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 alerts can trigger the
OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter alarms. Few alarms dened for Dell virtualization-related events can move the
managed host system to maintenance mode.
To perform monitoring:
1. Congure the Event and Alarm settings.
2. Congure 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 congure events and alarms
for each vCenter or all at once for all registered vCenters.
There are four event posting levels.
Table 2. 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.
Post all Events Post all events, including informal events, that the OpenManage
Integration for VMware vCenter receives from managed Dell
hosts into related vCenters.
Post only Critical and Warning Events Posts only events with either Critical or Warning criticality into
related vCenters.
Post only Virtualization-Related Critical and Warning Events Post Virtualization related events received from hosts into
related vCenters. Virtualization related events are those that Dell
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