Owner's Manual

18 Using Dell Smart Plug-in (SPI)
Deploying the Policies Manually
You can deploy the policies manually after you complete installing the Dell
SPI.
To deploy the policies manually:
1
Launch the HPOM console and navigate to Policy Management → Policy
Groups → SPI for Dell Devices.
2
Select the policy that you want to deploy .
3
Right click and select All Tasks → Deploy on . The Deploy policies on
screen is displayed.
4 Select the management server and click OK . The policy is deployed on the
management server and runs as per the default schedule.
NOTE: Ensure that you deploy the policies only on the management server
and not on the managed nodes.
Auto-grouping Policy
The auto-grouping policy Dell_Autogroup_WindowsServers is a Scheduled
Tas k. The policy is scheduled to run at 23:00 hours every day.
The auto-grouping policy:
• Identifies Dell systems running the supported Microsoft
®
Windows
®
operating systems, have OMSA installed on them, and have SNMP
enabled.
• Groups Dell PowerEdge
™ and PowerVault ™ systems running supported
Microsoft Windows operating systems under the
Dell Managed Systems
node group on the HPOM console.
• Groups the PowerEdge and PowerVault systems under two broad
categories —
Dell Monolithic Systems and Dell Modular Systems .
•
Dell Modular Systems. Creates a group with the Chassis Service tag
as the name of the group. All the blade servers belonging to the same
chassis are grouped under the
Chassis Service tag group.
•
Dell Monolithic Systems. Groups all the monolithic servers.
• Creates three services corresponding to each node under
Dell Managed
Systems
in HPOM Service Map view.
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