Users Guide
Chassis Monitoring Feature
Chassis monitoring feature supports discovery, and monitoring of Chassis Management Controller (CMC) on Dell PowerEdge VRTX
chassis, and Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis using SNMP.
Topics:
• Discovery And Grouping
• Monitoring
• Dell Unit Monitors for Chassis Monitoring Feature
• Rules
• Tasks
Discovery And Grouping
The Dell Server Management Pack Suite version 6.0 enables you to discover and classify Dell Chassis Management Controllers (CMC),
Dell PowerEdge M1000e, and Dell PowerEdge VRTX.
The following table lists the details of the hardware discovery and grouping by the Dell CMC monitoring feature.
Table 17. Dell Hardware Discovery and Grouping
Group Diagram View Hardware Type
Dell CMC Dell Chassis Management Controllers
(CMC) group
CMC instances on the network, chassis slot
summary and server modules for CMC.
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 6.0 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.
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