Owner's Manual

Introduction 9
What’s New in This Release
• Grouping and monitoring Dell Linux systems
–Creating the
Dell Linux Servers service group under the Service Map
view on the HPOM console to display all the Linux systems.
• Grouping and monitoring Dell ESXi systems
–Creating the
Dell ESXi Servers service group under the Service Map
view on the HPOM console to display all the ESXi servers.
• Upgrading from Dell SPI version 1.0 to 1.1 using the Dell SPI installer
• Launching the Server Administrator web console from Linux systems
• Custom installation options between Windows, Linux, or ESXi to
monitor either Windows, Linux, or ESXi systems.
• Distributed Web Server (DWS) launch tool integrated with HPOM to
launch the Server Administrator web console for ESXi Server, through
the configured DWS web console URL
• Integration of the Dell SPI configurator – a command line utility to
configure the following parameters:
– SNMP Timeout and retries
– WSMAN username, password, Certificate Authority check,
Common Name check, Revocation check, and WSMAN timeout
– DWS URL for OMSA Launch
Supported Dell Devices
Dell SPI for HPOM supports the following Dell devices:
• Dell PowerEdge systems — complete support for systems ranging from
x8xx to xx1x (both inclusive) that have OMSA versions 5.5 to 6.3 and
the supported Windows operating system installed
• Dell PowerEdge systems — complete support for systems ranging from
x9xx to x1xx (both inclusive) that have OMSA versions 6.1 to 6.3 and
ESXi version 4.0 and above installed
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