Users Guide

Discovery Description
Dell Windows Server Network Interfaces Group
Discovery Module
Discovers the Network Interfaces group.
Dell Unmanaged Server Group Discovery Discovers Dell servers that are not being
monitored either due to the absence of Dell
instrumentation, or has an instrumentation version
lower than the required version.
Monitoring
The Monitoring pane of the OpsMgr is used to select views that provide complete health information of
the discovered Dell servers. The Severity Level Indicators helps you to indicate the health of your Dell
servers on the network.
It includes monitoring the health of Dell modular and monolithic systems, and their components, both at
regular intervals and on occurrence of events.
Views
Dell Server Management Pack Suite provides the following types of views for Monitoring, under the Dell
folder on the OpsMgr console:
• Alerts Views
• Diagram Views
• State Views
• Performance and Power Monitoring Views
Alerts Views
This view is available for managing hardware and storage events from Dell servers. The following alerts
are displayed:
• Alerts for events received from Dell OpenManage Server Administrator for Dell servers.
NOTE: Informational alerts are turned off by default. To enable informational alerts, run the Set
Informational Alerts On (Server In-band) task for Dell Server (In-band) Monitoring on the
Feature Management Dashboard.
• Link-up or Link-down alerts for events received from Broadcom and Intel network interface cards for
Dell PowerEdge and PowerVault systems.
Viewing Alerts On The OpsMgr Console
To view alerts on the OpsMgr console:
1. Launch the OpsMgr console and click Monitoring.
2. Click Dell → Alerts Views.
The following are displayed:
• Network Interface Alerts — Link-up and Link-down alerts from the discovered NICs are
displayed.
• Server Alerts — Server Administrator alerts from Dell servers are displayed.
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