Users Guide

Discovering and Classifying Dell Devices

Dell OpenManage Connection for ITNM IP Edition facilitates discovery and classification of all the

supported Dell devices.

To discover and classify the supported Dell devices configure the following on Tivoli Integrated Portal

(TIP):

• Scope tab — Using full Subnet with mask or using Subnet with wildcard characters (*)

• Seed tab — Using a direct IP or subnet IP

• SNMP Password menu — Using SNMP community strings for SNMP version 1, version 2, and User-

based Security Model (USM) for SNMP version 3.

After the devices are discovered, they are displayed in the Network View and Network Hop View, along

with their details.

Discovering and Classifying Dell PowerEdge 10G to 13G

Servers

Make sure the DellServerSNMP discovery agent is enabled for discovering Dell servers running

Windows and Linux operating systems and the DellServerWsman discovery agent is enabled for servers

running VMware ESXi operating systems.

The discovered Dell servers are classified under the following class names:

• DellServerMonolithicLinux — For monolithic servers running Linux operating systems

• DellServerModularWindows — For modular servers running Windows operating systems

• DellServerModularLinux — For modular servers running Linux operating systems

• DellServerMonolithicWindows — For monolithic servers running Windows operating systems

• DellServerModularESXi — For modular servers running ESXi operating systems

• DellServerMonolithicESXi — For monolithic servers running ESXi operating systems

In the left pane on the Tivoli Integrated Portal (TIP), click Availability → Network Availability → Network

Views → Dell Managed Systems. The Dell Managed Systems pane is displayed on the right-hand side.

For more information, see Viewing Dell Devices.

NOTE: If you are discovering Dell PowerEdge servers or Dell PowerVault NX Storage Arrays running

ESXi version 5.5 or later, configure the environment variable DELL_OMC_ITNM_JAVA_PATH using

JRE version 1.6.0_18 (6u18) or later.

By default, for the 12th or later generation of Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell PowerVault NX Storage Arrays,

or Dell workstations in-band server discovery is enabled. When you use both in-band and OOB discovery

methods for those devices, they may create redundant information. You can avoid the redundant