Managing Dell Blade and Chassis Using Dell OpenManage Essentials This white paper explains how to manage multiple Dell chassis and blades remotely using Dell™ OpenManage™ Essentials (OME).
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Managing Dell Blade and Chassis Using Dell OpenManage Essentials Contents Executive summary .................................................................................................. 4 What is Dell OpenManage Essentials? ............................................................................. 4 Scope of the document .............................................................................................. 4 What is Dell modular chassis? .....................................................
Managing Dell Blade and Chassis Using Dell OpenManage Essentials Executive summary This document explains how to manage multiple Dell chassis and blades remotely using Dell™ OpenManage™ Essentials (OME). Dell OME provides a single view to make management of Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC), Dell Remote Access Controller/Modular Chassis (DRAC/MC), and its blades and switches easier.
Managing Dell Blade and Chassis Using Dell OpenManage Essentials For an IT Administrator, it is difficult to manage multiple CMC, DRAC/MC, blades, switches, and storage devices. Dell OpenManage Essentials provides a single console to view and manage multiple CMC, DRAC/MC, blades, switches, and storage. Management tasks from Dell OpenManage Essentials include retrieving inventory details, receiving SNMP alerts, monitoring health, updating firmware, etc.
Managing Dell Blade and Chassis Using Dell OpenManage Essentials 5. Click Next. 6. On the ICMP Configuration screen, enter the ping time out and ping re-tries values. 7. Click Next. 8. On the SNMP Configuration screen (Figure 2), enter the Get community string for SNMP. The community string should be the same as the community string configured for the particular device. The Timeout and Retries values for SNMP can also be configured. Figure 2. SNMP Configuration 9.
Managing Dell Blade and Chassis Using Dell OpenManage Essentials Figure 3. View of modular chassis components The right-hand side grid details shown in Figure 3 can be exported in following formats: CSV HTML XML Text To export the required data, right-click on the grid and select Export. Inventory Inventory details of CMC, DRAC/MC, blades, and switches can be viewed by selecting the corresponding node in the tree as shown in Figure 4.
Managing Dell Blade and Chassis Using Dell OpenManage Essentials Application Launch Application Launch option launches CMC console, switch console, blade servers OMSA console, RAC console, etc. This helps customers for further details about current health status or to configure CMC, blade, or switch. To launch a remote console, select the device from the tree node or from the right hand side grid entry and select the Application Launch option.
Managing Dell Blade and Chassis Using Dell OpenManage Essentials devices that can be updated. On selection of the device, the list of components to be updated is displayed in Pane 2. CMC is listed as any other device along with its firmware details. Figure 5. Dell OpenManage Essentials System Update 1. From the Manage menu, select System Update from. 2. Click Select a Catalog Source to import the catalog.cab file. 3. CMC requiring the upgrade is listed on the Non-Compliant Systems tab.
Managing Dell Blade and Chassis Using Dell OpenManage Essentials Figure 6. Modular Enclosure Information Summary Dell OpenManage Essentials provides following features to manage CMC, DRAC/MC, blades, and switches: Discovery and inventory. Classification. Health and connection state monitoring. Reception and management of device alerts. Application launch from within the OpenManage Essentials Firmware update of multiple CMC and blade servers.
