Owner's Manual

Contents 3
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
What's New in OpenManage Connection v3.4
. . . . . . 8
Systems Management Software Supported. . . . . . . . 8
2 Using the OpenManage Connection . . . . . 9
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
OpenManage Connection Components
. . . . . . . 9
Agents and Classes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Device Class and Device Class Name . . . . . . . 10
Discovering Dell Systems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Classification of Dell Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Monitoring Dell Systems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Processing SNMP Traps From Dell Devices
. . . . . . 13
Enterprise Management (EM)
. . . . . . . . . . . 13
Event Message Formats
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Launching the Console
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
OMSA/OMSS
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
DRAC/CMC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18