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
DSU is used to apply the Dell update packages to target nodes.
2. Enter the share location where the IC utility is placed.
The IC utility is used to collect the hardware inventory information from target nodes.
3. Enter the user credentials to access the share location.
NOTE: When OMIMSWAC is uninstalled, the data present in the Settings page is not deleted. If the OMIMSWAC is
later reinstalled, previously configured data in the Settings page is still available to it. However, the password remains
unavailable.
4. To confirm if the utilities are accessible, click Test Connection.
5. Click Save to save the update tools setting.
The passwords for the update tool settings are retained only for the current browser session. Ensure that you reenter
the password after opening a new browser session for the Update compliance feature of OpenManage Integration with
Microsoft Windows Admin Center to function properly.
To generate the latest update compliance report, see Generating compliance report—Target node and Generating
compliance report—Target node components in Failover Clusters and Azure Stack HCI.
Configure proxy settings
OMIMSWAC provides an option to download catalog, DSU, and IC utilities from the Internet using proxy settings to generate
compliance report. However, OMIMSWAC, which is connected to the Internet by proxy, does not support updating target nodes
or clusters using online catalogs. In this case, compliance and updates using the offline catalog are supported.
You can configure the proxy settings to connect to a proxy server that acts as an intermediary between your gateway system
and the Internet. If OMIMSWAC update compliance tool settings are not configured and the gateway system is not connected
to the Internet, it will check the Internet connectivity using the proxy settings.
To connect to a proxy server:
1. Enter the IP address of the proxy server in the below format:
https://<IP address> or http://<IP address>
2. Enter the Port number of the proxy server in the below format, and click Save.
<port number> (https) or <port number> (http)
For example: 443 (https) or 80 (http)
To generate the latest update compliance report, see Generating compliance report—Target node and Generating
compliance report—Target node components in Failover Clusters and Azure Stack HCI.
Update target nodes
By using OpenManage Integration with Windows Admin Center, you can view the compliance report (BIOS, driver, firmware,
and/or system management application) and update the components of target nodes.
Compliance and update prerequisites
Before you generate a compliance report and update components, ensure the following:
● Software and hardware requirements listed in the compatibility matrix of the Installation Guide are met.
● To manage a target node, connect to the target node using Manage as option and provide appropriate target node
administrator credentials. And ensure that the user is part of the local user group of gateway administrators. For more
information about selecting "Manage as", see the "Get Started with Windows Admin Center" section in the Microsoft
documentation.
● Take care of the workload before updating the target node.
● Ensure that inventory information for the target node has been retrieved.
● Ensure that iDRAC lockdown mode is disabled. To disable iDRAC system lockdown mode, see iDRAC documents.
● For SAS-RAID_Driver, ensure the followings:
○ Set the SATA controller to RAID mode.
○ Set the NVMe PCIe SSDs to RAID mode.
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Update PowerEdge servers and nodes of HCI and Failover clusters