Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell OpenManage Essentials Version 2.2 User's Guide
- About OpenManage Essentials
- Installing OpenManage Essentials
- Installation Prerequisites and Minimum Requirements
- Terms and Conditions for Using Relational Database Management Systems
- Minimum Login Roles for Microsoft SQL Server
- Database Size and Scalability
- Downloading OpenManage Essentials
- Installing OpenManage Essentials
- Setting Up OpenManage Essentials Database on a Remote SQL Server
- Retargeting the OpenManage Essentials Database
- Installing OpenManage Essentials on a Domain Controller
- Installing OpenManage Essentials on a Domain Controller With a Remote Database
- Installing OpenManage Essentials on a Domain Controller With a Local Database
- Adding Users to the OpenManage Essentials User Groups
- Enabling SQL Server and Windows Authentication Mode in SQL Server
- Verifying SQL Server TCP/IP Status
- Installing Dell SupportAssist
- Installing Repository Manager
- Installing Dell License Manager
- Setting Up and Configuring VMware ESXi 5
- Upgrading OpenManage Essentials
- Uninstalling OpenManage Essentials
- Migrating IT Assistant to OpenManage Essentials
- Getting Started With OpenManage Essentials
- Launching OpenManage Essentials
- Configuring OpenManage Essentials
- Discovery Wizard Configuration
- Configuring Discovery Settings
- Using the OpenManage Essentials Home Portal
- OpenManage Essentials Heading Banner
- Customizing Portals
- Displaying Additional Available Reports and Graphs
- Saving and Loading the Portal Layout
- Updating the Portal Data
- Hiding Graphs and Reports Components
- Rearranging or Resizing Graphs and Reports (Components)
- Filtering Data
- Search Bar
- Map View (Home) Portal
- Viewing the User Information
- Logging On As a Different User
- Using the Update Available Notification Icon
- Using the Warranty Scoreboard Notification Icon
- OpenManage Essentials Home Portal — Reference
- Discovering and Inventorying Devices
- Supported Devices, Protocols, and Features Matrix
- Supported Operating Systems (Servers), Protocols, and Features Matrix
- Supported Storage Devices, Protocols, and Features Matrix
- Legend and Definitions
- Using the Discovery and Inventory Portal
- Protocol Support Matrix for Discovery
- Protocol Support Matrix for System Update
- Devices Not Reporting Service Tag
- Creating a Discovery and Inventory Task
- Discovering a Chassis and its Components Using the Guided Wizard
- Excluding Ranges
- Viewing Configured Discovery and Inventory Ranges
- Scheduling Discovery
- Scheduling Inventory
- Configuring Status Polling Frequency
- Task Pop-Up Notifications
- Discovery And Inventory — Reference
- Discovery and Inventory Portal Page Options
- Discovery and Inventory Portal
- Viewing Device Summary
- Add Discovery Range
- Discovery Configuration
- Device Type Filtering
- ICMP Configuration
- SNMP Configuration
- WMI Configuration
- Storage Configuration
- WS-Man Configuration
- SSH Configuration
- IPMI Configuration
- Discovery Range Action
- Summary
- Add Exclude Range
- Discovery Schedule
- Inventory Schedule
- Status Schedule
- Discovery Ranges
- Exclude Ranges
- Managing Devices
- Viewing Devices
- Viewing Device Inventory
- Viewing Alerts Summary
- Viewing System Event Logs
- Searching for Devices
- Creating a New Group
- Adding Devices to a New Group
- Adding Devices to an Existing Group
- Hiding a Group
- Deleting a Group
- Single Sign-On
- Creating a Custom URL
- Configuring Warranty Email Notifications
- Configuring Warranty Scoreboard Notifications
- Configuring Warranty Pop-Up Notifications
- Using Map View
- Map Providers
- Configuring Map Settings
- General Navigation and Zooming
- Home View
- Tool Tip
- Selecting a Device on Map View
- Health and Connection Status
- Multiple Devices at the Same Location
- Setting a Home View
- Viewing All Map Locations
- Adding a Device to the Map
- Moving a Device Location Using the Edit Location Details Option
- Importing Licensed Devices
- Using the Map View Search Bar
- Removing All Map Locations
- Editing a Map Location
- Removing a Map Location
- Exporting All Device Locations
- Dell PowerEdge FX Chassis View
- Support For PowerEdge FX Chassis Sleds
- VLAN Configuration Management
- Dell NAS Appliance Support
- OEM Device Support
- Devices — Reference
- Deployment and Re-provisioning
- OpenManage Essentials — Server Configuration Management License
- Device Requirements for Deployment and Compliance Tasks
- Getting Started for Device Configuration Deployment
- Overview of Bare Metal Deployment
- Viewing the Deployment Portal
- Configuring the Deployment File Share
- Creating a Device Configuration Template
- Adding Devices to the Repurpose and Bare Metal Devices Group
- Managing Device Configuration Templates
- Deploying a Device Configuration Template (Bare Metal Deployment)
- Deploying IOA Configuration Template
- Deploying a Network ISO Image
- Removing Devices From the Repurpose and Bare Metal Devices Group
- Auto Deploying Device Configurations
- Importing Device Specific Attributes
- Import File Requirements
- Exporting Device Specific Attributes
- Viewing the Deployment Tasks
- Managing the Virtual I/O Identities of a Server (Stateless Deployment)
- Overview of Stateless Deployment
- Virtual I/O Pools
- Compute Pools
- Creating a Compute Pool
- Deploying a Device Configuration Template (Stateless Deployment)
- Automatic Locking of a Compute Pool
- Unlocking a Compute Pool
- Editing the Definitions of a Compute Pool
- Viewing the Definitions of a Compute Pool
- Removing a Server From a Compute Pool
- Renaming a Compute Pool
- Deleting a Compute Pool
- Replacing a Server
- Reclaiming Deployed Virtual I/O Identities of a Server
- Reclaiming Assigned Virtual I/O Identities
- Setting Up Device Configuration Auto Deployment (Stateless Deployment)
- Viewing the Profile (Last Deployed Attributes)
- Known Limitations for Stateless Deployment
- Additional Information
- Deployment – Reference
- Icons and Descriptions
- Repurpose and Bare Metal Devices
- Auto Deployment
- Tasks
- Task Execution History
- Device Configuration Template Details
- IOA VLAN Attributes
- Device Configuration Setup Wizard
- Create Template Wizard
- Create Virtual I/O Pool Wizard
- Virtual I/O Pools
- Virtual I/O Pool Summary
- Create Compute Pool Wizard
- Compute Pool Summary
- Compute Pool Details
- Server Details
- Deploy Template Wizard
- Setup Auto Deployment Wizard
- Manage Auto Deployment Credentials
- Replace Server Wizard
- Reclaim Identities Wizard
- Managing Server Configuration Baseline
- Viewing the Device Compliance Portal
- Getting Started for Device Configuration Compliance
- Device Configuration Compliance Overview
- Configuring the Credentials and Device Configuration Inventory Schedule
- Associating Target Devices to a Configuration Template
- Viewing the Device Configuration Inventory
- Viewing the Device Compliance Status
- Viewing the Compliance Tasks
- Configuration – Reference
- Viewing Inventory Reports
- Reports — Reference
- Server Inventory Reports
- Agent and Alert Summary
- Agent Health Status
- Server Overview
- Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) Information
- Hard Drive Information
- iDRAC Performance Minimum/Maximum
- iDRAC Performance Average/Peak
- Memory Information
- Modular Enclosure Information
- NIC Information
- PCI Device Information
- Processor Information
- Storage Controller Information
- Virtual Disk Information
- Server Configuration Reports
- Warranty & License Reports
- Virtualization Reports
- Asset Reports
- Server Inventory Reports
- Viewing Warranty Reports
- Managing Alerts
- Alerts — Reference
- Updating Server BIOS, Firmware, Drivers, and Applications
- Viewing the System Update Page
- Understanding Server BIOS Firmware and Drivers Sources
- Choosing the Right Source for Updates
- Selecting an Update Catalog Source
- Viewing Comparison Results
- System Update Use Case Scenarios
- Applying System Updates Using the Non-Compliant Systems Tab
- Applying System Updates Using the System Update Task Wizard
- Updating Firmware, BIOS, and Drivers Without OMSA
- View Active Catalog
- Issues and Resolutions Use Case Scenarios
- Configuring the Settings for Automatic Purging of Downloaded Files
- System Update — Reference
- Managing Remote Tasks
- Remote Tasks — Reference
- Managing Security Settings
- Troubleshooting
- OpenManage Essentials Troubleshooting Tool
- Troubleshooting Procedures
- Troubleshooting Inventory
- Troubleshooting Device Discovery
- Troubleshooting Receiving SNMP Traps
- Troubleshooting Discovery of Windows Server 2008–Based Servers
- Troubleshooting SNMP Traps for ESX or ESXi Versions 3.5, 4.x, or 5.0
- Troubleshooting Problems With Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Troubleshooting Map View
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Managing Device Group Permissions
- OpenManage Mobile Settings
- Settings — Reference
- Logs — Reference
- Dell Solutions
- Right-Click Actions
- Tutorials
- Using OpenManage Essentials Command Line Interface
- Launching the OpenManage Essentials Command Line Interface
- Creating a Discovery Profile Input File
- Specifying IPs, Ranges, or Host names Using XML or CSV Files
- Specifying Input Files in PowerShell
- Command Line Interface Commands
- Creating a Discovery Range
- Removing a Discovery Range
- Creating a Discovery Range Group
- Removing a Discovery Range Group
- Editing a Discovery Range
- Editing a Discovery Range Group
- Enabling a Discovery Range or Discovery Range Group
- Disabling a Discovery Range or Discovery Range Group
- Creating a Discovery Exclude Range
- Removing a Discovery Exclude Range
- Running Discovery, Inventory, and Status Polling Tasks
- Removing a Device
- Retrieving the Status Execution Progress of a Discovery Range
- Stopping a Running Discovery Range or Group
- Creating a Custom Device Group
- Adding Devices to a Custom Group
- Deleting a Group
1. Optional: Click Assign Identities to assign virtual I/O identities from the virtual I/O pool.
2. On the Results prompt, click OK. The Identity Assignments tab is displayed.
m. (For IOA VLAN configuration deployment only) Click the IOA VLAN Attributes tab to edit the IOA VLAN attributes for the
selected template.
n. Select the Deploy check box for the attributes that you want to deploy.
o. Type the values for the tagged VLANs and untagged VLAN.
p. Click Save.
q. Click Next.
8. On the Set Schedule page:
a. Select either Run now, or click the calendar icon and select the date and time you want to run the task.
b. Under Execution Credentials, type the credentials of the iDRAC that have Administrator privileges.
c. (Only for IOA VLAN configuration deployment) Under IOA Credentials, type the credentials that have Administrator
privileges on the IOA.
d. Click Next.
9. On the Preview page:
a. Optional: Click Preview to verify if the attributes of the device configuration template will be deployed successfully on the
target devices.
b. Click Next.
10. On the Summary page, review the information that you have provided, and then click Finish.
The Deploy Template warning is displayed.
11. If you want to continue the deployment, click Yes.
The Deploy Template task is created and the task runs based on the schedule you have selected. You can double-click the task in
Task Execution History to view the task execution details. After the deployment is completed successfully, the template deployed
icon and the text, Deployed, are displayed along with the device name in the compute pool.
NOTE: On stateless deployment for FCoE protocol, the first octet for WWNN will be 20:00 and the first octet for the
WWPN will be 20:01. The remaining octets will be the same as the virtual FIP MAC address.
Related links
OpenManage Essentials — Server Configuration Management License
Device Requirements for Deployment and Compliance Tasks
Compute Pools
Automatic Locking of a Compute Pool
Automatic Locking of a Compute Pool
After the first successful deployment of any server in a compute pool, the compute pool is automatically locked. When a compute
pool is locked, the associated device configuration template and the virtual I/O pool are also locked. A lock icon is displayed in
the user interface to indicate that the resource is locked. Locking of the compute pool ensures that all servers in the pool utilize the
same device configuration template and virtual I/O pool. You can only perform the following on a locked compute pool:
• View the definitions of the compute pool
• Add or remove servers from the compute pool
• Deploy servers that are members of the compute pool
NOTE: If you want to use a locked device configuration template for other purposes, you can clone and use the device
configuration template.
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