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Table 22. Dell Hardware Discovery and Grouping
Group Diagram View Hardware Type
Dell CMC Dell Chassis Management
Controllers (CMC) group
CMC, DRAC/MC instances on the
network, chassis slot summary
and server modules for CMC and
DRAC/MC.
Dell PowerEdge M1000e Dell M1000e Chassis group
Dell PowerEdge M1000e
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.
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