Users Guide
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Chassis Monitoring Feature
The Chassis monitoring feature supports discovery and monitoring of Chassis Management Controller (CMC) on Dell PowerEdge
FX2/FX2s chassis, Dell PowerEdge VRTX chassis, Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis, and Dell OEM Ready chassis using SNMP or
WS-MAN protocol.
Chassis monitoring feature also supports Detailed monitoring of individual chassis components in the supported OpsMgr.
Discovery and grouping
The Dell Server Management Pack Suite enables you to discover and classify Dell Chassis Management Controllers (CMC), Dell
PowerEdge FX2/ FX2s, Dell PowerEdge M1000e, and Dell PowerEdge VRTX.
The following table lists the details of the hardware discovery and grouping by the Dell CMC monitoring feature.
Table 25. Dell Hardware discovery and grouping.
Group Diagram View Hardware Type
Dell CMC Dell Chassis Management Controllers
(CMC) group
CMC instances on the network, chassis
slot summary and server modules for
CMC.
Dell PowerEdge M1000e Dell M1000e Chassis group
Dell PowerEdge M1000e
Dell PowerEdge VRTX Dell VRTX Chassis group
Dell PowerEdge VRTX
Dell FX2 Dell FX2 Chassis Group
Dell PowerEdge FX2
Discovering Chassis devices
The Chassis devices should be discovered as network devices under the Administration section of the OpsMgr console.
To discover Chassis devices:
1. Log on to the management server as an OpsMgr administrator.
2. On the OpsMgr console, click Administration.
3. At the bottom of the navigation pane, click Discovery Wizard.
4. Run the Discovery Wizard, select Network devices and follow the instructions on the screen.
For more information, see the OpsMgr documentation at technet.microsoft.com.
NOTE: Select the Run As Account created for discovering the chassis devices. For more information, see the
"Configuring Dell Chassis Management Controller feature for correlating Server modules with Chassis slot
summary" section of the
Dell Server Management Pack Suite Version 6.3 for Microsoft System Center Operations
Manager Installation Guide
at dell.com/OMConnectionsEnterpriseSystemsManagement.
5. On the Add a Device console screen in OpsMgr, type the IP address that you want to scan, select the appropriate Run As
Account from the SNMP V1 or V2 Run As Account drop-down box.
6. Enable the Chassis monitoring feature using the Feature Management Dashboard.
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