Users Guide

Discovery Object Description

Dell Client discovery

Discovers all the supported models of Dell Business Clients that

have the supported Dell Product Instrumentation.

Discover Hardware Components for Dell clients

Discovers all Dell Clients Components which includes Processors,

Sensors, and Storage.

Services discovery

Discovers the Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation Service.

Dell Hardware Group population discovery

Discovers the Dell Hardware Group of Dell Clients Groups.

UnManaged Client Group population discovery

Discovers the Dell Unmanaged Group with Dell Business Clients

that are not being monitored either due to the absence of Dell

Instrumentation or has a lower version of Instrumentation than the

required version or if the OMCI service has been disabled or

stopped.

Dell Client Group population discovery

Discovers the Dell Clients Group with Managed and Unmanaged

Clients Groups.

Monitoring

The Dell Client Management Pack version 5.0 enables you to monitor the discovered Dell Client systems. The Health Status Indicators help

you to monitor the health of your Dell Client systems on the network.

Health Status Indicators

The following table lists the icons that indicate the health status of the discovered Dell client systems on the OpsMgr console. For more

information on severity propagation, see State Views.

Icon

Severity Level

Normal/OK — The component is working as expected.

Warning/Noncritical — A probe or other monitoring device has

detected a reading for the component that is above or below the

acceptable level. The component may still be functioning, but it

could fail. The component may also be functioning in an impaired

state.

Critical/Failure/Error — The component has either failed or

failure is imminent. The component requires immediate attention

and may need replacement. Data loss may have occurred.

The specific component is not monitored.

The service is unavailable.

Views

You can monitor the Dell Client systems using the following views:

• Alerts Views

• Diagram Views

• State Views

Dell Client Management Pack Operations