Users Guide

Inventory and warranty management

After you configure OMIVV, you can monitor the inventory, warranty jobs, manage deployment jobs, and manage firmware update jobs

under the Monitor tab. The inventory and warranty are set up in the Initial Configuration Wizard or from the Settings tab.

The job queue page manages the following jobs:

• Displaying the submitted server deployment or firmware update jobs.

• Refreshing the firmware update or deployment jobs, or inventory/warranty history queues.

• Scheduling an inventory or warranty job.

• Purging the firmware update or deployment job queue entries.

NOTE: To ensure the inventory/warranty contains up-to-date information, schedule the inventory/warranty job to run

once a week at a minimum.

The tasks that you can perform in this page include:

• Managing deployment jobs

• Managing firmware update jobs

• Managing inventory jobs

• Managing warranty jobs

NOTE:

For all the mentioned jobs, ensure that they are scheduled again if the appliance time is changed to a future date

and reverted.

NOTE: For Basic Health Monitoring, ensure that you reboot the OMIVV appliance. For Extended Health Monitoring,

ensure that you disable Extended Monitoring, and then enable it from the OMIVV Administration Console.

Topics:

• Inventory jobs

• Warranty jobs

• Monitoring single host

• Monitoring hosts on clusters and data centers

• Setting up physical server blink indicator light

• Configuring System Lockdown Mode

Inventory jobs

The inventory jobs are set up by using the Settings tab or the Initial Configuration Wizard. Use the Inventory History tab to view all

the inventory jobs. The tasks that you can perform from this tab include:

• Viewing hosts or chassis inventory

• Modifying inventory job schedules

• Running a chassis inventory job now

Viewing host inventory

A successfully completed inventory is required to gather the data. Once the inventory is complete, you can view the inventory results for

the entire data center or for an individual host system. You can sort the columns of the inventory view in ascending and/or descending

order.

NOTE:

The following are several possible causes when the host data cannot be retrieved and displayed:

• The host is not associated with a connection profile, and therefore you cannot run an inventory job.

• An inventory job has not been run on the host to collect the data, and therefore there is nothing to display.

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