Users Guide

Feature Management Dashboard

The Feature Management Dashboard provides facilities for the configuration of Dell Server Management Pack Suite monitoring

features to monitor the various Dell systems — Dell servers, Dell Precision Racks, Dell Remote Access Controllers (DRAC), Dell

PowerEdge FX2/ FX2s, Dell PowerEdge VRTX, Dell PowerEdge M1000e, and integrated DRAC (iDRAC). The Feature

Management Dashboard provides the following monitoring features.

● Agent-based Monitoring Feature

● Agent-free Monitoring Feature

● DRAC Monitoring Feature

● Chassis Monitoring Feature

● Chassis Modular Server Correlation Feature

Topics:

• Discovery by Dell Feature Management Pack

• Tasks

Discovery by Dell Feature Management Pack

Table 26. Dell Feature Management Pack Discovery

Discovery Object Description

Dell Feature Management Host Discovery

Populates the dashboard if the management server is the

feature management pack host. The management server on

which the Dell Server Management Pack Suite is installed

first, is selected as the feature management pack host.

Tasks

Tasks are available in the Tasks pane of the OpsMgr console. When you select a device or a component, the relevant tasks

appear in the Tasks pane.

Feature Management Tasks

The following table lists the tasks available on the Feature Management Dashboard. Some tasks listed in the Feature

Management Tasks table appear only after you have imported a particular monitoring feature.

NOTE:

In the Event log, ignore the errors pertaining to reimporting of existing management packs under the error logs.

These errors occur when Feature Management Dashboard reimports all the dependent management packs that are

already imported while importing a monitoring feature.

NOTE: Wait for a task to complete (view the state update change in the dashboard) before launching another task using

the Feature Management Dashboard.

Table 27. Feature Management Tasks

Tasks Description

Server and Rack Workstation Agent-free Monitoring

Import Agent-free Scalable Feature Imports the Scalable feature of Agent-free monitoring

feature.

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