Concept Guide

console. The wizard protects existing investment of IT organizations in the Nagios XI console and eases
the integration and monitoring of Dell servers.
NOTE: The wizard is currently available as a public beta release to gauge customer interest, and is
not covered by Dell support.
The following are the key features supported by Dell OpenManage Wizard for Nagios XI:
• Discovers inventory of Dell PowerEdge servers, using agent-free technology through iDRAC with
Lifecycle Controller.
• Monitors overall server health.
• Launches iDRAC web console from Nagios XI to perform further troubleshooting, configuration, or
management activities.
CA Spectrum and CA Unified Infrastructure Management (Native Integration)
Dell partners with CA Inc. to enable native monitoring of Dell server and Dell network switches within
CA’s product line. CA Spectrum supports monitoring of Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell network
switches (formerly Force10 switches), while CA Unified Infrastructure Management (formerly CA Nimsoft
Monitor) supports monitoring of Dell PowerEdge servers. Dell’s partnership with CA Inc. helps to make
sure that Dell and CA Software – based IT infrastructure and services, provide the highest level of
datacenter and business services manageability and optimizing customer’s total cost of ownership (TCO)
in case the customer is an existing user of CA products.
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