Reference Guide

Systems Management Product Overview
Dell EMC Consoles
The following consoles help in monitoring, managing the infrastructure, and the Lifecycle management of the PowerEdge servers:
OpenManage Enterprise
OpenManage Enterprise is the next generation of OpenManage Essentials. It simplifies, centralizes, and automates the full span of server
lifecycle management activities. It helps in discovery, configuration, deployment, updates, and remediation. These tasks are performed
within a single console that unifies management of tower, rack, and modular platforms. OpenManage Enterprise helps in standardizing and
supporting IT management policies and practices.
The OpenManage Enterprise console simplifies and strengthens the current capability of OpenManage Essentials in the following areas:
• Reduced time and effort that is required to manage small and large-scale IT environments using HTML5 GUI
• Simplified GUI workflow to provide a single management layer that unifies the management of PowerEdge tower, rack, and modular
platforms
• Packaged and delivered as virtual appliance and supports ESXi, HyperV, and KVM
• Redesigned architecture on CentOS with the PostgreSQL database. Operating system and database license are no longer required
• Centralized user management with role-based access control
• Enabled with customer automation and solution integration using Northbound API
• Enhanced policy-driven management
Table 1. OpenManage Enterprise feature and benefits
Feature Description Benefits
Packaged as a virtual
appliance
OpenManage Enterprise is readily deployable as a virtual
appliance in ESXi, Hyper-V, and KVM hypervisors
Enables quick and easy deployment while
gaining the benefits of virtualization, including
the migration of the application from one
physical server to another.
Discovery and Inventory on
the IPv4 or IPv6 network
Discovery and inventory data center hardware up to 8000
devices.
Provides data-center visibility for IT
administrators. Improves security and
provides a management solution for
customers no longer using IPv4.
Automatic device
onboarding
The "make ready for management" step is automated for
iDRAC during the device discovery and inventory process.
Minimizes human errors during the process of
discovery and setup. Helps in getting the
environment ready for on-going
management.
Device level role-based
access control (RBAC)
The scope of IT administration responsibilities can be
assigned to specific groups of devices.
Helps ensure IT Admin workload balance and
skill-set alignment.
Server single sign-on Use of credential caching is employed to avoid further
password prompts when IT administration perform
management tasks or launch the iDRAC virtual console.
Delivers fast and seamless management
across the PowerEdge server lifecycle while
enabling management from a single level.
Monitoring and Event
Processing
Monitoring system health for discovered devices and
create event policy to dispatch hardware events.
Provides IT admin real time feedback for the
health of their environment and enables
automated responses through automation
policy.
Comprehensive API All product features are accessible from a new RESTful
API that is conformant to the new popular Redfish
standard.
Enables IT Admins to automate features and
functions of OpenManage Enterprise through
popular tools such as PowerShell and Python.
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