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Using Dell Smart Plug-in (SPI)

This chapter discusses the various operations that you can perform after you

install the Dell SPI on the HP Operations Manager (HPOM) management

server. You can perform the following functions:

• Auto-group Dell systems. For more information, see Auto-grouping Dell

Devices.

• Process SNMP traps from Dell devices. For more information, see

Processing SNMP Traps from Dell Devices.

• Monitor Dell devices. For more information, see Monitoring the Health of

Dell Devices

• Launch Server Administrator as a tool on the HPOM web console. For

more information, see Launching Dell OpenManage Server Administrator.

• Launch DWS console as a tool from HPOM console. For more

information, see Launching Distributed Web Server Console.

Auto-grouping Dell Devices

The auto-grouping policy Dell_Autogroup_Servers is a scheduled task. The

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

default schedule as per your requirement.

The auto-grouping policy:

• The auto-grouping policy identifies and groups the following Dell

PowerEdge and PowerVault systems under the

Dell Managed Systems

node group on the HPOM console:

– Systems running the supported Windows or Linux operating systems,

have Server Administrator installed on them, and have SNMP enabled

– Systems running the supported version of ESXi, have Server

Administrator installed on them, and have the WSMAN (OEM CIM

providers) enabled

• Groups the PowerEdge and PowerVault systems under two categories

according to the hardware configuration -

Dell Monolithic Systems

and

Dell Modular Systems

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