Users Guide
OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide 17
Key Features
The following are some key features of OpenManage Network Manager:
Networks with Dell EMC OpenManage Network Manager
The beginning of network management with OpenManage Network Manager is executing
Discovery Profiles to discover resources on a network. After that occurs, you can configure System
Topology, Resource Monitors, and Performance Dashboards.
After these initial steps, OpenManage Network Manager helps you understand and troubleshoot
your network’s conditions. For example: Suppose a OpenManage Network Manager
Performance
Dashboard
displays something you want to troubleshoot. You can right-click the impacted device
in the Managed Resources portlet to access its configuration and initiate potential actions on it.
The Network Status icon in the view indicates the device status. Its Connected Devices panel also
displays the highest severity alarm on the device or its sub-components. For example, red indicates
a
Critical
alarm.
Feature Description
Customizable and
Flexible Web Portal
You can customize the web portal, even providing custom designed views of
your data assigned to individual users. You can even create web portal
accounts for departments, geographic areas, or other criteria.
Automate and Schedule
Device Discovery
Device discovery populates OpenManage Network Manager’s database and
begins network analysis. You can also create schedules to automatically run
Discovery whenever you need to update the initially discovered conditions.
OpenManage Network
Manager Administration
You can administer your network—adding devices, user accounts, and web
portal displays—from a secure console on your network.
Open Integration OpenManage Network Manager supports industry standards. It comes with an
open-source MySQL database, and supports using Oracle databases. It also
uses industry-standard MIBs and protocols, and even lets you install open-
source screen elements like Google gadgets to its web portal.
Network Topology The OpenManage Network Manager topology screen lets you create multi-
layered, customizable, web-based topology displays of your network to help
track the state of network devices.
Alarms Alarms respond to hundreds of possible network scenarios by default, and you
can configure them to including multiple condition checks. Alarms help you
recognize issues before your network’s users experience productivity losses.
Alarms can also trigger actions like e-mailing technical support staff,
executing Perl scripts, paging, emitting SNMP traps to other systems, Syslog
messaging, and executing external application.
Traps and Syslog OpenManage Network Manager lets you investigate network issues by
examining traps and Syslog messages. You can set up events/alarms and then
receive, process, forward, and send syslog and trap messages.
Reports and Graphs This application comes with many pre-configured reports to display data from
its database. You can archive and compare reports, or automate creating them
with OpenManage Network Manager’s scheduler. If your package includes
them, you can also configure graphs to present performance and traffic flow
data.
Modularity Modules analyze network traffic, manage services and IP address and subnet
allocations. OpenManage Network Manager modules save time adding to
existing OpenManage Network Manager deployments to add feature
functionality without requiring additional standalone software.