User's Manual

Introduction

This document is intended for system administrators who use the Dell Server PRO Management Pack (Dell PRO Pack) to

monitor Dell systems and take remedial action when an inefficient system is identified.

The Dell PRO Pack 3.0 integrates with the following:

• Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manger

• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

• Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)

This integration enables you to proactively manage virtual environments and ensure high availability of your Dell

systems.

To implement PRO Pack, see the

Dell Server PRO Management Pack 3.0 for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine

Manager Installation guide

Also, see Features and Functionalities.

CAUTION: Due to the possibility of data corruption and/or data loss, it is recommended that the procedures in this

document should be performed only by personnel with knowledge and experience of using the Microsoft Windows

operating system and System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, System Center 2012 Operations Manager, and

Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager.

NOTE: The readme file, DellMPv30_PROPack_Readme.txt, contains information about the software and

management station requirements, and known issues. It is available at

support.dell.com/manuals. The readme file

is also packaged in the self-extracting executable Dell_PROPack_v3.0.0_A00.exe.

NOTE: All references to Operations Manager in this document is applicable to System Center Operations Manager

2007 R2 and System Center 2012 Operations Manager unless otherwise specified.

What's New in This Release

This release of PRO Pack supports the following:

• Microsoft System Center 2012 Operation Manger

• Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)

NOTE: PRO Pack 3.0 does not integrate with older versions of Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

• Support for Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers.

Overview

Operations Manager uses PRO-enabled Management Pack to collect and store information on Dell hardware along with

a description of their health status. Dell PRO Pack works with Operations Manager and VMM 2012 to manage Dell

physical devices and their hosted virtual machines (VMs) using this available health information. Dell PRO Pack

recommends remedial actions when monitored objects transition to an unhealthy state (for example, virtual disk failure

or predictive drive error), by leveraging the monitoring and alerting capabilities of Operations Manager and remediation

capabilities of VMM.

Also see: