Users Guide

About events and alarms for hosts................................................................................................................................... 70
About events and alarms for chassis................................................................................................................................. 71
Viewing chassis events.................................................................................................................................................. 71
Viewing chassis alarms...................................................................................................................................................71
Virtualization-related events............................................................................................................................................... 71
Proactive HA events........................................................................................................................................................... 78
Viewing alarms and events setting....................................................................................................................................79
Viewing events.....................................................................................................................................................................79
Hardware component health—Proactive HA..................................................................................................................79
Configuring Proactive HA for Rack servers............................................................................................................... 79
Enabling Proactive HA on clusters.............................................................................................................................. 80
Overriding severity of health update notification.......................................................................................................81
Launching management consoles......................................................................................................................................81
Launching Remote Access console (iDRAC).............................................................................................................82
Launching OMSA console............................................................................................................................................ 82
Launching the Chassis Management Controller console (CMC)............................................................................82
Chapter 11: Chassis management....................................................................................................83
Viewing chassis summary details.......................................................................................................................................83
Viewing hardware inventory information for chassis......................................................................................................84
Viewing additional hardware configuration for chassis.................................................................................................. 86
Viewing associated host for chassis..................................................................................................................................87
Chapter 12: Deploying hypervisor................................................................................................... 89
Device discovery................................................................................................................................................................. 90
Manual discovery...........................................................................................................................................................90
Auto discovery in OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter......................................................................... 90
Removing bare-metal server........................................................................................................................................93
Provisioning.......................................................................................................................................................................... 93
Configuring hardware profile............................................................................................................................................. 93
Enabling CSIOR on reference server.......................................................................................................................... 94
Customizing reference server for creating hardware profile...................................................................................94
Cloning new hardware profile...................................................................................................................................... 96
Managing hardware profiles......................................................................................................................................... 97
Creating hypervisor profile................................................................................................................................................. 97
Managing hypervisor profiles....................................................................................................................................... 98
Creating deployment templates........................................................................................................................................ 98
Managing deployment templates................................................................................................................................ 98
About Deployment Wizard................................................................................................................................................. 99
VLAN support................................................................................................................................................................ 99
Running Deployment Wizard...................................................................................................................................... 100
Managing deployment jobs using Job Queue...........................................................................................................102
Deployment job timing.......................................................................................................................................................102
Downloading custom Dell ISO images............................................................................................................................. 103
Chapter 13: About host, bare-metal, and iDRAC compliance............................................................ 104
Reporting and fixing compliance for vSphere hosts......................................................................................................104
Fixing iDRAC license compliance for vSphere hosts............................................................................................... 105
Using OMSA with 11th generation servers..................................................................................................................... 105
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