User's Manual

Introduction 7
Introduction
This guide is for system administrators who use the Dell™ Management Pack for Microsoft
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Operations Manager (MOM) to monitor and manage Dell systems with MOM, a comprehensive
network monitoring application.
With the Management Pack integration into the MOM environment, you can assess, respond to,
and ensure the availability of your Dell systems. The Management Pack also allows you to monitor
and manage your hardware with a single systems management solution.
The Management Pack provides a list of Dell-specific views that you can use to observe the system
status in a network. The status is based on alerts that are generated when an event is received from
the Microsoft Windows
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operating system event log.
NOTICE: The procedures in this guide are designed for persons with knowledge and experience using
Microsoft Windows and MOM. Due to the possibility of data corruption and/or data loss, Dell recommends
that only those persons use the procedures described in this guide.
Features
• Displays alerts for events generated from Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator (including the
enhanced Storage Management Service) and Dell OpenManage Array Manager for
Dell PowerEdge™ systems
• Provides Tasks, State Views, Topology Views, and Computers and Groups View
• Uses the event processing rules provided with the Management Pack to prevent or reduce costly
downtime and resolve problems quickly and more efficiently
• Provides a Web link for launching Server Administrator in the alert description field of all Dell alerts
• Provides a Web link for launching the Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC) in the alert
description field of all Dell alerts
• Groups PowerEdge systems and Dell PowerVault™ network attached storage (NAS) systems
running Server Administrator so that the systems are easily identifiable and manageable
• Groups Dell computers that do not have Server Administrator installed and displays a warning alert
• Provides Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) tasks for Dell servers with the
baseboard management controller (BMC)
• Provides Dell server information as tooltips