Users Guide

Chassis management

OMIVV allows you to view additional information for chassis associated with the Modular servers. In the chassis information tab, you can

view the chassis overview details for an individual chassis, information about hardware inventory, firmware and management controller,

health of the individual chassis components, and chassis warranty information. The following three tabs are displayed for each chassis and

varies for some chassis based on the models:

• Summary tab

• Monitor tab

• Manage tab

NOTE: To view all information, ensure that the chassis are associated with a chassis profile and chassis inventory is

completed successfully. See the About chassis profile for more information.

Topics:

• Managing MX7000X Chassis

• Viewing chassis summary details

• Viewing hardware inventory information for chassis

• Viewing additional hardware configuration for chassis

• Viewing associated host for chassis

• Viewing related chassis information

Managing MX7000X Chassis

The way that you manage an MX7000X chassis is different from managing other Dell EMC chassis such as M1000e, VRTX, and FX2.

You can manage an MX chassis in a standalone mode having public IPs for Management Module and iDRAC IPs. Also, you can configure

an MX chassis in the Multi-Chassis Management (MCM) mode having one lead and multiple members.

Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise-Modular supports wired MCM groups. In the wired type, the chassis is daisy-chained or wired through

a redundant port on the management module. The chassis that you select for creating the group must be daisy-chained to at least one

chassis. For more information about creating the chassis group, see Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise-Modular Edition Version 1.00.00

for PowerEdge MX Chassis User's Guide at dell.com/support.

You can manage the servers present in an MX chassis in two ways:

1. Managing the servers using the Connection profile: The standard and recommended way of managing the servers where all the

functions are supported. In this case, the chassis is discovered only after MX host inventory is complete. For more information about

creating a connection profile, see Creating connection profile on page 33.

2. Managing the servers using the Chassis profile: If you choose to manage your hosts using the chassis profile, OMIVV features

such as, inventory, monitoring, firmware and driver updates are supported. For more information about managing chassis and host

using the chassis profile, see Chassis and host management using the Unified Chassis Management IP on page 99.

NOTE:

If the IPv4 address of the iDRAC is disabled, you can choose to manage the server using the chassis profile. If

you are managing the server using the chassis profile, the following OMIVV functions are not supported:

• iDRAC Lockdown mode

• Ability to use this server as a reference server to capture System Profile and Hardware profile

• OS deployment

• Getting or updating CSIOR status

• Server configuration compliance

NOTE: The hosts with a public IPv4 iDRAC IP can also be managed using the chassis profile. However, it is not

recommended as the above listed functions are not supported.

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