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1 Chassis Health

Starting with version 2.1, the Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter presents

information about the chassis to the VMware vSphere web client.

After inventorying a chassis, additional information about the chassis is displayed in the Dell

Chassis object list, and the chassis information pages are now populated with the valid

information. This includes the overall and individual component health of the Chassis.

To view this information in vSphere web client, click on vCenter link from the Home page, and

select Dell Chassis link in the left side pane. Click on a chassis displayed in the tree structure.

1.1 Chassis Summary Page

If you click once or double-click on a chassis, the chassis information page for the selected chassis

is displayed. The Summary page contains an overview of health, licensing, and warranty

information, followed by a list of any active errors. Further, after the active error, additional

information about chassis health and the health of each component of chassis are displayed.

1.1.1 Chassis Overall Health

The Chassis health displayed on the top of the Summary page shows the overall health of the

chassis. Overall Chassis Health will report the worst case health of the Chassis components.

Figure 1 Chassis overall health

1.1.2 Chassis Individual Component Health

Detailed health details are displayed for the following Chassis components:

 Main Board

 KVM

 Blower

 Storage

 I/O Cable

 DVD

 Switch

 Fan

 Server

 FPC Cable

 CMC

 Power Supply

Note : Only the components that are present in the chassis are listed for individual health

component. For Example, if no KVM modules are present in a chassis, it will not be listed.

Each Chassis component can have its health as

Normal, Warning, Critical

. Figure 2 shows how the

individual Chassis component health would be displayed. The last column, depicted by a slash on

a gray background lists components that are not installed. For example, the chassis supports 6

switches, but only 2 are installed. Therefore, 4 are listed as "Not Present."