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5 Monitoring Dell Force10 Ethernet Switches Using Dell SupportAssist | Version 1.1 | February 2014
1 Discovery and inventory
Discovery and inventory aids understanding of what hardware and software are installed across your
organization and is the most basic step to effective systems management. Areas such as license
compliance, health monitoring, security and upgrades, and migrations all require the networked hardware
to be available to the System Administrator on a single console to help ease the process. OpenManage
Essentials provides these capabilities to initialize the discovery and inventory process and perform required
actions on these devices.
1.1 Prerequisites
The following are the prerequisites for performing discovery and inventory:
Credentials: The discovery process in OpenManage Essentials communicates with the Force10 Ethernet
switches using SNMP protocol. You will be required to provide the SNMP community string during the
discovery process.
Force10 device setup: There are a few settings to be performed on the managed nodes to make them
discoverable over the network. For more information, see the
Making Your Environment Manageable with
Dell OpenManage Essentials
technical whitepaper at delltechcenter.com/ome.
1.2 Discovery range configuration
This section provides information about providing a discovery range for discovering devices in
OpenManage Essentials.
i. In OpenManage Essentials, navigate to Manage Discovery and Inventory.
The Discovery Range Summary page is displayed.
ii. Under Discovery Ranges, right-click All Ranges, and click Add Discovery Range.