Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Version 1.1.1 with Microsoft Windows Admin Center User’s Guide
- Overview of OpenManage Integration with Microsoft Windows Admin Center
- Getting started with OpenManage Integration with Microsoft Windows Admin Center
- Ports required by Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with Microsoft Windows Admin Center
- Manage Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers
- Manage Failover Clusters and Azure Stack HCI
- View iDRAC details of the PowerEdge servers and nodes of HCI and Failover clusters
- Update PowerEdge servers and nodes of HCI and Failover clusters
- Configure the update compliance tools setting
- Update target nodes
- Update nodes of HCI and failover clusters
- Step 1: Generating compliance report—Target node components in Failover Clusters and Azure Stack HCI
- Step 2: Viewing compliance report and selecting components—Target node components in Failover Clusters and Azure Stack HCI
- Step 3: Updating—Target node components in Failover Clusters and Azure Stack HCI
- Troubleshooting
- Availability of OMIMSWAC extension logs
- Availability of update operation logs
- Unable to copy the required files to the target node to fetch inventory information.
- Unable to fetch the health and hardware inventory from iDRAC.
- Unable to complete or select the disks for the blink or unblink operations.
- Licensing status is Unknown or Non-licensed
- Job failed while downloading the required components for the server and cluster-aware updating operations.
- CredSSP failed during update
- Job failed while generating compliance report
- Job failed while updating the selected components.
- Identifying the generation of your Dell EMC PowerEdge server
- Contacting Dell EMC
- Glossary
- Appendix
Update PowerEdge servers and nodes of HCI
and Failover clusters
OpenManage Integration with Microsoft Windows Admin Center (OMIMSWAC) allows you to generate compliance details and
update components, such as BIOS, driver, firmware, and/or system management applications of target nodes and nodes in an
HCI and failover clusters. You can use either an online or offline catalog to generate compliance details and update components.
In OMIMSWAC, click Update. The update window is displayed.
On this page, you can generate a compliance report and update the components as follows:
1. Generate compliance report: Select update source catalog (online or offline catalog) to fetch the update details for each
device and generate a compliance report.
2. Verify compliance report and confirm component selection: Verify the generated compliance report. By default, all the
non-compliant components (excluding downgradable component) are selected. Select or clear any components you want to
update and then confirm the components selection.
3. Update: Update the target node or cluster.
To generate compliance report and update a target node, see update target node. To generate compliance report and update
nodes of HCI and Failover cluster, see update nodes of HCI and failover clusters.
OpenManage Integration uses online or offline catalog to create baselines. The catalog contains latest BIOS, driver, firmware,
and/or system management applications. The system management application might include IC, Driver Pack, iSM, OMSA and
so on. OpenManage Integration also uses the Dell EMC System Update Utility (DSU) and Dell EMC Inventory Collector (IC)
tools to fetch the update details for each device. The DSU and IC tools help to generate compliance report and remediate the
non-compliant devices by updating them.
When offline or online catalog is selected, OMIMSWAC collects the DSU and IC tools configured in Settings > Update Tools.
To configure Update Tools, see Configure the update compliance tools setting. If DSU and IC tools are not configured in the
Settings, then OMIMSWAC with Internet access will download them from www.downloads.dell.com.
In the Notifications section of the Windows Admin center, you are notified when a new online or offline catalog file is available.
To generate the latest compliance report, on the Update tab, run Update Compliance Report.
NOTE:
Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) feature is supported for the following platform with valid licenses:
● YX4X models of Dell EMC PowerEdge server and above with iDRAC firmware 4.00.00.00 or newer.
● Dell EMC Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI with iDRAC firmware 4.00.00.00 or newer.
For more information about licenses, see OpenManage Integration with Windows Admin Center Licensing in the
OMIMSWAC Installation Guide.
Topics:
• Configure the update compliance tools setting
• Update target nodes
• Update nodes of HCI and failover clusters
Configure the update compliance tools setting
To generate the latest update compliance report and device component details, OpenManage Integration without Internet
access requires you to configure the settings for the update compliance tools. The supported versions of the Dell System
Update (DSU) and Dell Inventory Collector (IC) utilities for OpenManage Integration version 1.1.1 are:
● DSU version: 1.8.1. Download the DSU from https://downloads.dell.com/OMIMSWAC/DSU/.
● IC version: Download the IC from https://downloads.dell.com/OMIMSWAC/IC/.
The following configuration is required when OMIMSWAC is not connected to the Internet and you use Offline-Dell EMC
Repository Manager (DRM) catalog to generate compliance report and update the components.
1. In the Settings tab, enter the share location where the DSU utility is placed.
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