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OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center Version 7.2.1 for System Center Configuration Manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager Unified User’s Guide
Introduction to OMIMSSC
- What’s new?
OMIMSSC components
System requirements for OMIMSSC
- Support Matrix
- Account privileges
- Common system requirements for OMIMSSC
- System requirements of OMIMSSC console extension for SCCM
- System requirements of OMIMSSC console extension for SCVMM
- Network requirements
Deploy OMIMSSC
- Downloading OMIMSSC from web
- Setting up OMIMSSC Appliance
- Enrolling multiple Microsoft consoles
- Launching OMIMSSC admin portal to download OMIMSSC components
  - Installing OMIMSSC console extension for SCCM
  - Installing OMIMSSC console extension for SCVMM
OMIMSSC licensing
- Options after uploading licenses
- Enforcement
- Importing license in to OMIMSSC
- Viewing license details
Enrolling Microsoft console in OMIMSSC
- Launching OMIMSSC from enrolled Microsoft console
Managing OMIMSSC and its components
- Viewing OMIMSSC Appliance details
- Viewing OMIMSSC user management
- Viewing or refreshing enrolled consoles
- Changing OMIMSSC Appliance password
- Repairing or modifying installers
  - Repairing OMIMSSC console extension for SCCM
  - Repairing OMIMSSC console extension for SCVMM
- Modifying SCCM and SCVMM accounts in OMIMSSC admin portal
Backup and Restore OMIMSSC Appliance
- Backup OMIMSSC Appliance
- Restore OMIMSSC Appliance
  - Restoring OMIMSSC Appliance
Uninstalling OMIMSSC
- De-enrolling Microsoft console from OMIMSSC
- Uninstalling OMIMSSC console extension for SCCM
- Uninstalling OMIMSSC console extension for SCVMM
  - Removing OMIMSSC console extension for SCVMM
  - Removing OMIMSSC console extension in SCVMM
- Other uninstallation steps
  - Deleting Appliance-specific RunAsAccounts
  - Deleting OMIMSSC application profile
- Removing Appliance VM
Upgrading OMIMSSC for SCVMM
- About service pack updates
- Upgrading OMIMSSC console extension for SCCM
- Upgrading OMIMSSC console extension for SCVMM
Rebooting OMIMSSC Appliance
Logging out of OMIMSSC Appliance
Managing profiles
- About credential profile
- About hypervisor profile (for SCVMM users)
Discovering devices and synchronizing servers with MSSC console
- Discovering devices in OMIMSSC
- Synchronization of OMIMSSC console extension with enrolled SCCM
  - Synchronization of OMIMSSC console extension with enrolled SCVMM
  - Synchronizing with enrolled Microsoft console
- Resolving synchronization errors
- Viewing System Lockdown Mode
- Deleting servers from OMIMSSC
  - Deleting Modular Systems from OMIMSSC
Views in OMIMSSC
- Launching Server View
- Launching Modular Systems view
  - Launching OpenManage Enterprise Modular console
  - Input/Output Modules
    - Launching Input Output Modules console
- Launching Cluster View
- Launching iDRAC console
- Launching Maintenance Center
- Launching Jobs and Logs Center
Managing Operational Templates
- Predefined Operational Templates
- About reference server configuration
- Creating Operational Template from reference servers
- Creating Operational Template from reference Modular Systems
- Viewing Operational Template
- Modifying Operational Template
- Configuring system specific values (Pool values) using Operational Template on multiple servers
- Deleting Operational Template
- Assigning Operational Template and running Operational Template compliance for servers
- Deploying Operational Template on servers
- Assigning Operational Template for Modular Systems
- Deploying Operational Template for Modular System
- Unassigning Operational Template
- About reference Modular System configuration
Preparing for operating system deployment
- About WinPE image
- Preparing for operating system deployment on SCCM console
- Preparing for non-Windows operating system deployment
Creating clusters using Operational Template
- Creating logical switch for Storage Spaces Direct clusters
- Creating Storage Spaces Direct clusters
Firmware update in OMIMSSC
- About update groups
- About update sources
- Integration with Dell EMC Repository Manager(DRM)
  - Integrating DRM with OMIMSSC
- Setting polling frequency
- Viewing and refreshing device inventory
- Applying filters
  - Removing filters
- Upgrading and downgrading firmware versions using run update method
  - Updates using CAU
Managing devices in OMIMSSC
- Server recovery
- Applying firmware and configuration settings on replaced component
- Collecting LC logs for servers
  - Viewing LC logs
  - File description
- Exporting inventory
- Cancelling scheduled jobs
Provisioning devices from OMIMSSC
- Workflow for deployment scenarios
- Creating Storage Spaces Direct clusters by using predefined Operational Templates
- Workflow for maintaining devices
Configuration and deployment
- Use cases
- Creating Operational Templates
- Installer folders
- Assign Operational Templates
- Deploy Operational Templates
- Windows OS component for the OMIMSSC console extension for SCCM
- Windows component for the OMIMSSC console extension for SCVMM
- Non-Windows component for the OMIMSSC console extension for SCCM/SCVMM
- Discovery in enrolled MSSC
- Importing server profile
- Export server profile
- Viewing LC logs
- Collect LC logs
- Part replacement
- Polling and notification
- Launch iDRAC
- Launch Input Output Module
- Resolving synchronization errors
- Synchronizing OMIMSSC with enrolled Microsoft console
  - Assign and deploy
  - Run update
- Deploy Azure Stack HCI cluster
Trouble shooting scenarios
- Resources required for managing OMIMSSC
- Verifying permissions for using OMIMSSC console extension for SCCM
  - Configuring user access to WMI
- Verifying PowerShell permissions for using OMIMSSC console extension for SCVMM
- Install and upgrade scenarios in OMIMSSC
- OMIMSSC admin portal scenarios
  - Error message while accessing OMIMSSC admin portal through Mozilla Firefox browser
  - Failure to display Dell EMC logo in OMIMSSC admin portal
- Discovery, synchronization and inventory scenarios in OMIMSSC
- Generic scenarios in OMIMSSC
- Firmware update scenarios in OMIMSSC
- Operating system deployment scenarios in OMIMSSC
- Server profile scenarios in OMIMSSC
  - Failure to export server profiles
  - Importing server profile job gets timed out after two hours
- LC Logs scenarios in OMIMSSC
Appendix
Appendix 2
Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site

Here is a pictorial representation of the operating system deployment use cases in OMIMSSC.

Deploying Windows OS using OMIMSSC console extension for

SCCM

To deploy Windows OS through SCCM console using OMIMSSC, perform the following steps:

Provisioning devices from OMIMSSC