Users Guide

Discovering and classifying Dell devices

Dell OpenManage Connection for ITNM IP Edition facilitates discovery and classification of all the

supported Dell devices.

To discover and classify the supported Dell devices configure the following on Tivoli Integrated Portal

(TIP):

• Scope tab — Using full Subnet with mask or using Subnet with wildcard characters (*)

• Seed tab — Using a direct IP or subnet IP

• SNMP Password menu — Using SNMP community strings for SNMP version 1, version 2, and User-

based Security Model (USM) for SNMP version 3.

After the devices are discovered, they are displayed in the Network View and Network Hop View, along

with their details.

Discovering and classifying Dell OEM servers

To discover Dell OEM servers, ensure that the DellServerSNMP discovery agent is enabled for

discovering Dell servers running Windows and Linux operating systems and the

DellServerWsman

discovery agent is enabled for servers running VMware ESXi operating systems.

The discovered Dell OEM devices are classified under the following class names:

• ESXi Servers — For OEM servers running ESXi operating systems

• Linux Servers — For OEM servers running Linux operating systems

• Modular Servers — For OEM modular servers running Linux operating systems

• Monolithic Servers — For OEM monolithic servers running Linux operating systems

• Windows Servers — For OEM servers running Windows operating systems

In the left pane on the Tivoli Integrated Portal (TIP), click Availability → Network Availability → Network

Views

→ Dell OEM Devices → Servers. The Servers pane is displayed on the right-hand side. For more

information, see Viewing Dell devices.

NOTE: If you are discovering Dell OEM servers running ESXi version 5.5 or later, configure the

environment variable DELL_OMC_ITNM_JAVA_PATH using JRE version 1.6.0_18 (6u18) or later.

By default, in-band server discovery is enabled. When you use both in-band and OOB discovery methods

for OEM devices, they may create redundant information. You can avoid the redundant information by

disabling the in-band discovery. The discovery can be controlled using a configured value. The discovery

and classification is based on the values:

• Enable