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Using Dell Smart Plug-in (SPI) 21
Monitoring the Health of Dell Devices
The global status update policy Dell_Poll_WindowsServers is a scheduled
policy that updates the global status of the Dell systems periodically. The
default schedule for this policy is 1 hour.
The global status update policy polls each of the Dell systems that are
grouped under the Dell Managed Systems node group to get the global
system status and sends corresponding severity messages to the active
message browsers of the nodes.
The global health is the overall health of the system. However, the health of
the individual components of the system may differ. To view the health of
the individual components, launch the Server Administrator tool.
The policy also updates the status of the systems under the Dell Server
Global Health component in the Service Map view.
NOTE: Until the Dell_Autogroup_WindowsServers policy runs for the first time,
and the Dell systems are grouped under the Dell Managed Systems group, the
global health status of the systems is not displayed on the HPOM console.
Launching Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator
The Dell SPI enables you to launch the OMSA web console from the HPOM
console. You can launch the OMSA web console to get more information
about the Dell system you are monitoring. After you install the Dell SPI, you
can see the Dell OpenManage folder under Tools on the HPOM console.
You can launch OMSA using any of the options given below.
Service Map View The Dell SNMP Traps service displays the highest severity of
all the active trap messages of the corresponding node. This is
not propagated to the parent services. The Dell Server Global
Health service displays the present health status of the
corresponding node, and this is propagated to the parent object.
Table 3-2. Severity Propagation Behavior
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