Users Guide
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End-To-End Hardware Management
The goal of end-to-end hardware management is to provide the system health status and up-to-date infrastructure
information that an administrator needs to respond to critical hardware events without leaving the Dell Management
Center or vCenter. End-to-end hardware management within the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter is
divided into four separate parts:
• Monitoring
• Inventory
• Advanced host management
• Warranty retrieval
Monitoring the Datacenter And Host System
Datacenter and host system monitoring lets an administrator monitor infrastructure health by displaying hardware
(server and storage) and virtualization-related events on the Tasks & Events tab in vCenter. Additionally, critical
hardware alarms can trigger the
OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter to put the host system into a
maintenance mode, and in certain cases migrate the virtual machines to another host system. For hosts prior to Dell
PowerEdge 12th generation servers, the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter forwards OMSA alarms, and
creates new ones for specific events. You can use these alarms to trigger actions that vCenter allows, like a reboot,
maintenance mode, or migrate. For example, when a dual power supply fails and an alarm is created, the resulting
action can be to migrate the virtual machine on that machine to a new one.
To perform monitoring:
1. Configure the Event and Alarm settings.
2. Configure SNMP OMSA trap destinations, if needed.
3. Use the Tasks & Events tab in vCenter to review event information.
Understanding Events And Alarms
You can edit events and alarms from the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter within Manage → Settings tab.
From here you can select the Event Posting Level, enable Alarms for Dell Hosts, or Restore Default Alarms. You can
configure events and alarms for each vCenter or all at once for all registered vCenters.
NOTE: To receive Dell events, you must enable both alarms and events.
There are four event posting levels.
Table 1. Event Posting Level Descriptions
Event Description
Do not post any Events Do not have the OpenManage Integration for VMware
vCenter forward any events or alerts into related vCenters.
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