User's Manual

Using the Dell™ Management Pack for Microsoft
®
Operations Manager 21
Using the Dell™ Management Pack for
Microsoft
®
Operations Manager
Getting Started
Before you start using the Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), it is
important to understand the following points:
• To monitor and manage a Dell system, it must be displayed as a managed system. To view the
managed system in the MOM 2005 or MOM 2005 SP1 console, the system must be displayed as a
managed system under
Microsoft Operations Manager → Administration → Computers . Select the
Agent Managed Computers view. This view displays all managed systems.
• Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator must be installed on all Dell-managed systems to
identify those systems as Dell systems using the Management Pack.
• Grouping of Dell systems is based only on the Server Administrator registry key entry in the
Microsoft Windows
®
registry database.
• Grouping of Dell Systems - Server Administrator Required is based on the BIOS manufacturer
and Server Administrator registry key entry in the Windows registry database.
• Different Computer Groups are created to group all Dell systems with Server Administrator and
Dell systems without Server Administrator.
• One-to-one systems management functionality is provided through Server Administrator. When
you receive an alert, a launch point is provided to the Web-based Server Administrator console.
• Host names must resolve on the network to be able to launch Server Administrator. Launching
Server Administrator is based on the system name and not on the system’s IP address.
• The event processing rules are provided for Server Administrator (including the enhanced Storage
Management Service) and Dell OpenManage Array Manager warning and critical events only.
Informational events are not processed.
• For receiving alerts from the storage subsystem, you must have installed either Array Manager or
the Server Administrator enhanced Storage Management Service.
• The informational events processing rules are processed for state monitoring alerts only.
• Unique processing rule names for each specific rule are provided to avoid name conflicts.