Owner's Manual

8 Introduction
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.
Table 1-1. Features and Functionalities
Feature Functionality
Auto-grouping 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 in the HPOM
console. For more information, see Auto-grouping Dell Devices .
SNMP trap
Processing
Process Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
traps generated by Server Administrator and OpenManage
Storage System (Storage Systems) agents running on Dell
systems. For more information, see Processing SNMP
Traps from Dell Devices.
Global Health
Monitoring
Periodically monitor the global system health of Dell
systems grouped under the
Dell Managed Systems group.
For more information, see
Monitoring the Health of Dell
Devices .
Launching Server
Administrator
Launch Server Administrator web console as a tool from the
HPOM console for troubleshooting the alerts from the
Windows and Linux systems. For more information, see
Launching Dell OpenManage Server Administrator .
Launching
Distributed Web
Server (DWS)
Launch the Distributed Web Server (DWS) console as a
tool from the HPOM console to connect to the ESXi
systems, for troubleshooting the alerts. For more
information, see
Launching Distributed Web Server Console .
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