Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise-Modular Edition for PowerEdge MX7000 Chassis User's Guide
- Contents
- Overview
- Updating firmware for PowerEdge MX solution
- MX7000 Solution Baselines
- Upgrading ethernet switch using DUP
- OME-Modular licenses
- Logging in to OME-Modular
- Logging in to OME–Modular as local, Active Directory, or LDAP user
- Logging in to OME-Modular using OpenID Connect
- OME-Modular home page
- Viewing device health
- Setting up chassis
- Initial configuration
- Configuring chassis settings
- Managing chassis
- Chassis groups
- 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
- 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
- Managing Profiles
- Managing storage
- Managing templates
- Managing identity pools
- Ethernet IO Modules
- MX Scalable Fabric architecture
- SmartFabric Services
- Managing networks
- Managing Fibre Channel IOMs
- Managing firmware
- Monitoring alerts and logs
- Monitoring audit logs
- Use case scenarios
- Troubleshooting
- Storage
- Firmware update is failing
- Storage assignment is failing
- SAS IOM status is downgraded
- SAS IOM health is downgraded
- Drives on compute sled are not visible
- Storage configuration cannot be applied to SAS IOMs
- Drives in OpenManage are not visible
- iDRAC and OpenManage drive information do not match
- The assignment mode of storage sled is unknown
- Unable to access OME-Modular using Chassis Direct
- Troubleshooting lead chassis failure
- Storage
- Recommended slot configurations for IOMs
- Upgrading networking switch using different OS10 DUP versions
- Upgrading networking switch using CLI
New in this release
This release of OME-Modular supports:
● Group configuration option on the Home page in multichassis environment.
● Profiles menu to create, assign, edit, and redeploy profiles with identities separately from templates.
● Editing templates.
● Advanced license for:
○ Chassis telemetry for power, thermal, and fans. For more information, see the OpenManage Enterprise Modular Edition
RESTful API Guide.
○ OpenID Connect Provider for delegated authentication.
● Redfish alert forwarding. For more information, see the OpenManage Enterprise Modular Edition RESTful API Guide.
● Ethernet IOM switch replacement wizard for easy replacement of faulty fabric switches.
● L2 Multicast in SmartFabric Services.
● LCD enhancement using PIN entry to unlock emergency access to local actions such as chassis power off.
● Reminder to select backup chassis.
● Same SSO login session sharing in tabs and not counting against the limit on number of sessions.
● Fabric creation progress banner.
● OS10 DUP to be posted in the validated stack catalog.
● Link to Release Notes from the info icon on the Compliance Report page.
● Displaying pre-requisites and dependencies for components in compliance report.
● Automatic restoration of configuration to Right Control Panel (RCP) on replacement. For more information, see the Dell
EMC PowerEdge MX7000 Enclosure Field Service Manual.
1.20.10
This release of OME-Modular supports:
● Added support for Quad-Port Ethernet adapters in up to 5 MX7000 chassis in a Scalable Fabric
● Increased the VLAN scale for SmartFabric services
● Additional topologies for Fabric Expander Module connectivity
● Added a compliance status Unknown in the Compliance Report. The Unknown status highlights the component or device
firmware that is missing from the catalog and must be compared manually for compliance.
1.20.00
This release of OME-Modular supports:
● Deploying templates on empty slots or slots that compute sleds occupy.
● Reclaiming MAC identities after removing profiles that are associated with blade servers.
● Synchronizing VLAN definitions of OME-Modular and OpenManage Enterprise.
● Alert notifications when a chassis is onboarded.
● Configuring Forward Error Correction (FEC) for SmartFabric.
● Propagating VLANs without server reboot.
● Deploying operating system using Boot to ISO after applying profile.
● Enhancements to Uplink Failure Detection.
● 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:
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