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Managing the Dell PowerEdge VRTX Chassis with Dell OpenManage Essentials

environment. See the OME users guide for system and operating system

requirements. OME is a two-tier application: the services tier, which does all

communication to the VRTX system, and the UI tier, which communicates to

the OME services tier. It is strongly recommended that the services tier sits

behind a firewall, along with any other remote devices OME must monitor and

manage. As mentioned before, it is recommended to have a VPN between OME

and the devices it must manage to reduce the chances of data sniffing. OME

secures communication between the UI and services using HTTP(s).

Once OME is installed, you can bring up the UI locally by double-clicking the

icon on the desktop or remotely through the URL (assuming the default port):

https://<ome_services_box_ip_address>:2607

For management setup to go quickly, you should have your network and

protocol information ready to enter from your VRTX installation. Setup

parameters include IP Address and Netmask data for your chassis and server

node(s), ICMP timeout(s), SNMP community name(s) and timeout(s) (if using

SNMP), and WS-Man credentials and timeout(s) if using WS-Man. As mentioned

before, WS-Man is recommended as the protocol for retrieving data from your

VRTX chassis and server nodes.

III. Licensing Considerations

While OME itself is free and has no licensing, both the VRTX chassis and server

nodes have their own licensing options. For the best and most complete

management experience from OME, it is recommended to purchase Enterprise

level licenses for both the server nodes and the VRTX chassis. This can be done

at the point of purchase or after. Should licenses be purchased after the point

of sale, they can be pushed out to the server nodes through the Dell License

Manager (DLM) console included with the OME install package (selection of DLM

may be required at the time of OME install). DLM has its own icon on the

desktop of the OME services box. Through DLM, licenses for the server nodes

can be imported from the local file system, and then pushed-out to their

respective nodes once those node’s iDRACs have been discovered in DLM. Note

that the VRTX chassis license is not supported by DLM at this time; the user will

need to import the VRTX license via the CMC interface.