x and ESXi 5.0/5.0 Upate1.
Common failures while fixing OMSA
a.1. Host is down
b.2. SSH is disabled for ESX 4.x and ESXi (5.0, 5.0 U1)
c.3. PasswordAuthentication=no in the SSH Configuration file on ESXi (5.0, 5.0 U1)
d.4. Network latency for OMSA configuration.
Fixing CSIOR issues
CSIOR is an iDRAC feature, which needs to be ON to collect the hardware information. When a host is
selected for fixing CSIOR issues, this feature is turned ON. Sometimes, CSIOR may already be ON and
simply needs the host to reboot. This is indicated in CSIOR status as “On - Reboot Required”. To fix