Users Guide
– User access security.
– Storage components, including the fault-tolerant mode for the storage controllers.
– PCIe slots.
You can configure CMC to send email alerts or SNMP trap alerts for warnings or errors such as
temperature, hardware misconfiguration, power outage, fan speed, and blowers.
What Is New In This Release
This release of CMC for Dell PowerEdge VRTX supports:
• Fault-tolerant (Active/Passive) mode for shared storage “Shared PERC 8”.
• M820 Server Platform support.
• PCIe power ride-through implementation.
Key Features
The CMC features are grouped into management and security features.
Management Features
CMC provides the following management features:
• Redundant CMC environment.
• Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) registration for IPv4 and IPv6.
• Login management and configuration for local users, Active Directory, and LDAP.
• Advanced cooling options such and ECM (Enhanced Cooling Mode) and Fan Offset can be enabled to
provide additional cooling for improved performance.
• Remote system management and monitoring using SNMP, a web interface, KVM, Telnet, or SSH
connection.
• Monitoring — Provides access to system information and status of components.
• Access to system event logs — Provides access to the hardware log and chassis log.
• Firmware updates for various chassis components — Enables you to update the firmware for CMC,
iDRAC on servers, chassis infrastructure, and chassis storage.
• Firmware update of server components such as BIOS, network controllers, storage controllers, and so
on across multiple servers in the chassis using Lifecycle Controller.
• Fault-tolerant mode for shared storage SPERC 8.
• Dell OpenManage software integration — Enables you to launch the CMC web interface from Dell
OpenManage Server Administrator or OpenManage Essentials (OME) 1.2.
• CMC alert — Alerts you about potential managed node issues through Remote syslog email message
or SNMP trap.
• Remote power management — Provides remote power management functions, such as turn off and
reset of any chassis component, from a management console.
• Power usage reporting.
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption — Provides secure remote system management through the
web interface.
• Launch point for the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) web interface.
• Support for WS-Management.
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