Users Guide

Contents
1 Introduction...........................................................................................................6
Terms used in this document............................................................................................................... 6
What is new in this release.................................................................................................................... 7
Key Features of Dell Server Management Pack Suite...........................................................................7
2 Overview of Dell Server Management Pack Suite Functionality..................9
3 Agent-based Monitoring Feature.................................................................... 10
Comparison of Scalable and Detailed Edition features..................................................................... 10
Discovery and grouping......................................................................................................................10
Discovering Dell Server in OpsMgr................................................................................................11
Discoveries by the Agent-based Monitoring Feature...................................................................11
Monitoring........................................................................................................................................... 12
Monitored hardware components................................................................................................12
Views.............................................................................................................................................. 14
Unit Monitors.................................................................................................................................20
Rules...............................................................................................................................................25
Tasks.................................................................................................................................................... 27
Task Summary............................................................................................................................... 27
Performing Dell Tasks................................................................................................................... 27
Dell Windows Server Tasks........................................................................................................... 28
Reports.................................................................................................................................................32
Accessing Reports......................................................................................................................... 32
Generating OpenManage Windows Event Log Report................................................................32
Generating BIOS Configuration Report........................................................................................33
Generating Firmware and Driver Versions Report....................................................................... 33
Generating RAID Configuration Report........................................................................................33
4 Agent-free Monitoring Feature........................................................................35
Comparison of Scalable and Detailed Edition Features.................................................................... 35
Discovery and grouping......................................................................................................................35
Discovering a Dell Server using Agent-free Monitoring Feature.................................................36
Discoveries by the Dell Agent-free Monitoring Feature.............................................................. 37
Monitoring........................................................................................................................................... 37
Monitored hardware components............................................................................................... 38
Views..............................................................................................................................................40
Dell Unit Monitors for Agent-free Monitoring Feature......................................................................44
Rules.................................................................................................................................................... 48
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