Dell OpenManage Systems Management Overview Guide Version 11.
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Contents 1 Dell Systems Management ............................................................................................................................ 5 Dell Systems Management Offerings.............................................................................................................................. 5 Dell Hardware Management Tools............................................................................................................................. 6 Dell Consoles.................
Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus..........................................................................18 Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition........................................................19 Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager.................................................................................... 19 Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios Core.......................................................................
1 Dell Systems Management Dell delivers management solutions that help IT Administrators effectively deploy, update, monitor, and manage IT assets. Dell OpenManage solutions and tools allow customers to quickly respond to problems by helping them to manage Dell servers effectively and efficiently; in physical, virtual, local, and remote environments, operating in-band and out-of-band (agent-free).
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• Dell Server Management Pack Suite for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager • Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager • Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager • Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter • BMC Software • iDRAC with BMC Software BladeLogic Server Automation (BSA) • OpenManage Server Administrator with BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management Suite.
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2 Systems Management Product Overview This section provides an overview for the Dell Systems Management suite of products. Dell Hardware Management Tools Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller With Lifecycle Controller The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) is designed to enhance the productivity of server administrators and improve the overall availability of Dell servers.
For additional information on CMC, see www.dell.com/esmmanuals or www.delltechcenter.com/CMC. iDRAC Service Module This module complements iDRAC with monitoring and configuration information from the operating system. iSM has limited interface of its own on OS. You can enable/disable features on iSM by the iDRAC interfaces to control the CPU and memory consumed on the server’s operating system. The iDRAC Service Module provides the following features: • View operating system (OS) information.
• WS-Man: The Web Services For Management (WS-Man) API, first published by the DMTF in 2008, is the most mature and robust API provided by iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller. WSMAN uses a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) with data modeled using the Common Information Model.
Dell Mobile Applications Dell OpenManage Mobile Dell OpenManage Mobile is a software application that enables easy, convenient, and secure monitoring and management of Dell PowerEdge servers remotely, or at-the-server. With OpenManage Mobile, IT Administrators are able to securely perform several data center monitoring and remediation tasks using an Android or iOS mobile device at any time, from anywhere.
Dell Update Utilities The following table lists the update utilities and the supported operating systems. Table 1. Dell Update Utilities Product Windows Linux Dell Repository Manager Yes - Dell Update Packages Yes Yes Dell OpenManage Server Update Utility Yes Yes Dell OpenManage Linux Repository - Yes NOTE: Dell Repository Manager can create Windows or Linux-based update tools and it can run on Windows Virtual Machines.
Dell OpenManage Server Update Utility Dell Server Update Utility (SUU) is an application that contains a collection of updates, inventory collector and update applicator. When you run SUU on a target system, it determines which updates are appropriate and apply the ones that are applicable. SUU can be downloaded from support.dell.com or a custom SUU can be created using Dell Repository Manager (DRM). The SUU available on support.dell.
Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager provides agent-free, operating system and agnostic hypervisor configuration, deployment of BIOS, and firmware updates for 11th, 12th and 13th generation of PowerEdge servers.
• Discovering unassigned Dell PowerEdge servers manually while using static IP for the iDRAC with LC network. • Viewing key inventory details of discovered servers, which helps IT Administrators to select appropriate servers to deploy in the datacenter.
BMC Software Dell along with BMC Software integrates Dell server, Dell storage, and Dell network management functionality with the BMC Software's process and datacenter automation products. Dell and BMC Software’s partnership helps to make sure that Dell and BMC Software–based IT infrastructure and services provide the highest level of datacenter and business services manageability.
Dell OpenManage Connection for CA Network and Systems Management The Dell OpenManage Connection for CA Network and Systems Management (NSM) provides integrated monitoring of Dell PowerEdge servers and PowerVault storage arrays. It helps in real-time health and alert monitoring, from within CA NSM console. For complete information, see Dell OpenManage Connection for CA NSM User's Guide available at dell.com/support/manuals.
Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Network Manager (ITNM) IP edition provides both agent-free (out-of-band) and agent-based (in-band) options for discovery, classification and monitoring of the systems in the datacenter environment.
• Dell Storage Arrays With this plug-in, customers have comprehensive hardware-level visibility and health monitoring information of the Dell devices including both overall and component-level health monitoring for quicker fault detection and resolution. For complete information, see the Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios Core User’s Guide available at dell.com/support/manuals.
3 Legacy — Dell Hardware Management Tools Topics: • Dell OpenManage Server Administrator • Baseboard Management Controller Management Utilities • Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation • Dell Remote Access Configuration Tool • Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit • Dell IPMI Tool Dell OpenManage Server Administrator The Dell OpenManage Server Administrator provides a comprehensive one-to-one systems management solution for both local and remote servers and their storage controllers and Direct Atta
For complete information, see the OpenManage Client Instrumentation User’s Guide available at dell.com/OMConnectionsClient. Dell Remote Access Configuration Tool Dell Remote Access Configuration Tool is a one-to-many application that discovers and configures iDRAC from a single console. It helps to: • Discover or import the iDRAC IP addresses on the network. • Update firmware for the selected iDRAC. • Configure standard or extended schema-based Active Directory settings for selected iDRAC.
