Owner's Manual

Introduction 7
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Introduction
CAUTION: Perform the procedures in this document only if you have proper
knowledge and experience in using HPOM to avoid data corruption and/or data
loss.
The Dell Smart Plug-in provides grouping and monitoring capability for Dell
systems and enables the users to take remedial action when an inefficient
system is identified. This guide is intended for system administrators
who use Dell Smart Plug-in (SPI) on HP Operations Manager (HPOM)
versions 8.10 and 8.16 for Microsoft Windows
to monitor Dell systems.
With the integration of Dell SPI into HPOM, you can use the HPOM
console to monitor the availability of your Dell devices that are
discovered in HPOM.
Key Features and Benefits of Dell Smart Plug-in
The Dell SPI consists of different policies and tools that you can deploy on
the management server. It enables you to:
• Create the Dell Managed Systems group under the nodes group, and
group the Dell systems which are discovered either as managed or
external nodes with the supported Windows or Linux operating systems,
or VMware ESXi operating system in the HPOM console.
• Process Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps generated
by Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (Server Administrator) and
OpenManage Storage Systems’ (Storage Systems) agents running on Dell
systems.
• Periodically monitor the global system health of Dell systems grouped
under the
Dell Managed Systems group.
• Launch Server Administrator web console as a tool from the HPOM
console for troubleshooting the alerts from the Windows and Linux
systems.
• Launch the Distributed Web Server (DWS) console as a tool from the
HPOM console to connect to the ESXi systems, for troubleshooting the
alerts.
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