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Table Of Contents
Customizing Portals......................................................................................................................................................... 39
Displaying Additional Available Reports and Graphs..........................................................................................................39
Drilling Down Charts and Reports for More Information.............................................................................................40
Saving and Loading the Portal Layout..............................................................................................................................40
Updating the Portal Data.................................................................................................................................................. 41
Hiding Graphs and Reports Components..........................................................................................................................41
Rearranging or Resizing Graphs and Reports (Components)............................................................................................41
Filtering Data....................................................................................................................................................................42
Search Bar....................................................................................................................................................................... 42
Search Items.............................................................................................................................................................. 42
Search Drop-Down List..............................................................................................................................................43
Selection Actions........................................................................................................................................................43
Map View (Home) Portal................................................................................................................................................. 44
Viewing the User Information...........................................................................................................................................44
Logging On As a Different User........................................................................................................................................44
Using the Update Available Notification Icon....................................................................................................................45
Using the Warranty Scoreboard Notification Icon............................................................................................................ 45
4 OpenManage Essentials Home Portal — Reference..................................................... 46
Dashboard........................................................................................................................................................................46
Home Portal Reports..................................................................................................................................................46
Device by Status........................................................................................................................................................ 47
Alerts by Severity....................................................................................................................................................... 47
Discovered Versus Inventoried Devices......................................................................................................................47
Task Status................................................................................................................................................................ 48
Schedule View..................................................................................................................................................................48
Schedule View Settings..............................................................................................................................................49
Device Warranty Report...................................................................................................................................................49
Map View (Home) Portal Interface..................................................................................................................................50
5 Discovering and Inventorying Devices........................................................................... 51
Supported Devices, Protocols, and Features Matrix......................................................................................................... 51
Supported Operating Systems (Servers), Protocols, and Features Matrix.......................................................................55
Supported Storage Devices, Protocols, and Features Matrix...........................................................................................56
Legend and Definitions.....................................................................................................................................................58
Using the Discovery and Inventory Portal........................................................................................................................ 59
Protocol Support Matrix for Discovery.............................................................................................................................59
Protocol Support Matrix for System Update....................................................................................................................60
Devices Not Reporting Service Tag.................................................................................................................................. 61
Creating a Discovery and Inventory Task..........................................................................................................................61
Changing the Default SNMP Port..............................................................................................................................62
Discovering and Inventorying Dell Devices Using WS-Man Protocol With a Root Certificate.....................................63
Discovering a Chassis and its Components Using the Guided Wizard.............................................................................. 64
Excluding Ranges.............................................................................................................................................................65
Viewing Configured Discovery and Inventory Ranges...................................................................................................... 65
Scheduling Discovery.......................................................................................................................................................65
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