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6 Monitoring iDRAC7 Devices Using Dell SupportAssist | Version 1.0 | December 2013
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 iDRAC7 devices
using SNMP protocol. You may also be required to provide the SNMP community string during the
discovery process.
Setting up the system to be managed: There are a few settings to be performed on the managed nodes
to make them discoverable over the network. For more infomation, see the
Making Your Environment
Manageable with Dell OpenManage Essentials
technical whitepaper at delltechcenter.com/ome.
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA): OMSA should be installed on all the systems that are
required to be managed with OpenManage Essentials.
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.