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Using the Connection
DellOpenManage™ConnectionforCAUnicenter
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User's Guide Version 3.2
Overview
Connection Components
Discovering Dell Systems
Managing Dell Systems
Event Management
Troubleshooting
Overview
ToenhancethemanagementcapabilitiesthatyoucanperformonDell™systems,DellOpenManageConnectionforComputerAssociates(CA)Unicenter®
(hereafterreferredtoastheConnection)integratesasuiteofsystemsmanagementapplications.
Connection Components
The Distributed State Machine (DSM), WorldView (WV), and Event Management (EM) Connection components perform the following tasks:
l DSM: Discovers and monitor agents; formats traps for agents.
l WV: Provides launch points for systems management applications and displays subsystem status.
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l EM: Contains message records for Remote Access Controllers (RACs).
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DSM and WV Classes
Table 1. DSM and WV Agents and Class Names 
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Discovering Dell Systems
During CA Unicenter's discovery process, systems that have Dell agents installed are discovered, but not classified. The Connection will poll all discovered
systems in the Unicenter database, and those systems with Dell agents installed will respond with the health status information.
The DSM and WV components proactively poll each agent and change the color of the icon to indicate the status of the agent:
l A green icon indicates a normal status.
l A yellow icon indicates a warning condition, such as a voltage, current, temperature, or fan reading that has exceeded a warning threshold.
l A red icon indicates a critical alarm; the device has failed or has crossed a failure threshold and may fail.
l A black icon indicates that the system is unavailable.
l A gray icon indicates an unknown state.
For more information on Unicenter's discovery process, see the CA Unicenter documentation.
DSM Agents
DSM Class Names for Discovering and Monitoring
Agents
Server Administrator
ServerAdministrator
Array Manager
ArrayManager
Server Agent
ServerAgent
Server Instrumentation Trap Handler
ServerInst
RAC
DellRemoteAccess
DRAC II
DellDrac2
NAS Manager
DellNas
WV Agents
WV Class Names for Launching Systems
Management Applications and Displaying
Subsystem Status
Server Administrator
ServerAdministrator.wvc
Array Manager
arrayManager.wvc
Server Agent
ServerAgent.wvc
RAC
DellRemoteAccess.wvc
DRAC II
DellDrac2.wvc
NAS Manager
DellNas.wvc