Owners Manual

OMNM 6.5.2 User Guide 15
Preface
The Dell EMC OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM) application offers automated,
consolidated configuration and control of your converged infrastructure resources, including
servers, storage and network devices. You can customize OMNM, and unify multiple systems for a
single view of infrastructure assets, monitoring, compliance auditing, troubleshooting.
Why OpenManage Network Manager?
Productive
Discovery and wizard-driven configuration features are available within minutes of OpenManage
Network Manager installation, which let you quickly discover, monitor and manage your multi-
technology, multi-vendor infrastructure.
Easy
OpenManage Network Manager provides the network information you need from a single pane of
glass, and offers advanced capabilities with minimal configuration overhead.
Valuable
OpenManage Network Manager often costs less to use and maintain than most other solutions.
Scalable
You can scale OpenManage Network Manager to almost any size.
NOTE:
The OpenManage Network Manager product is custom software. The underlying software code, debug
statements, installation files, Java classes, license entries, Logs and so on, may refer to names other
than OpenManage Network Manager. Such names only have meaning for troubleshooting or support.
Most users can safely ignore these. Examples include Redcell, Synergy, Oware, and Liferay.
Application Overview
The OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM) application provides a flexible system to manage
networks big and small. It distributes processing between the following elements:
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Application Server is the application’s “central processor.”
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Web Portal Server provides clients (browsers) with information based on the Application
Server’s processes.
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Mediation Server manages message processing between the Application Server and managed
devices.