Users Guide

Group Diagram View Hardware Type
Dell PowerEdge VRTX Dell VRTX Chassis group
Dell PowerEdge VRTX
Discovering Chassis Devices
The Chassis devices should be discovered as network devices under the Administration section of the OpsMgr console.
To discover Chassis devices:
1. Log on to the management server as an OpsMgr administrator.
2. On the OpsMgr console, click Administration.
3. At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Discovery Wizard.
4. Run the Discovery Wizard, select Network devices and follow the instructions on the screen.
For more information, see the OpsMgr documentation at technet.microsoft.com.
NOTE: Select the Run As accounts created for discovering the chassis devices. For more information, see the
"Configuring Dell Chassis Management Controller Feature For Correlating Server Modules With Chassis Slot
Summary" section of the Dell Server Management Pack Suite Version 5.2.0 For Microsoft System Center Operations
Manager Installation Guide at dell.com/support/manuals.
5. On the Add a Device console screen in OpsMgr 2012, type the IP address that you want to scan, select the appropriate Run As
account from the SNMP V1 or V2 Run As account drop-down box.
6. Enable the Chassis monitoring feature using the Feature Management Dashboard.
Discoveries By The Dell Chassis Monitoring Feature
Table 23. Dell Chassis Monitoring Feature Discoveries
Discovery Object Description
Dell CMC Discovery Discovers all supported Dell CMCs, PowerEdge VRTX, and
PowerEdge M1000e.
Dell CMC Slot Discovery Discovers slots on the CMC device.
Dell Chassis Detailed Discovery Discovers all Dell chassis components.
Dell DRAC/MC Discovery Discovers all supported Dell DRAC/MCs.
Dell DRAC/MC Slot Discovery Discovers slots and chassis slot summary.
Monitoring
After you install the Dell Server Management Pack Suite, you can use the Monitoring pane of the OpsMgr to select views that provide
complete health information of the discovered Dell CMC and DRAC/MC devices. The Chassis monitoring feature discovers and monitors
the health of the Dell CMC and DRAC/MC devices. The Severity Level Indicators indicates the health of your Dell CMC and DRAC/MC
devices on the network.
Chassis Monitoring includes monitoring the health of Dell chassis, and DRAC/MC devices, both at regular intervals and on occurrence of
events.
NOTE:
To perform Chassis Detailed monitoring, create Run As Accounts with WS-Man credentials needed for accessing
the Dell CMCs and associate it to the profiles — Dell CMC Login Account Run As Profiles.
Alerts Views
This view is available for managing hardware and storage events from Dell CMC and DRAC/MC devices. SNMP traps sent by Chassis and
DRAC/MC devices are displayed by the Chassis monitoring feature.
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Chassis Monitoring Feature