Users Guide
14. On the Add Devices screen specify the iDRAC IP address of the systems you want to monitor using
the Server (out-of-band) monitoring feature. You can specify the iDRAC IP address of the systems by:
• Scanning the IP Subnet that you provided.
• Scanning a specified IP Range.
• Importing a text file containing the list of iDRAC IP addresses.
15. Click Advanced Options, select the Skip CA Check and Skip CN Check option and click OK.
16. Click Scan for Devices to search for Dell PowerEdge 12G systems on your network.
The IP addresses are listed under Available Devices.
17. Click Add to add the list of IP addresses you want to monitor and click OK.
18. On the Specify the devices you want to monitor screen, click Create.
19. Click Close.
The scanned Dell servers initially appear in Monitoring → WS-Management and SMASH Monitoring
→ WS-Management Device State screen. After the automatically triggered SMASH discovery is
completed by the OpsMgr, the Dell servers appear in
Monitoring → WS-Management and SMASH
Monitoring → SMASH Device State screen.
20. Enable the Server (Out-of-band) monitoring feature by importing the required management packs,
or through Feature Management Dashboard. For more information on importing the required
management packs see, Management Pack Functionality And Dependencies.
NOTE: Before discovering a Dell server using the Server (Out-of-Band) monitoring feature, the Dell
Connections License Server URL has to be configured and setup. For more information, see the
Configuring Dell Connections License Manager URL.
Discoveries By The Dell Server (Out-Of-Band) Monitoring Feature
Table 12. Dell Server (Out-of-Band) Monitoring Feature Discoveries
Discovery Object Description
Dell Server Discovery Classifies your Dell server and populates the key
attributes and components.
Dell Device Helper Discovery Discovers the DellDeviceHelper as an object.
Monitoring
After you install the Dell Server Management Pack Suite, you can use the Monitoring pane of the OpsMgr
to select views that provide health information of the discovered Dell servers. The Server Out-of-band
monitoring feature discovers and monitors the health of the Dell servers. The Severity Level Indicators
indicates the health of your Dell servers on the network. It includes monitoring health of Dell modular
and monolithic systems and their components at regular intervals and on occurrence of events.
As the system components monitored through Server (In-band) monitoring feature and Server (Out-of-
band) are not exactly the same, it is possible that the overall server health that is shown through In-band
(OMSA) and Out-of-band (iDRAC) methods could be different. Drill-down to the specific component
status when you observe such discrepancies to resolve specific problem conditions in the system
component to bring the overall health of the server to OK state.
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