Reference Guide

In OpenManage Enterprise, the Onboarding job runs automatically after every Discovery job and tries to onboard any

compute device that has been discovered via its iDRAC interface, using the WSMAN protocol. Once devices are

discovered, whether they are monitored or managed by OpenManage Enterprise can be seen from the All Devices

view, by looking at the Onboarding state. This is shown in the “All Devices” screenshot below, by looking in the far

right-hand column (“Onboarding State”). Note in that example that the servers are all “managed” by the console,

which means that management tasks can be executed on those servers.

Figure 2: OpenManage Enterprise console showing the Onboarding State (far right column) of servers. Note that all the

servers are set to “Managed” state, meaning that management tasks can be executed on them.

The Onboarding State is only applicable to server devices that have been discovered via their iDRAC interfaces.

The iDRAC interface is contacted via the WSMAN protocol. Other device types, such as switches, are contacted

via SNMP, and therefore are only monitored via OpenManage Enterprise.

A full listing of the Onboarding States is in Table 1 below:

Onboarding State

Meaning

Managed

Administrator credentials to the device have been validated and all management tasks

such as power control can be performed on the device.

Monitored

For servers discovered via their iDRAC interface via WSMAN, only monitoring of these

devices can be performed, as non-administrator credentials were used for discovery.

For other device types, such as chassis, switch and servers discovered via their host

OS, or IPMI.

Error

Applicable to servers that have been discovered via their iDRAC interface using the

WSMAN protocol. There was an error in onboarding the server. Management

operations cannot be performed on the server.

Managed with Alerts

Applicable to servers that have been discovered via their iDRAC interface using the

WSMAN protocol. In addition to being able to perform management operations on the

server, OpenManage Enterprise is a recipient of all alerts from this server.

Default

This is the state allocated to all devices before onboarding runs. This changes to one of

the other states as the onboarding job runs.

Table 1: A full listing of the OpenManage Enterprise “Onboarding States”