Dell EMC OpenManage Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager version 2.1 User’s Guide October 2020 Rev.
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Contents Chapter 1: Introduction................................................................................................................. 4 New and enhanced features............................................................................................................................................. 4 Use case scenarios..............................................................................................................................................................
1 Introduction OpenManage Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) enables monitoring of different metrics and hardware resources in the PowerEdge server (12th generation of PowerEdge servers and later) and chassis by using vRealize Operations Manager and requires vROPS version 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 Dell EMC Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV) is a product that manages the ESXi servers within the VMware vCenter. OpenManage Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager v2.
Perform the following steps to monitor a server: 1. Launch the vRealize Operations Manager console. 2. From the Home tab, click Environment. 3. In Environment Overview, select Dell EMC OpenManage vRealize Operations Management Pack and click Dell EMC Servers. 4. Select the server that you want to monitor. The health status, alerts, and the associated details of the selected server is displayed. For more information about alerts, see Viewing Alerts.
Firmware update report for Servers Firmware update report displays the current and available versions of the firmware for each component of Servers. Perform the following steps to generate firmware update report: 1. On the Dashboards tab, click Reports. 2. Select Dell EMC Server Firmware Update Summary Report. 3. Click Run Template and select All Objects → Dell EMC OpenManage Adapter → Dell EMC Firmware Group → Dell Firmware Group . 4. Click OK.
Figure 1. Dell EMC Servers Overview Dashboard 1. Dell EMC Servers Environmental Health: Displays the health status of all the servers. Red indicates Critical state, yellow indicates Warning state, and green indicates Healthy state. The source of Dell EMC Servers Environmental Health is defined as Server Metrics|Server Overall Health (Enum). NOTE: Health status is reported based on polling, SNMP Trap (External Alerts) does not impact this heatmap. 2.
Dell EMC Server Detailed Dashboard In the Dell EMC Server Detailed Dashboard, you can view the overall health status of the fan, battery, voltage, memory, temperature, physical disk, power supply, and processor of the server. Figure 2. Dell EMC Server Detailed Dashboard 1.
Figure 3. Dell EMC Chassis Overview Dashboard 1. Dell EMC Chassis Environmental Health: Displays the health status of all the chassis. Red indicates the critical state, yellow indicates warning state, and green indicates healthy state. Health status is reported based on polling alone, SNMP Trap (External Alerts) does not impact this heatmap. The source of Dell EMC Chassis Environmental Health is defined as Chassis Metrics|Chassis OverAll Health(Enum). 2.
Figure 4. Dell EMC Chassis Detailed Dashboard 1. Dell EMC Chassis List: Displays the Chassis and the details such as, Hostname, Model, ServiceTag, IPAddress, Chassis Overall health, PSU Rollup Status, and Fan Rollup Status. The source of Dell EMC Chasssi List is defined as Chassis Metrics|Model, Chassis Metrics|Host Name, Chassis Metrics|IpAddress, Chassis Metrics|Service Tag, Chassis Metrics|Chassis Overall Health, Chassis Metrics|PSU Rollup Status, and Chassis Metrics|Fan Rollup Status. 2.
Accessing views for the group of Servers Perform the following steps to access Dell Server group views for all the servers: 1. Launch vRealize Operations Manager for a console. 2. Click Environment. 3. Expand All Objects, and click Dell OpenManage Adapter. 4. Expand Dell EMC Servers Group, again click Dell Servers Group, and then select the Details tab. A List of views is displayed.
Accessing reports The OpenManage Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager provides custom reports for the following: ● Dell EMC Server Firmware Summary Report ● Dell EMC Server Power Details ● Dell EMC Server Warranty ● Dell EMC Server SSD Write Endurance Report ● Dell EMC Server Hardware Configuration Drift Report.
4. Click OK. NOTE: The firmware report provided is based on the associated firmware repository through cluster profile. Any changes made to firmware repository, does not update until the Cluster Profile is updated to the latest firmware repository. NOTE: Chassis Service Tag and Chassis IP address are not in the report for adapter instance that manages OMIVV 4.3.1.
Dell EMC Server Hardware Configuration Drift Report Dell EMC server hardware configuration list displays Service Tag, Host Name, Component Name, Component Group, Attribute NameCurrent Value, Baseline Value,Chassis IP Address and, Chassis Service Tag of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. Perform the following steps to access Dell EMC server firmware summary report: 1. On the Dashboards tab, click Reports. 2. Select Dell EMC Server Hardware Configuration Drift Report. 3.
2 License metrics of OMIVV To access the license metrics of OMIVV: Click Environment > All objects > Dell EMC OpenManage Adapter > Dell EMC OpenManage Adapter Instance > Select Instance > All metrics > License Info. The license for OMIVV is also the licensing used for the management pack. License metrics of OMIVV enables you to view the license information and metrics.
3 Dell EMC Server metrics Accessing Dell EMC Server metrics: Click Environment > All objects > Dell EMC OpenManage Adapter > Dell EMC Server > Select Server > Metrics > All Metrics. NOTE: If the Server is firmware noncompliant in OMIVV, then health metric fails for that Server Table 1.
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Table 1. Dell EMC Server Metrics (continued) Resources Available Server- Resource Metrics Minimum Critical Threshold(Celsius) Minimum Warning Threshold (Fahrenheit) Minimum Warning Threshold(Celsius) NOTE: Whenever the Temperature Probes values are not applicable by iDRAC. The default value for MaxThreshold is 9999 and MinThreshold is -999 (for vROPS). The values remain same for both Celsius and Fahrenheit.
Table 1. Dell EMC Server Metrics (continued) Resources Available Server- Resource Metrics Total Disk Size (GB) NOTE: If Virtual Disks are created out of this HDDs, the Total Disk Size (GB) is reported as—255.
Table 1. Dell EMC Server Metrics (continued) Resources Available Server- Resource Metrics World Wide Node Name(WWN) World Wide Port Name(WWPN) Dell EMC Server Hardware Configuration Drift Attribute Name Baseline Value Chassis IP Address Chassis Service Tag Component Name Current Value Group Name Host Name Service Tag NOTE: Hardware Configuration Drift Metrics are not provided for Adapter Instance that manages OMIVV 4.3.1.
4 Dell EMC Chassis Metrics Accessing Dell EMC chassis metrics: Click Environment > All objects > Dell EMC OpenManage Adapter > Dell EMC Chassis > Select chassis > Metrics > All Metrics > chassis Metrics. Table 2.
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5 View DellEMC PowerEdge servers and ESXi of VMware relationship This dashboard provides a visual representation of server relationship between DellEMC PowerEdge servers and ESXi. NOTE: Admin can see server and ESXI relationship only when the OMIVV managed vCenter is added to vROPS. To view the object relationship health tree, see Dell EMC Server Detailed Dashboard on page 8.
6 Known Issues ● Historical data for hard drive are not available after the OpenManage Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager Version 1.1 upgrade. This behavior is expected behavior with the latest upgrade, adapter is offering hard drive and SSD data separately. However, historical data are available only for the SSD. Hard drive metrics are freshly populated since the time adapter has been updated. ● After OpenManage Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager Version 1.
7 Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site You can access the required documents in one of the following ways: ● Using the following links: ○ For Dell EMC Enterprise Systems Management, Dell EMC Remote Enterprise Systems Management, and Dell EMC Virtualization Solutions documents — https://www.dell.com/esmmanuals ○ For Dell EMC OpenManage documents — https://www.dell.com/openmanagemanuals ○ For iDRAC documents — https://www.dell.
