Users Guide

Chassis Monitoring Feature
Chassis monitoring feature supports discovery and monitoring of Chassis Management Controller (CMC) on Dell PowerEdge
FX2/ FX2s chassis, Dell PowerEdge VRTX chassis, and Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis using SNMP and WS-Man.
Chassis monitoring feature also supports Detailed monitoring of individual chassis components in OpsMgr 2012.
Topics:
• Discovery and grouping
• Monitoring
• Dell Unit Monitors for Chassis Monitoring Feature
• Rules
• Tasks
Discovery and grouping
The Dell Server Management Pack Suite enables you to discover and classify Dell Chassis Management Controllers (CMC), Dell
PowerEdge FX2/ FX2s, 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 20. 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
Dell FX2 Dell FX2 Chassis Group
Dell PowerEdge FX2
Discovering Chassis devices
About this task
The Chassis devices should be discovered as network devices under the Administration section of the OpsMgr console.
To discover Chassis devices:
Steps
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"
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