Owner's Manual

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Prerequisites
Complete the following prerequisites.
Requirements for the Managing System
The following table lists the requirements for integrating the Dell OpenManage Connection on the systems where the
Netcool/OMNIbus 7.3.1 or Netcool/OMNIbus 7.4 components are installed.
Table 1. IBM Netcool/OMNIbus Component Requirements
Component Requirement Purpose
Probes Configure the MTTrapd Simple
Network Management Protocol
(SNMP) probe and the Netcool/
OMNIbus Knowledge Library (NcKL).
To receive and process the SNMP
traps sent by Dell devices.
ObjectServer Install and configure the confpack
utility.
To import Dell integration automation
triggers, tools, menus, and conversion
classes.
Desktop Make sure that the SNMP
communication between the desktop
and Dell devices is established.
To retrieve the required information
from Dell devices.
Web GUI
Install and configure the OMNIbus
web GUI and WAAPI.
Make sure that the SNMP
communication channel between the
web GUI server and the managed Dell
systems is established.
To support Dell tools available for Dell
OpenManage Connection.
To retrieve the required information
from Dell devices.
Requirements for the Managed System
The following table lists the requirements for the systems that are managed by Dell OpenManage Connection.
Table 2. Managed System Requirements
Dell Devices Requirement
Dell Servers Running Windows
• OMSA versions 6.5–7.3
• SNMP Service
Dell Servers Running Linux
• OMSA versions 6.5–7.3
• SNMP Service
Dell Servers Running ESXi
• ESXi version 4.0 U3 and later
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