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Managing the Dell PowerEdge VRTX Chassis with Dell OpenManage Essentials
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You can also group these IP Address(es) into a discovery range group by using
the Add Discovery Range Group Task at the same location in the UI. Should you
have reliable DNS services and/or using DHCP to assign IP Address(es) to your
managed devices, using hostnames instead of IP Address(es) is also allowed.
The hostnames/IP Address(es) of the CMC, server node iDRACs, and server node
Operating Systems can all be entered, if desired.
TIP: For a server node, if the Dell OMSA agent is not installed, using the WMI
protocol for Windows and SSH protocol for Linux are the best choices for OME
to communicate to the respective Operating Systems. OME can even push the
OMSA agent to the server after discovery of the operating system; however,
pushing the agent is not recommended for networks with limited bandwidth. It
is not required to discover the Operating System nor have OMSA installed to
manage the VRTX solution in most cases (assuming management occurs with
the iDRAC).
See Figure 1 for an example of the VRTX CMC and server node IP Addresses
grouped together into the Austin_VRTX group. If all IP Address(es) in the group
use the same protocol settings and credentials, it can save time to group IP
Address(es) together in a discovery range group; later, should the credentials
need to be changed, they can be updated for all IP Address(es) in the group by
just changing it once.
Figure 1: Grouping IP Address(es) into one discovery range group called
Austin_VRTX