User's Manual

3 Dell OpenManage Plug- in Version 2.0 for Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c | A00
Table of contents
1 About Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager .................................................................................... 5
1.1 Key features ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Support matrix ................................................................................................................................................................. 6
1.3 Other information you may need ................................................................................................................................ 6
2 What is new in Dell OpenManage Plug- in Version 2.0 for Oracle Enterprise Manager ............................................... 7
3 Getting started with Dell OpenManage Plug- in for Oracle Enterprise Manager ........................................................... 8
3.1 Configuring OpenManage Plug- in for Oracle Enterprise Manager ....................................................................... 8
3.1.1 Enable filtering of acknowledged alerts ...................................................................................................................... 8
3.1.2 Configuring plug-in collection intervals ..................................................................................................................... 9
3.1.3 Creating manual associations between targets ........................................................................................................ 9
3.1.4 Viewing associations between targets ...................................................................................................................... 10
4 Using OpenManage Plug- in for Oracle Enterprise Manager ............................................................................................ 11
4.1 Discovering and promoting devices ........................................................................................................................... 11
4.3 Managing devices ......................................................................................................................................................... 12
4.3.1 Launching consoles ...................................................................................................................................................... 13
4.3.2 Data sources .................................................................................................................................................................. 13
4.3.4 View in OpenManage Essentials ................................................................................................................................. 14
4.3.5 Plug- in metric collection intervals ............................................................................................................................. 14
5 Best practices ........................................................................................................................................................................... 17
5.1 Dell PowerEdge servers ............................................................................................................................................... 17
5.2 Dell OpenManage Essentials ....................................................................................................................................... 17
5.4 OMA considerations for plug- in deployment .......................................................................................................... 18
5.5 Plug- in maintenance .................................................................................................................................................... 18
5.5.1 Configuring auto discovery ......................................................................................................................................... 18
5.5.2 Periodically promoting device targets ...................................................................................................................... 18
5.5.3 Periodically deleting device targets ........................................................................................................................... 19
5.5.4 Naming the target instance ......................................................................................................................................... 19
6 Use case scenarios .................................................................................................................................................................. 20
7 Troubleshooting....................................................................................................................................................................... 22
7.1 Plug- in Log location and description ........................................................................................................................ 22
7.2 Missing device data ....................................................................................................................................................... 23