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Introduction
This document is intended for system administrators who use the
Dell™ Server PRO Management Pack (Dell PROPack) to monitor
Dell systems and take remedial action when an inefficient system
is identified.
The integration of Dell PROPack with System Center Operations Manager
(SCOM) 2007 SP1/ System Center Essential (SCE) 2007 SP1and
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008, enables you to
proactively manage virtual environments and ensure high availability of
your Dell systems.
CAUTION: Due to the possibility of data corruption and/ or data loss,
Dell recommends that the procedures in this document should be performed only
by personnel with knowledge and experience of using the Microsoft
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Windows
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operating system and the Systems Center Operations Manager 2007/ System Center
Essentials 2007.
NOTE: Read Dell PROPack readme file, DellPROMP1.0_Readme.txt, which contains
the latest information about software and management station requirements, in
addition to information about known issues. You can find the readme packaged in
the self-extracting executable - Dell.Connections.PROPack. It is also posted on the
Systems Management documentation page on the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com.
Overview
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007/ System Center Essentials
(SCE) 2007 uses Management Packs to collect and store information on
hardware and applications along with a description of their health status.
Dell PROPack works with SCOM/SCE and System Center Virtual Machine
Manager (SCVMM) 2008 to manage Dell physical devices and their hosted
virtual machines using this available health information. Dell PROPack
recommends remedial actions when monitored objects transition to an
unhealthy state (for example, virtual disk failure or predictive drive error),
by leveraging the monitoring and alerting capabilities of SCOM/SCE and
remediation capabilities of SCVMM.