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
Glossary
The following table defines or identifies abbreviations and acronyms used in this document.
Table 4. Glossary
Abbreviations/ Acronyms Definition
OMIMSWAC—OpenManage Integration with
Microsoft Windows Admin Center
Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with Microsoft Windows Admin Center
(OMIMSWAC) enables IT administrators to manage the PowerEdge servers
as hosts, Microsoft Failover Clusters created with PowerEdge servers,
and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) created by using the Dell EMC
Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI. OMIMSWAC simplifies the tasks of
IT administrators by remotely managing the PowerEdge servers and clusters
throughout their life cycle.
BIOS Basic Input or Output System.
BIOS is firmware that is embedded on a small memory chip on the
computer's system board or motherboard. It acts as an interface between
the computer's hardware and the operating system. BIOS also contains
instructions that the computer uses to perform basic instructions such as
whether to boot from network or hard disk drive
Console The management application a user utilizes to perform remote platform
management tasks.
DRM—Dell EMC Repository Manager Dell EMC Repository Manager (DRM) is an application within the Dell
OpenManage portfolio that allows IT Administrators to easily manage system
updates. Dell Repository Manager provides a searchable interface used to
create custom software collections known as bundles and repositories of
Dell Update Packages (DUPs).
DSU—Dell EMC System Update Utility Dell EMC System Update (DSU) is a script-optimized update deployment
tool for applying Dell Update Packages (DUP) to Dell EMC target nodes.
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name.
Gateway administrators Gateway administrators can configure who gets access as well as how
users authenticate to the gateway. Only gateway administrators can
view and configure the Access settings in Windows Admin Center. Local
administrators on the gateway machine are always administrators of the
Windows Admin Center gateway service.
Gateway system Windows Admin Center installed as a gateway on a Windows server.
Gateway user Gateway users can connect to the Windows Admin Center gateway service
to manage servers through that gateway, but they can't change access
permissions nor the authentication mechanism used to authenticate to the
gateway.
Windows 10 gateway system Windows Admin Center installed as a gateway on a Windows 10 OS.
HCI Hyper-Converged Infrastructure.
IC—Dell EMC Inventory Collector Inventory Collector is used to inventory the target system, compare the
results against a Repository or Catalog and only deploy the updates that are
required.
iDRAC Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller.
IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface
LED Light Emitting Diode
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