Owner's Manual

26 Using the Connection
Discovering Dell Systems
During CA NSM's discovery process, systems that have Dell agents installed
are discovered, but not classified. The Connection polls all discovered
systems in the NSM database, and those systems with Dell agents installed
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:
• A green icon indicates a normal status.
• A yellow icon indicates a warning condition, such as a voltage, current,
temperature, or fan reading that has exceeded a warning threshold.
• A red icon indicates a critical alarm; the device has failed or has crossed a
failure threshold and may fail.
• A black icon indicates that the system is unavailable.
• A gray icon indicates an unknown state.
For more information on NSM's discovery process, see the CA NSM
documentation.
Classification of Dell Systems
The Connection version 3.3 classifies Dell systems into three groups under
the Dell Managed Systems group:
• DellOOB RAC
• Modular systems
• Monolithic systems
Expand DellOOB RAC to display the list of DRAC devices such as DRAC4,
DRAC5 and iDRAC6.
Expand Modular Systems to display the service tag of the chassis in
which the modular systems reside. Expand the service tag to display the
list of modular systems in the chassis. You may also see Servers,
DRAC/MC, and CMC.
Expand Monolithic Systems to display the monolithic systems. Monolithic
systems are displayed either by the system name or by the IP address.
The figure below displays a tree view of the classification.