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Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise-Modular Edition for PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis User's Guide
Contents
Overview
- Key features
- New in this release
- Supported platforms
- Supported web browsers
- Other documents you may need
- Accessing documents from Dell support site
- Positioning OME-Modular with other Dell EMC applications
Updating firmware for PowerEdge MX solution
- MX7000 Solution Baselines
- Upgrading ethernet switch using DUP
OME-Modular licenses
- Importing licenses
- Viewing license details
Logging in to OME-Modular
- Logging in to OME–Modular as local, Active Directory, or LDAP user
  - Integrating directory services in OME-Modular
  - Adding Active Directory service
  - Adding LDAP service
  - Logging in to OME–Modular using the directory user credentials
  - Importing active directory and LDAP user groups
- Logging in to OME-Modular using OpenID Connect
  - Adding OpenID Connect Provider
  - Editing OpenID Connect Provider
  - Enabling OpenID Connect Provider
  - Disabling OpenID Connect Provider
  - Deleting OpenID Connect Provider
- OME-Modular home page
  - Search feature in OME-Modular
  - Viewing alerts
  - Viewing jobs and activities
  - Multi-chassis management dashboard
- Viewing device health
- Setting up chassis
- Initial configuration
- Configuring chassis settings
  - Configure chassis power
  - Configure chassis management network
  - Configure chassis network services
    - Configuring OME-Modular to use command line consoles
      - OME-Modular command line console features
      - OME-Modular command line commands
  - Configure local access
    - Chassis Direct
  - Configure chassis location
  - Configure Quick Deploy settings
- Managing chassis
  - Creating chassis filters
  - Viewing chassis overview
  - Wiring chassis
- Chassis groups
  - Prerequisites for creating a wired group
  - Creating chassis groups
  - Edit chassis groups
  - Delete groups
  - MCM dashboard
- Controlling chassis power
- Backing up chassis
- Restoring chassis
- Exporting chassis profiles
- Managing chassis failover
- Troubleshooting in chassis
- Blinking LEDs
- Interfaces to access OME-Modular
- Viewing chassis hardware
  - Chassis slot details
- Viewing chassis alerts
- Viewing chassis hardware logs
- Configuring OME–Modular
  - Viewing current configuration
  - Configuring users and user settings
  - Configuring login security settings
  - Configuring alerts
Managing compute sleds
- Viewing compute overview
- Configuring compute settings
  - Configuring compute network settings
    - Configuring compute management settings
- Replacing compute sleds
- Viewing compute hardware
- Viewing compute firmware
- Viewing compute hardware logs
- Viewing compute alerts
Managing Profiles
- Creating Profile
- Viewing Profile
- Editing Profile
  - Rename Profile
  - Edit Profile
- Assigning Profile
- Unassigning Profile
- Redeploying Profile
- Migrating Profile
- Deleting Profile
Managing storage
- Storage overview
- Viewing hardware details
- Assigning drives to a compute sled
- Assigning storage enclosure to a compute sled
- Replacing storage sleds
- Updating enclosure firmware
  - Updating the firmware using DUP
  - Updating the firmware using catalog-based compliance
- Downgrading storage enclosure firmware
- Managing SAS IOMs
Managing templates
- Viewing template details
- Creating templates
  - Importing templates
- Editing templates
- Cloning templates
- Exporting templates
- Deleting templates
- Editing template networks
- Deploying templates
  - Deploying templates from Template Details page
Managing identity pools
- Creating identity pools
- Viewing identity pools
- Editing identity pools
- Exporting identity pools
- Deleting identity pools
Ethernet IO Modules
- Viewing hardware details
- Configuring IOM settings
MX Scalable Fabric architecture
- Recommended physical topology
- Restrictions and guidelines
- Recommended connection order
SmartFabric Services
- Guidelines for operating in SmartFabric mode
- SmartFabric network topologies
- Switch to switch cabling
- Upstream network switch requirements
- NIC teaming restrictions
- OS10 CLI commands available in SmartFabric mode
- Fabrics Overview
- Viewing topology details
- Viewing Multicast VLANs
- VLANs for SmartFabric and FCoE
Managing networks
- SmartFabric VLAN management and automated QoS
- Defining networks
- Editing VLANs
- Exporting VLANs
- Importing VLANs
- Deleting VLANs
Managing Fibre Channel IOMs
Managing firmware
- Managing catalogs
  - Viewing catalogs
  - Adding catalogs
- Creating baselines
- Editing baselines
- Checking compliance
- Updating firmware
- Rolling back firmware
- Deleting firmware
Monitoring alerts and logs
- Alert log
- Alert policies
- Alert definitions
  - Filtering alert definitions
Monitoring audit logs
- Filtering audit logs
- Exporting audit logs
- Monitoring jobs
Use case scenarios
- Assigning backup to the MCM Lead
  - Creating chassis group with backup lead
  - Monitoring the MCM group
- Scenarios when backup lead can take over as lead chassis
  - Disaster recovery of lead chassis
  - Retiring lead chassis
Troubleshooting
- Storage
- Unable to access OME-Modular using Chassis Direct
- Troubleshooting lead chassis failure
Recommended slot configurations for IOMs
- Supported slot configurations for IOMs
Creating validated firmware solution baseline using Dell Repository Manager
Upgrading networking switch using different OS10 DUP versions
- Upgrading networking switch to 10.5.0.7 or 10.5.0.9 using DUP
- Prerequisites for upgrading from versions earlier than 10.5.0.5
- Prerequisites for upgrading from 10.5.0.5
Upgrading networking switch using CLI

● Enabling racadm connect to Brocade MXG610s.

● Performing Hard Reset only on iDRAC instead of whole sled.

● Setting Name field as the default sort order in device grids.

● Enhanced alert pop-ups to appear on the upper right corner of the user interface.

● New SmartFabric Uplink type—Ethernet - No Spanning Tree.

● Reduction in alert volumes API to replace failed Ethernet switch Autodetection of Scalable Fabric expansion from one to two

chassis.

1.10.20

This release of OME-Modular supports:

● Customization of chassis backup file name.

● Customization of host operating system reboot if a template deployment fails.

● Hard reset of slot-based iDRAC interface from the Chassis Slots page.

● Updating MX7000 components.

1.10.00

This release of OME-Modular supports:

● Group management through LCD.

● Assigning member chassis in MCM as backup chassis and promoting backup chassis as lead chassis.

● Configuring hot spare for the chassis.

● Accessing chassis using USB.

● Customizing strings that are displayed on the chassis LCD.

● Configuring network session inactivity timeout.

● Extracting logs to a local drive on your system.

● Downloading the Management Information Base (MIB) file to a local drive on your system.

1.00.10

This release of OME-Modular supports:

● Twenty chassis in a multichassis management (MCM) group.

● Editing VLANs that are already deployed to a server, using a template.

● Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 standards. For details, see certificate #2861 at csrc.nist.gov/

projects/cryptographic-module-validation-program/Certificate/2861.

Supported platforms

OME - Modular supports the following platforms and components:

Platforms:

● PowerEdge MX7000

● PowerEdge MX740c

● PowerEdge MX750c

● PowerEdge MX840c

● PowerEdge MX5016s

● PowerEdge MX5000s SAS Switch

● PowerEdge MX 25 Gb Ethernet Pass-Through Module

● MX 10GBASE-T Ethernet Pass-Through Module

● Dell EMC MX9116n Fabric Switching Engine

● Dell EMC MX5108n Ethernet Switch

● Dell EMC MX7116n Fabric Expander Module

● Dell EMC MXG610s Fibre Channel Switching Module

Overview