Dell EMC Systems Management Overview Guide Version 20.0 May 2020 Rev.
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1 Dell EMC systems management Dell EMC delivers management solutions that help IT Administrators effectively deploy, update, monitor, and manage IT assets. OpenManage solutions and tools enable you to quickly respond to problems by helping them to manage Dell EMC servers effectively and efficiently; in physical, virtual, local, and remote environments, operating in-band, and out-of-band (agent-free).
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Connections for third-party consoles • Micro Focus • ○ Dell EMC OpenManage Operations Connector for Operations Bridge Manager (formerly Operations Manager i) ○ Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-In for HP Operations Manager (HPOM) for Windows IBM • ○ OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus (ITNO) ○ OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Network Manager (ITNM) IP Edition Nagios ○ OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios Core ○ OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios XI Chassis and Server Managers • • • • Integrated Dell
2 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.
Table 1. OpenManage Enterprise feature and benefits(continued) Feature Description Benefits It also allows them the flexibility of integrating OpenManage Enterprise into their existing IT processes. Custom reports IT administrators can use a powerful reporting engine to create customized reports. Provides IT Admins rapid and easy access to specific device information.
OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager is a plugin for OpenManage Enterprise V3.2 and later. Power Manager provides power and thermal monitoring and management at a one to many level. The features of Power Manager are: • • • Measure and manage power consumption and monitors thermal readings—OME Power Manager provides greater insight into a data center's energy usage through detailed measurement of energy consumption throughout a data center.
On 14th generation of the PowerEdge servers or MX7000: OMM can access PowerEdge 14th generation servers or MX7000 through Quick Sync 2 module. After it gets connected, IT administrators can configure IP addresses and BIOS settings, share Dell EMC SupportAssist reports, view server inventory, health status and logs, or power cycle a server.
the iDRAC, OpenManage Enterprise, and OpenManage Enterprise Modular. Ansible is an automation tool that can configure systems, deploy software, and perform more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. With OpenManage Ansible Modules for PowerEdge servers, data center and IT administrators can rapidly deploy their infrastructure, change server configurations, and manage configuration drift against a known baseline. For more information, see www.dell.
It runs on the PowerEdge M9002m management module (MM) firmware. OME-Modular facilitates configuration and management of a stand-alone PowerEdge MX7000 chassis or group of MX7000 chassis from one Graphical User Interface (GUI). You can use OMEModular to deploy servers and update firmware. You can also manage the overall health of the chassis and its components such as compute sleds, networks, input or output modules (IOMs), and storage devices.
• iDRAC RESTful API: It provides a RESTful interface that expands upon the DMTF Redfish standard with the Dell EMC operations. It includes the RESTful server configuration, modular server feature support, and detailed OS networking inventory and status. iDRAC RESTful API—with Redfish support: In 2015, the DMTF Scalable platforms Management Forum published iDRAC RESTful API—with Redfish support.
Dell EMC System Update Dell EMC System Update (DSU) is CLI optimized application used to distribute the Dell EMC PowerEdge server updates for Linux and Microsoft Windows operating systems. DSU is a script optimized tool, that provides enhanced ease of use, automation and flexibility. DSU works on a wide range of operating systems, including RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu, and Windows Server. Dell EMC System Update v1.
Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center for System Center Configuration Manager Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center (OMIMSSC) for System Center Configuration Manager provides agentfree, operating system and hypervisor agnostic configuration, OS deployment, and firmware updates for PowerEdge servers.
• • Preparing an ideal server configuration, also known as a Golden Configuration, based on the IT Administrator defined standards to enable rapid and consistent replication of the same configuration on servers that are targeted for deployment into the virtual environment. Enabling IT Administrators in developing and maintaining policy and profile-based configuration templates to reduce repetitive management tasks and time consumption.
• • • • Alerting and monitoring environment for servers and chassis Monitoring and reporting for servers and chassis Updating firmware on servers, including with vSAN clusters Deploying enhanced options For more information, see www.dell.com/support/article/sln311238. OpenManage Integration with ServiceNow Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with ServiceNow helps enterprise organizations in improving their operations efficiency. It bridges the gap between their service and operations management processes.
Dell EMC Smart Plug-in for HPE Operations Manager for Windows Dell EMC Smart Plug-in (SPI) for Micro Focus Operations Manager provides both agent-free (out-of-band) and agent-based (in-band) options for discovery, classification, and monitoring of the following Dell EMC devices in the datacenter environments managed by the Micro Focus Operations Manager: • • • • • • PowerEdge servers iDRAC Dell EMC Modular infrastructure Dell EMC Storage arrays Dell EMC Networking devices Dell EMC Workstation You can also
• • • • Dell EMC Modular Infrastructure Dell EMC Storage Arrays Dell EMC Networking devices Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) With this plug-in, you have comprehensive hardware-level visibility and health monitoring information of the Dell EMC devices including both overall and component-level health monitoring for quicker fault detection and resolution. For more information, see the OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios Core User’s Guide available at www.dell.com/esmmanuals.
3 Legacy — Dell EMC Hardware Management Tools Topics: • • • • • OpenManage Server Administrator Baseboard Management Controller Management Utilities Dell Remote Access Configuration Tool OpenManage Deployment Toolkit Dell IPMI Tool OpenManage Server Administrator The OpenManage Server Administrator provides a comprehensive one-to-one systems management solution for both local and remote servers and their storage controllers and Direct Attached Storage (DAS).
The OpenManage Deployment Toolkit includes a set of utilities for configuring and deploying PowerEdge systems. It is designed for customers who want to build scripted installations to deploy large numbers of servers without making many changes to their current deployment process. In addition to the command-line utilities used to configure various system features, the Deployment Toolkit also provides sample scripts and configuration files to perform common deployment tasks.
4 Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site You can access the required documents using the following links: • • • • • • • • For Dell EMC Enterprise Systems Management documents — www.dell.com/SoftwareSecurityManuals For Dell EMC OpenManage documents — www.dell.com/OpenManageManuals For Dell EMC Remote Enterprise Systems Management documents — www.dell.com/esmmanuals For iDRAC documents — www.dell.com/idracmanuals For Dell EMC OpenManage Connections Enterprise Systems Management documents — www.
5 Contacting Dell EMC NOTE: If you do not have an active Internet connection, you can find contact information on your purchase invoice, packing slip, bill, or Dell EMC product catalog. Dell provides several online and telephone-based support and service options. Availability varies by country and product, and some services may not be available in your area. To contact Dell EMC for sales, technical support, or customer service issues, see www.dell.com/ contactdell.
