Owner's Manual

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Deploying the Policies Manually

You can deploy the policies manually after you complete installing the Dell

SPI.

To deploy the policies manually:

Launch the HPOM console and navigate to

Policy Management 

Policy Groups SPI for Dell Devices.

Select the policy that you want to deploy

Right-click and select

All Tasks



Deploy on

. The

Deploy policies on

screen is displayed.

Select the management server and click

. The policy is deployed on the

management server and runs as per the default schedule. You can change

the default schedule when you manually run the policies.

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_Servers is a scheduled task. The

policy is scheduled to run at 23:00 hours every day. You could change this

default schedule as per your requirement.

The auto-grouping policy:

• Identifies and groups Dell PowerEdge and PowerVault systems running the

supported Windows operating systems, have Server Administrator

installed on them, and have SNMP enabled, under the

Dell Managed

Systems

node group on the HPOM console

• Identifies and groups Dell PowerEdge systems running the supported

Linux operating systems, have Server Administrator installed on them, and

have SNMP enabled, under the

Dell Managed Systems

node group on the

HPOM console

• Identifies and groups PowerEdge systems running the supported version of

ESXi, have Server Administrator installed on them, and have the OEM

CIM providers enabled on them, under the

Dell Managed Systems

node

group on the HPOM console

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