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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Enabling a Dell Server for Server Management in vCenter

Host Compliance Wizard - Summary Figure 23.

Fixing OMSA issues

When a host is selected for fixing an OMSA issue, a new OMSA package is installed or updated as

needed. To fix OMSA configuration, a file on the host operating system is configured to send SNMP

traps.

Dell Management Plugin-in uses vCenter for OMSA related issue on ESXi 4.x hosts but uses SSH on classic

ESX 4.x and ESXi 5.0/5.0 Upate1.

Common failures while fixing OMSA

1. Host is down

2. SSH is disabled for ESX 4.x and ESXi (5.0, 5.0 U1)

3. PasswordAuthentication=no in the SSH Configuration file on ESXi (5.0, 5.0 U1)

4. Network latency for OMSA configuration.

Fixing CSIOR issues

CSIOR is an iDRAC feature which needs to be ON to collect hardware information. When a host is

selected for fixing CSIOR issues, this feature is turned ON. Sometimes, CSIOR may already be ON and

simply needs the host to reboot. This is indicated in CSIOR status as “On - Reboot Required”. To fix