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Managing the Dell PowerEdge VRTX Chassis with Dell OpenManage Essentials

TIP: DLM only uses the WS-Man protocol to discover and push licenses to

remote systems; when discovering systems through DLM, make sure to use the

iDRAC IP Address and not the Operating System IP Address(es).

Note: To use the new Map View feature in OME, the VRTX chassis must have an

Enterprise license. Refer to the new license report in OME to assure that your

managed chassis has an Enterprise license.

IV. Discovery / Inventory of Poweredge VRTX

If you have the Datacenter environment mentioned above, using the default

protocol timeouts and retries in OME should likely suffice; if you have a WAN

situation where there is network latency above a few hundred milliseconds,

and/or where packet reliability is questionable, then increasing the protocol

timeouts/retries might be option to consider. OME uses the ICMP (ping)

protocol to discover devices on the network, so measuring the ICMP round trip

time and packet loss and making appropriate adjustments in the OME discovery

wizard can lead to a more successful discovery, inventory, and monitoring

experience. Finding these statistics is as easy as opening a command prompt

from the OME services tier and performing a ping to the chassis and/or server

node IP Address(es).

Note: Using the WS-Man protocol with the VRTX chassis controller and the

server node’s iDRAC is strongly recommended to give the best results for

management of the VRTX solution.

TIP: If you have VRTX systems spread throughout the region or globe, you can

setup specific discovery ranges in OME for each location with their unique

latencies to optimize the retrieval of data in OME.

TIP: OME includes a troubleshooting tool, located on the desktop of the OME

services box, that can help troubleshoot any protocol problems, including

testing timeouts and credentials.

Should your VRTX systems span a WAN with non-congruent IP Address(es), it is

highly recommended that each VRTX (or cluster of VRTX) system, both chassis

and server nodes, at a location have its own discovery range instance. In OME,

it is easy to type in multiple IP Address(es) at once for a discovery range in the

discovery wizard, located at:

Manage -> Discovery and Inventory -> Add Discovery Range