Users Guide

Manage Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers
You can use OpenManage Integration with Microsoft Windows Admin Center (OMIMSWAC) to view and manage health,
hardware inventory, update, and iDRAC of PowerEdge servers.
Prerequisites
● You have installed Windows Admin Center 2103.2 GA.
● You must be logged in to Microsoft Windows Admin Center as a Gateway Administrator.
● You must have installed the OMIMSWAC extension. For more information about the installation procedure, see the Dell EMC
OpenManage Integration with Microsoft Windows Admin Center Installation Guide.
● Server connections are added in Microsoft Windows Admin Center. For more information about adding
server connections, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/understand/
windows-admin-center.
● Ensure to access the Windows Admin Center remotely using domain administrator credentials. For more information, refer to
Microsoft documents.
NOTE: If NICs are disabled in BIOS settings, health and hardware inventory information for certain iDRAC firmware versions
will be delayed. Therefore, ensure all the NICs are enabled in BIOS settings.
Steps
To manage PowerEdge servers:
1. In the upper left corner of Windows Admin Center, select Server Manager from the drop-down menu.
2. From the list, select a server connection, and then click Connect.
NOTE:
If "Manage as" credentials are not provided while connecting to a target node or cluster or not available to the
extension, you will be prompted to specify the "Manage as" credentials inside the extension when you try to manage the
target node or cluster.
3. In the left pane of the Microsoft Windows Admin Center, under EXTENSIONS, click Dell EMC OpenManage Integration.
4. Select:
● Health—to view the health status of the target node components. A status icon represents the overall health status of
the target node. See Health status—Supported target node components on page 12.
● Inventory—to view the detailed hardware inventory information of the target node components. See Hardware
inventory—Supported target node components on page 12.
● iDRAC—to view the iDRAC details of the target node. You can directly launch the iDRAC console from Windows Admin
Center by using the OpenManage Integration. See View iDRAC details of the PowerEdge servers and nodes of HCI and
Failover clusters on page 18.
● Configure—In Compute Resources, you can view CPU core distribution summary and manage CPU core counts. See
Manage CPU cores in clusters or individual nodes on page 37.
● Update—to view compliance report and to update components to baseline version. See Update PowerEdge servers and
nodes of Windows Server HCI, Azure Stack HCI, and Failover clusters using OpenManage Integration extension on page
19.
The health, hardware inventory, and iDRAC details are cached and will not be loaded each time the extension is loaded. To
view the latest health and inventory status and iDRAC details, in the upper-right corner of the Health Status, click Refresh.
NOTE:
For modular servers (YX2X, YX3X, YX4X, YX5X, and above models of PowerEdge servers), the following
information that is related to fans and power supplies are not displayed:
● Health status
● Attribute values in the hardware inventory table
NOTE: For YX2X and YX3X models of PowerEdge servers with firmware version earlier than 2.60.60.60, information
about the following components are not displayed:
● Health status—Accelerators, memory, storage controllers, storage enclosures, and physical disks.
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