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DELL EMC System Update (DSU)

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Revision 24 posted to Systems Management - Wiki by RayHebert on 2/8/2018 4:04:15 PM

What is DELL EMC System Update (DSU)


DELL EMC System Update (DSU) is a CLI optimized tool that ensures that the Dell PowerEdge systems are up-to-date with the latest BIOS, firmware, and software. DSU contains

  • BIOS and firmware updates for server platforms

Getting DSU

DSU is available as a Dell Update Package (DUP). DSU DUP

  • Windows DUP supports Windows OS's listed below
  • Linux DUP supports RHEL/SLES/Ubuntu OS's listed below

DSU RPM for RHEL/SLES is also available.  DSU RPM

 

Documentation:

DSU User Guide (HTML Format)

DSU User Guide (PDF Format)

Supported Operating Systems

Linux (RHEL and SUSE)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 (x86_64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (x86_64)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11SP4 (x86_64)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12SP2 (x86_64)

Microsoft Windows

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (x86_64)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012(x86_64)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 (x86_64)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (x86_64)

Support for Ubuntu operating systems

Starting with DSU 1.4, support for Ubuntu operating systems is pre-enabled  and the support is limited. All the DSU commands may function as usual without any issues. For more information
on the catalog that has the updates for Ubuntu operating system, refer Ubuntu Catalog

  • Ubuntu LTS 14.04
  • Ubuntu LTS 16.04

Note:  Support for Ubuntu is pre-enabled only on 12th and 13th generation of PowerEdge systems.

 

Supported Platforms: PowerEdge Servers

Updates Change Log:  A list of what has changed between the previous Repository and the most current.  Change Log


DELL EMC Catalogs

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What is Catalog ?
What's New + Downloads

 

What is Catalog?

DELL EMC PowerEdge Server Catalogs

DELL EMC PowerEdge Server Catalogs are an aggregation of all Bundles and Dell Update Packages’ metadata carried for Dell EMC PowerEdge 11G, 12G and 13G servers, as well as select Dell PowerVault and Dell EqualLogic Servers

 

DELL EMC PowerEdge Server Catalogs are refreshed every month on the 2nd and 4th Friday.

DELL EMC Online Catalog:  General catalog that is used by many DELL EMC tools such as DELL EMC Repository Manager, OpenManage Essentials, ASM and other tools.

DELL EMC LC Catalog:  Same content as the DELL EMC Online Catalog, but saved in .gz format for use with DELL EMC Lifecycle Controller

DELL EMC SDP Catalog:  Same content as the DELL EMC Online Catalog, but saved in the format required my Microsoft SCUP.

**Note:  Dell PowerEdge 9G and 10G servers have reached end of support life, new catalogs do not carry content for these platforms.

What's New + Downloads

Online Catalog

DatePDK Catalog (cab format)PDK Catalog (gz format)sign file (for gz format)
02/09/2018FOLDER04806147MFOLDER04806148MFOLDER04806149M
01/26/2018FOLDER04786957MFOLDER04786960MFOLDER04786961M
12/22/2017FOLDER04727585MFOLDER04727586MFOLDER04727587M
12/08/2017FOLDER04697458MFOLDER04697459MFOLDER04697460M
11/24/2017FOLDER04682647MFOLDER04682648MFOLDER04682649M
11/10/2017FOLDER04642470MFOLDER04642471MFOLDER04642472M
10/27/2017FOLDER04621530MFOLDER04621532MFOLDER04621534M
10/13/2017FOLDER04592908MFOLDER04592910MFOLDER04592912M
09/22/2017FOLDER04565919MFOLDER04565920MFOLDER04565924M
09/08/2017FOLDER04523371MFOLDER04523374MFOLDER04523375M
08/25/2017FOLDER04499434MFOLDER04499436MFOLDER04499437M
08/11/2017FOLDER04473298MFOLDER04473299MFOLDER04473300M
07/25/2017FOLDER04450198MFOLDER04450199MFOLDER04450200M
07/14/2017FOLDER04424673MFOLDER04424674MFOLDER04424675M
06/23/2017FOLDER04392367MFOLDER04392368MFOLDER04392369M
06/09/2017FOLDER04365326MFOLDER04365327MFOLDER04365328M
05/12/2017FOLDER04312615MFOLDER04312617MFOLDER04312618M
04/28/2017FOLDER04298363MFOLDER04298364MFOLDER04298365M
04/14/2017FOLDER04276961MFOLDER04270941MFOLDER04270942M
03/24/2017FOLDER04241318MFOLDER04241320MFOLDER04241321M
03/09/2017FOLDER04220535MFOLDER04220536MFOLDER04220537M
02/24/2017FOLDER04193711MFOLDER04193712MFOLDER04193713M
02/10/2017FOLDER04172238MFOLDER04172277MFOLDER04172278M
12/23/2016FOLDER04158860M (10G)
12/12/2014FOLDER02730016M (9G)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date            LC Catalog         LC Catalog sign file  
02/09/2018FOLDER04806158MFOLDER04806159M
01/26/2018FOLDER04787001MFOLDER04787003M
12/22/2017FOLDER04727592MFOLDER04727593M
12/08/2017FOLDER04697465MFOLDER04697466M
11/24/2017FOLDER04682662MFOLDER04682663M
11/10/2017FOLDER04651727MFOLDER04651728M
10/27/2017FOLDER04621547MFOLDER04621548M
10/13/2017FOLDER04598500MFOLDER04598501M
09/22/2017FOLDER04562987MFOLDER04562988M
09/08/2017FOLDER04523380MFOLDER04523381M
08/25/2017FOLDER04498956MFOLDER04498957M
08/11/2017FOLDER04473303MFOLDER04473305M
07/25/2017FOLDER04450208MFOLDER04450210M
07/14/2017FOLDER04443713MFOLDER04443714M
06/23/2017FOLDER04392381MFOLDER04392382M
06/09/2017FOLDER04376070MFOLDER04376071M
05/12/2017FOLDER04312628MFOLDER04312630M
04/28/2017FOLDER04298367MFOLDER04298368M
04/14/2017FOLDER04276962MFOLDER04276963M
03/24/2017FOLDER04240280MFOLDER04240281M
03/09/2017FOLDER04220531MFOLDER04220532M
02/24/2017FOLDER04181267MFOLDER04181268M
02/10/2017FOLDER04172246MFOLDER04172247M
01/27/2017FOLDER04156681MFOLDER04156682M
01/13/2017FOLDER04129459MFOLDER04129460M
12/23/2016FOLDER04102567MFOLDER04102568M

DateSDP Catalog
12/22/2017FOLDER04727664M
12/08/2017FOLDER04697469M
11/24/2017FOLDER04682870M
11/10/2017FOLDER04642487M
10/27/2017FOLDER04621561M
10/13/2017FOLDER04589307M
09/22/2017FOLDER04557799M
09/08/2017FOLDER04524504M
08/25/2017FOLDER04498965M
08/11/2017FOLDER04473312M
07/25/2017FOLDER04450237M
07/19/2017FOLDER04424680M
06/23/2017FOLDER04393383M
06/09/2017FOLDER04365434M
05/12/2017FOLDER04312644M
04/28/2017FOLDER04298371M
04/14/2017FOLDER04276957M
03/24/2017FOLDER04240299M
03/09/2017FOLDER04220526M
02/24/2017FOLDER04181258M
02/10/2017FOLDER04172260M
01/27/2017FOLDER04157163M
01/13/2017FOLDER04129542M
12/23/2016FOLDER04158866M (10G)
12/12/2014FOLDER02729544M (9G)

OpenManage Server Administrator - OMSA

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Revision 171 posted to Systems Management - Wiki by DELL-Martijn G on 2/13/2018 8:34:26 AM

Contents: Documentation - Downloads - Whitepapers - Resources

Dell OpenManage

Dell OpenManage is a set of systems management applications built using industry standard protocols and specifications. Dell OpenManage is not a product within itself, but rather a brand name for the suite of products in the portfolio. Server Administrator (OMSA) is part of OpenManage family.

You can refer various Enterprise Systems Management manuals to learn more about the Dell products.

Dell OpenManage Server Admininstrator

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) is a software agent that provides a comprehensive, one-to-one systems management solution in two ways: from an integrated, Web browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) and from a command line interface (CLI) through the operating system.

OMSA is designed so that system administrators can manage server systems both locally and remotely on a network. It also interfaces with OpenManage Essentials (OME) console, which allows for monitoring of the systems in your data center from a single interface.

Details for Server Administrator v9.1

Release date - 12 December 2017
The links to the download can be found at: OMSA v9.1 Download.

For more details on the Dell EMC OpenManage Server Administrator release lifecycle, click here.

Installation:

  • Support for the following operating systems:
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2016
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
    • VMware ESXi 6.5
    • VMware ESXi 6.0 U3
    • Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus) from PowerEdge 14G servers onwards

NOTE: Citrix XenServer Operating System support has been dropped for both Server Administrator and Storage Management.

Compatible Systems:

PowerEdge XR2

PowerEdge C4130

PowerEdge C4140

PowerEdge C6320

PowerEdge C6320p

PowerEdge C6400

PowerEdge C6420

PowerEdge FC430

PowerEdge FC630

PowerEdge FC640

PowerEdge FC830

PowerEdge FM120x4
(for PE FX2/FX2s)

PowerEdge M420

PowerEdge M520
(for PE VRTX)

PowerEdge M610

PowerEdge M610x

PowerEdge M620

PowerEdge M620
(for PE VRTX)

PowerEdge M630

PowerEdge M630
(for PE VRTX)

PowerEdge M640

PowerEdge M640
(for PE VRTX)

PowerEdge M710

PowerEdge M710HD

PowerEdge M820

PowerEdge M820
(for PE VRTX)

PowerEdge M830

PowerEdge M830
(for PE VRTX)

PowerEdge M910

PowerEdge M915

PowerEdge R210

PowerEdge R210 II

PowerEdge R220

PowerEdge R230

PowerEdge R310

PowerEdge R320

PowerEdge R330

PowerEdge R410

PowerEdge R415

PowerEdge R420

PowerEdge R430

PowerEdge R440

PowerEdge R510

PowerEdge R515

PowerEdge R520

PowerEdge R530

PowerEdge R530xd

PowerEdge R540

PowerEdge R610

PowerEdge R620

PowerEdge R630

PowerEdge R640

PowerEdge R6415

PowerEdge R6415

PowerEdge R710

PowerEdge R715

PowerEdge R720

PowerEdge R720xd

PowerEdge R730

PowerEdge R730xd

PowerEdge R740

PowerEdge R740xd

PowerEdge R7415

PowerEdge R7415

PowerEdge R7425

PowerEdge R7425

PowerEdge R810

PowerEdge R815

PowerEdge R820

PowerEdge R830

PowerEdge R910

PowerEdge R920

PowerEdge R930

PowerEdge R940

PowerEdge T110

PowerEdge T110 II

PowerEdge T130

PowerEdge T310

PowerEdge T320

PowerEdge T330

PowerEdge T410

PowerEdge T420

PowerEdge T430

PowerEdge T440

PowerEdge T610

PowerEdge T620

PowerEdge T630

PowerEdge T640

PowerEdge T710

Precision Rack 7910

Enhancements:

  • Support for the following web browsers:
    • Google Chrome version 57
    • Google Chrome version 58
    • Mozilla Firefox version 52
    • Mozilla Firefox version 53
    • Internet Explorer 11
    • Internet Explorer 10
    • Safari version 10.x
  • Support for the following features:
    • Support for Java Runtime Environment 8 Update 131.
    • Upgraded Tomcat version to 8.5.15.
    • Minimum supported TLS version is TLSv1.1.
    • Encryption Ciphers list has been updated as per OWASP Apache Tomcat Security Standards.
    • Supports NVDIMM (Non Volatile DIMM) monitoring in PowerEdge 14G servers.
    • Supports System Configuration Lockdown Mode in PowerEdge 14G servers.
    • Supports Full Power Cycle capability under BIOS settings which enables DC Power cycle followed by AC Power cycle of the auxiliary components (includes iDRAC, CPLD, etc.).
    • Server Administrator Shared Service which is used to invoke the Inventory Collector would be disabled by default during installation of Server Administrator. In order to invoke Inventory Collector explicitly customer should enable it through Server Administrator command line interface.
    • Server Administrator ESXi VIB leverages the ESXi OS Live installation capability so that a host OS reboot will not be required post installation or removal of the VIB.
  • Added Support for the following Network cards:
    • Emulex LightPulse LPe31000-M6-D 1-Port 16Gb Full Height Fibre Channel Adapter
    • Emulex LightPulse LPe31000-M6-D 1-Port 16Gb Low Profile Fibre Channel Adapter
    • Emulex LightPulse LPe31002-M6-D 2-Port 16Gb Full Height Fibre Channel Adapter
    • Emulex LightPulse LPe31002-M6-D 2-Port 16Gb Low Profile Fibre Channel Adapter
    • Mellanox ConnectX-4 Dual Port EDR VPI QSFP28 Low Profile Adapter
    • Mellanox ConnectX-4 Dual Port EDR VPI QSFP28 Full Height Network Adapter
    • Mellanox ConnectX-4 Single Port EDR VPI QSFP28 Low Profile Adapter
    • Mellanox ConnectX-4 Single Port EDR VPI QSFP28 Full Height Network Adapter
    • Harbor Channel - Intel(R) Ethernet 25G 2P XXV710 Adapter (25GBE PCIe Adapter)
    • QLogic Duluth - FH - 10Gb Dual Port BT Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41162HFRJ-DL-BK (without optics)
    • QLogic Duluth - LP - 10Gb Dual Port BT Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41162HLRJ-DL-BK (without optics)
    • QLogic Dunkirk - 10- FH - 10Gb Dual Port SFP Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41112HFCU-DL-BK (without optics)
    • QLogic Dunkirk - 10- LP - 10Gb Dual Port SFP Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41112HLCU-DL-BK (without optics)
    • QLogic Dunkirk - FH - 10/25Gb Dual Port SFP28 Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41262HFCU-DL-BK (without optics)
    • QLogic Dunkirk - LP - 10/25Gb Dual Port SFP28 Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41262HLCU-DL-BK (without optics)
    • QLogic Dundee - FH - 10Gb Quad Port BT Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41164HFRJ-DL (without optics)
    • QLogic Dundee - LP - 10Gb Quad Port BT Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41164HLRJ-DL (without optics)
    • QLogic Delray - FH - 10Gb Quad Port SFP Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41164HFCU-DL (without optics)
    • QLogic Delray - LP - 10Gb Quad Port SFP Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41164HLCU-DL (without optics)
    • QLogic Dardanelle - rNDC - 10/25Gb Dual Port SFP28 Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41262HMCU-DL (without optics)
    • QLogic Darwin - rNDC - 10Gb Dual Port BT Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41164HMRJ-DL (without optics)
    • QLogic Dresden - rNDC - 10Gb Dual Port SFP Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41164HMCU-DL (without optics)
    • QLogic Dartmouth - rNDC - 1Gb & 10Gb 2+2 Port BT Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41264HMCU-DL-BK (without optics)
    • QLogic Dunedin - rNDC - 1Gb & 10Gb 2+2 Port SFP Arrowhead based Converged Network Adapter QL41264HMCURJ-DL-BK (without optics)

Storage Management:

  • Added new functionalities in Storage Management:
    • Support for "Prepare To Remove" operation for PCIe SSD devices through PERC S140 controller.
    • Support for setting the critical threshold and warning threshold for available spare and alert generation.
    • Support for the following Intel Cliffdale devices are added: P4500, and P4600
    • Support for CAPONE V2 (BOSS) device.
    • Support for Ubuntu 16.04.3 operating system.

Details for Server Administrator v8.5

Release date - 21 March 2017
The links to the download can be found at: OMSA v8.5 Download

Installation:

  • Added support for the following operating systems:
    • VMware ESXi 6.5
    • VMware ESXi 6.0 U3
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2016

NOTE: Citrix XenServer Operating System support has been dropped for both Server Administrator and Storage Management.

Compatible Systems:

PowerEdge C4130

PowerEdge C6320

PowerEdge FC430

Poweredge FC630

Poweredge FC830

PowerEdge FM120x4
(for PE FX2/FX2s)

PowerEdge M420

PowerEdge M520

PowerEdge M520
(for PE VRTX)

PowerEdge M600

PowerEdge M605

PowerEdge M610

PowerEdge M610x

PowerEdge M620

PowerEdge M620
(for PE VRTX)

PowerEdge M630

PowerEdge M630
(for PE VRTX)

PowerEdge M710

PowerEdge M710HD

PowerEdge M805

PowerEdge M820

PowerEdge M820
(for PE VRTX)

PowerEdge M830

PowerEdge M830
(for PE VRTX)

PowerEdge M905

PowerEdge M910

PowerEdge M915

PowerEdge R200

PowerEdge R210

PowerEdge R210 II

PowerEdge R220

PowerEdge R230

PowerEdge R300

PowerEdge R310

PowerEdge R320

PowerEdge R330

PowerEdge R410

PowerEdge R415

PowerEdge R420

PowerEdge R430

PowerEdge R510

PowerEdge R515

PowerEdge R520

PowerEdge R530

PowerEdge R530xd

PowerEdge R610

PowerEdge R620

PowerEdge R630

PowerEdge R710

PowerEdge R715

PowerEdge R720

PowerEdge R720xd

PowerEdge R730

PowerEdge R730xd

PowerEdge R805

PowerEdge R810

PowerEdge R815

PowerEdge R820

PowerEdge R830

PowerEdge R900

PowerEdge R905

PowerEdge R910

PowerEdge R920

PowerEdge R930

PowerEdge T110

PowerEdge T110 II

PowerEdge T130

PowerEdge T300

PowerEdge T310

PowerEdge T320

PowerEdge T330

PowerEdge T410

PowerEdge T420

PowerEdge T430

PowerEdge T605

PowerEdge T610

PowerEdge T620

PowerEdge T630

PowerEdge T710

Enhancements

  • Support for the following web browsers:
    • Internet Explorer - 9, 10, 11
    • Microsoft Edge 25
    • Google Chrome - 54
    • Safari - 9.x
    • Mozilla Firefox - 50, 51
  • Support for Java Runtime Environment 8 Update 112.
  • SD card support for 32 GB and 64 GB.

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Documentation

Note: See the OpenManage Software page, for documents related to OpenManage Systems Management Overview Guide, Software Support Matrix, Software Compatibility Matrix, Port Information Guide, Messages Reference Guide, and so on.

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Version 9.1Documentation

Refer all the below documents from the Server Administrator v9.1 Manuals page.

  • Dell EMC Server Administrator Storage Management 9.1 Users Guide PDFHTML
  • Dell EMC OpenManage Server Administrator Version 9.1 User's Guide PDFHTML

Additional documents

  • Dell EMC OpenManage Command Line Interface Guide Version 9.1 PDFHTML
  • Dell EMC OpenManage SNMP Reference Guide Version 9.1 PDFHTML
  • SNMP Reference Guide for iDRAC and Chassis Management Controller PDFHTML
  • Dell EMC Systems Management Tools And Documentation Installation Guide Version 9.1 PDFHTML
  • Dell EMC OpenManage Installation Guide Microsoft Windows Version 9.1 PDFHTML
  • Dell EMC OpenManage Version Port Information Guide Version 9.1 PDFHTML
  • Dell EMC OpenManage CIM Reference Guide Version 9.1 PDFHTML
  • Dell EMC OpenManage Release Notes Version 9.1 PDFHTML
  • Dell EMC Systems Management Tools And Documentation Management Consoles Installation Release Notes Version 9.1 PDFHTML
  • Dell EMC Systems Management Tools And Documentation Supported Systems Release Notes Version 9.1 PDFHTML
  • Dell EMC OpenManage Installation and Management Release Notes Version 9.1 PDFHTML
  • Dell EMC OpenManage Software Compatibility Matrix Version 9.1 PDFHTML
  • Dell EMC OpenManage Message Reference Guide Version 9.1 PDFHTML
  • Dell EMC OpenManage Software Support Matrix Version 9.1 PDFHTML

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Version 8.5 Documentation

Refer all the below documents from the Server Administrator v8.5 Manuals page.

  • Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Version 8.5 Command Line Interface Guide PDFHTML
  • Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Version 8.5 User's Guide PDFHTML
  • Server Administrator Storage Management 8.5 Users Guide PDFHTML
  • Systems Management Tools And Documentation Version 8.5 Installation Guide PDFHTML
  • Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Version 8.5 User's Guide PDF

Additional documents

  • Dell OpenManage Systems Management Overview Guide Version 11.0 PDF
  • Dell OpenManage Systems Management Overview Guide Version 11.0 PDFHTML
  • Server Administrator Version 8.5 Installation Guide Linux PDFHTML
  • Server Administrator Version 8.5 Installation Guide Microsoft Windows PDFHTML
  • Dell OpenManage Version 8.5 Port Information Guide PDFHTML
  • Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Version 8.5 CIM Reference Guide PDFHTML
  • Server Administrator 8.5 Release Notes PDFHTML
  • Dell OpenManage SNMP Reference Guide Version 8.5 PDFHTML
  • SNMP Reference Guide for iDRAC and Chassis Management Controller PDFHTML
  • Dell OpenManage Version 8.5 Port Information Guide PDF
  • Dell OpenManage Systems Management Software Compatibility Matrix Version 8.5 PDFHTML
  • Server Administrator Version 8.5 Messages Reference Guide PDFHTML
  • Setting Up Your Dell PowerEdge Server Using Dell Lifecycle Controller PDF
  • Dell Systems Management - OpenManage Software Support Matrix Version 8.5 PDFHTML

Previous Server Administrator Documentation

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Manuals

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Downloads

OMSA v9.1 Downloads

OMSA v9.1 can be downloaded from the following links.
Please refer Server Administrator Installation Guide and Support Matrix to install these packages on the supported operating system.

Windows OMSA:

Windows miscellaneous:

Linux OMSA:

Linux miscellaneous:

ESXi OMSA VIB:

To use the ESXi VIB with VMWare vSphere application, you can utilize the packages from Dell VMWare depot.

Miscellaneous:

OMSA v8.5 Downloads

OMSA v8.5 can be downloaded from the following links.
Please refer Server Administrator Installation Guide and Support Matrix to install these packages on the supported operating system.

Windows OMSA:

Windows miscellaneous:

Linux OMSA:

Linux miscellaneous:

ESXi OMSA VIB:

To use the ESXi VIB with VMWare vSphere application, you can utilize the packages from Dell VMWare depot.

Miscellaneous:

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Resources

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Whitepapers

Tags: server administrator, storage management, Downloading Server Administrator, openmanage, openmanage server, OMSA, Installing the Server Administrator, administrator, Citrix XenServer, Configuring RAID 5, Web Server interface, Openmanage systems management, OMSS, RSS, video, virtual disks

Dell Server PRO Management Pack

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Contents: Download - Documentation- Forum


Operations Manager uses PRO-enabled Management Pack to collect and store information on the Dell hardware along with a description of their health status. Dell EMC Server PRO Pack works with SCOM and SCVMM to manage Dell physical devices and their hosted virtual machines (VMs) using this available health information.

Dell EMC Server PRO Pack recommends remedial actions when monitored objects transition to an unhealthy state (for example, virtual disk failure or predictive drive error), by using the monitoring and alerting capabilities of SCOM and remediation capabilities of SCVMM.

Key features:

  • Performs PRO-management of PowerEdge systems running Microsoft Hyper-V platforms, by continually monitoring the health of the physical and virtual infrastructure.
  • Works with SCOM and SCVMM to detect events such as loss of power supply redundancy, higher temperature than threshold values, system storage battery error, virtual disk failure, and so on.
  • Generates PRO Tip when the monitored hardware moves to an unhealthy state.
  • Performs VM live migration with no downtime.
  • Minimizes downtime by implementing the remedial action provided on PRO Tips.
    The two remedial actions are:
    • Restrict: In this mode, it is recommended that servers are made temporarily unavailable for placing new VMs till the maintenance tasks are complete.
    • Restrict and migrate: In this mode, it is recommended that all running VMs are migrated from an unhealthy server to a healthy server to prevent loss of service.

Product Download

Download Other Versions: OpenManage Integrations Installer Downloads

Product Documentation

v4.0

v3.0

v2.1

InstallationGuide

Installation Guide

Installation Guide

User's Guide

User's Guide

User's Guide

Readme

Readme

Readme

Tags: management pack, SCOM, MP, SCVMM, integrations, System Center, Enterprise Client, sccm, propack

Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit

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Current Revision posted to Systems Management - Wiki by DELL- Mainak R on 2/16/2018 7:18:54 AM

January 2018 - NOTICE!

This is an advance end-of-life (EOL) and deprecation notice for the Dell Deployment Toolkit (DTK). DTK will be sustained for current and earlier supported platforms until those platforms pass their end of support life (EOSL) threshold. Support for DTK on future platforms beyond the current 14th generation (14G) systems is not anticipated.

Dell recommends that customers using DTK transition to the Remote Access Controller Admin (RACADM) utility. RACADM is a command line tool that allows for remote or local management of Dell servers via the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) that is embedded in every PowerEdge server. RACADM provides similar functionality to the iDRAC’s web interface. Another plus is that the Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC), an embedded management controller for blade servers, can also be managed remotely with RACADM.
RACADM commands can be run remotely from a management station and/or locally on the managed system. RACADM commands allow operations such as viewing system information, performing power operations, firmware updates, and configuring settings. Since RACADM is run from a command line interface (CLI), system administrators can create scripts that control and update Dell multiple systems at the same time.

For more info on these alternatives, please visit the following links:
RACADM TechCenter:  http://dell.to/1jXAbz9
iDRAC TechCenter: http://delltechcenter.com/idrac

You can access the DellEMC Deployment Tool Kit (DTK) Porting Guide Version 1.0 from here. This provides further information towards DTK deprecation plan, for an existing user to self-sustain DTK environment and a smooth transition from DTK to RACADM. This guide used as a reference manual to add boot critical drivers and controller to support for the Dell Power Edge server platforms till 14G.

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The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) includes a set of utilities, sample scripts, and sample configuration files that you can use to deploy and configure the Dell systems. You can use DTK to build script-based and RPM-based installation for deploying large number of systems on a pre-operating system environment in a reliable way, without changing their current deployment processes. Using DTK you can install operating systems on Dell systems in BIOS or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) mode.

In addition to the command line utilities used to configure various system features, DTK also provides sample scripts and configuration files to perform common deployment tasks and documentation. These files and scripts describe the use of the DTK in Microsoft Windows Pre-installation Environment (Windows PE) and Linux environments.

The benefits of the DTK:

  • Provides the tools necessary to automate the pre-operating system configuration tasks and the unattended operating system installation tasks when deploying PowerEdge systems.
  • Scales to support from one to many system deployment efforts.
  • Facilitates consistent system configurations across multiple systems.
  • Provides diverse and useful deployment tools that can be utilized in many different ways.

Downloads

The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit is free of charge and can be downloaded here:

Whitepaper - Documents

RAIDCFG to RACADM Migration guide (using command MAP) - NEW Feb 2018!

This document helps to understand RAIDCFG utilities, scripts and transition guidelines for RACADM deployment and configuration of Dell PowerEdge servers in Windows and Linux environments.

Configuring Dell server deployments end to end with Deployment Took Kit

Above whitepaper targets the below functionalities

  • Use DTK to configure a bare metal server with both native and advanced options.
  • Proceed on to deploy an operating system (unattended). 
  • Continue Keeping your Dell Server's driver and firmware updated with System Update Utility (SUU).

Whitepaper - Videos

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Creating a WinPE 5.0 ISO file using Dell Open Manage Deployment Toolkit
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Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit 4.2 - RPM Installation on Linux Redhat
 
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Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) Version 4.1 Linux OS Installation
 
 
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DTK Windows OS Installation - Dell OpenManage Toolkit 4.1
 
 
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Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules

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Overview

Dell EMC OpenManage Ansible Modules allows Data Center and IT administrators to use RedHat Ansible to automate and orchestrate the provisioning, configuration, deployment, and update of PowerEdge Servers by leveraging the management automation capabilities in-built into the iDRAC (Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller). 

Ansible is an automation tool that can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate 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 will be able to rapidly deploy their infrastructure, change server configurations and will be able to manage configuration drift against a known baseline. 

Key Features in Version 1.0?

With OpenManage Ansible Modules, you would be able to automate the following life-cycle management tasks on PowerEdge Servers: 

  • PowerEdge Server Administration
    • Power Control - Power On/Off, Soft Power Cycle, Graceful Reboot etc.
  • iDRAC Configuration
    • User and Password Administration
    • iDRAC Network Configuration
    • SNMP and SNMP Alert Configuration
    • Time Zone and NTP Settings
    • System settings such as Location
    • Configure Lifecycle Controller (LC) attributes such as CSIOR
    • Remote Syslog Servers
    • iDRAC Web Server Configuration such as SSL Encryption Bits, TLS settings etc.
  • BIOS and Boot Order Configuration
    • Configure Boot Mode (Uefi / Bios)
    • Configure Uefi / Bios Boot sequence
    • Configure One-time boot settings
  • Storage Configuration
    • Create Virtual Drives with selected RAID Levels (0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60)
    • Delete Virtual Drives
  • OS Deployment
    • Deploy OS from a remote network file share (CIFS or NFS)
  • Firmware Update
    • Update firmware from a remote network file share (CIFS or NFS)
    • Export Firmware inventory as a JSON
    • Utilities to stage the firmware repository by downloading the Catalog files and Dell EMC Update Packages (DUPs)
  • Import / Export Server Configuration Profiles (SCP)
    • Export SCP to a remote network file share (CIFS or NFS) or locally
    • Import a SCP from a remote network  file share
  • Job and Job Queue Management
    • Retrieve status of a LC job 
    • Delete a job from LC job queue
    • Delete Job queue
  • Monitoring
    • Export LC logs to a remote file share
    • Export Tech Support Report to a remote file share

Downloads

Dell EMC OpenManageTM Ansible Modules V1.0is open-source and offered to customers and community as a stand-alone software and can be downloaded from the support.dell.com site here:

  • <TO BE UPDATED>

If you want to take advantage of the new features when they are implemented and want to contribute to the ongoing development, then you can go to Github repository using the following URLs and either clone or download the modules:

Documentation

Please refer to the OpenManage Ansible Modules Documentation. Sample playbooks and examples could be found under examples directory

Support

Please note that OpenManage Ansible Modules is in BETA development stage and therefore not ready for production. However, if you want to report any issues or provide any feedback, then please send an email to OpenManageAnsibleEval@dell.com.

We also have a #openmanageansible slack channel. You can get an invite by requesting one at http://community.codedellemc.com.

Licensing

OpenManage Ansible Modules are Open Source and licensed under GNU GPL v3.0 License. Please see the LICENSE for more information

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Redfish

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Redfish is a DMTF standard specification and schema that specifies a RESTful interface and utilizes JSON and OData to help customers integrate solutions within their existing tool chains.

The following documentation describes the use of Redfish API for Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC).

DMTF Materials on Redfish

iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish documentation and technical white papers

iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish automation tools

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DELL EMC Repository Manager (DRM)

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Dell EMC Repository Manager v3.0 (New Jan 2018)

Dell EMC Repository Manager (DRM) is an application within the Dell OpenManage portfolio that allows IT Administrators to easily manage system updates. Dell Repository Manager provides a searchable interface used to create custom software collections known as bundles and repositories of Dell Update Packages (DUPs).

These bundles and repositories allow for the deployment of multiple firmware updates at once. 

A Dell Update Package (DUP) is a self-contained executable in a standard package format that updates a specific software element on a Dell server such as the BIOS, a device driver, firmware, and other similar software updates.

Additionally, Dell EMC Repository Manager makes it easier to find and download specific updates for a particular platform, which saves time.

What is new in DRM v.3.0:

  • New HTML5-based interface

  • Both Linux and Windows versions with same features, functionality, and appearance

  • Command Line interface (CLI) options – allowing for customized automation of routine processes

  • New work flows for creating repositories

    • Easy to select just the platforms, OS, and desired devices

  • Repository versioning for easy roll back (or forward)

  • Web Service API for support of future Dell EMC consoles

  • Migration of repositories already created with DRM 2.2 during installation of DRM 3.0

  • Able to delete Multiple Repositories at once

  • Create Deployment tools for multiple Repositories at once.

  • Smart Bootable ISO and Smart Scripted Deployment Packs -- featuring Dell System Update (DSU) for orchestration of update process.

  • Automated discovery and loading of new Catalogs.

 How does Dell EMC Repository Manager Work?

DRM allows an IT administrator to either manually create a repository of updates or integrate with other Dell EMC tools like OpenManage Essentials, OpenManage Integration with VMware vCenter, OpenManage Integration with Microsoft System Center, Chassis Management Controller, or iDRAC to automate the creation of a custom repository.

Once a repository is created, an IT administrator can schedule searches for new updates, saving time otherwise spent manually searching through the Dell support site. An administrator can also create custom deployment tools such as custom catalogs that are used by Dell EMC Tools, a custom server update utility, scripted deployment packs, and/or bootable ISOs.

DRM connects to Dell's online catalog of updates that contains information on the available Dell Update Packages (DUPs). Once updates have been selected by a user, Dell EMC Repository Manager downloads the specific, requested files.

Dell EMC Repository Manager will also automate the refresh of repositories with the latest version of update packages or run a comparison and let an administrator select which new updates to include in the repository. DRM can then be used to create deployment tools from the contents of a repository.

What's New + Downloads

Release Summary

v 3.0

What's new:

• New HTML5-based interface
• Both Linux and Windows versions with same features, functionality, and appearance
• Command Line interface (CLI) options – allowing for customized automation of routine processes
• New work flows for creating repositories
o Easy to select just the platforms, OS, and desired devices
• Repository versioning for easy roll back (or forward)
• Web Service API for support of future Dell EMC consoles
• Migration of repositories already created with DRM 2.2 during installation of DRM 3.0
• Able to delete Multiple Repositories at once
• Create Deployment tools for multiple Repositories at once.
• Smart Bootable ISO and Smart Scripted Deployment Packs -- featuring Dell System Update (DSU) for orchestration of update process.
• Automate discover and loading of new Catalogs.

29 Jan 2018

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v 2.2

What's new:

  • Repository Manager integration with Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
  • Flexibility to do tasks at Repository Bundle level
  • Easy Access to Previous Catalogs
  • Quicker Deployment Tool creation with Concurrent Downloads

20 April 2016(download)

v2.1

What's new:

1. Performance:  Building deployment tools such as a Bootable ISO and Customized Server Update Utility has always been time consuming.  Internal testing shows 30-40% improvement in build times.
2. Web download Protocols:  DRM has been enhanced to better support HTTP and HTTPS protocols.  Additionally, DRM has implemented a Network Settings option to allow customers to selectively enable or disable web protocols
3. Managing Tasks:  DRM can now create a number of scheduled tasks, including notification of new updates and notification when new catalogs are available.  DRM then assists in managing these tasks by allowing for viewing and editing the scheduled tasks.
4. Context Sensitive Help:  DRM now has context sensitive help.
5. Prerequisite Installer:  DRM relies on Microsoft Windows .NET framework, and will assist in installing the required version without leaving the DRM installer.

20 Aug 2015 (download)

v2.0

New Features:

  • iDRAC Inventory integration:  DRM can extract an inventory file from a given system(s) and compare that to currently available updates.
  • Scheduled Repository Search will notify an administrator when a given repository has new updates. This search happens on a scheduled defined by the customer. If configured, DRM will also send an alert via email.
  • Email notification has been extended to include notification when a new catalog is available.
  • M1000e Inventory feature has been renamed Dell Modular Chassis Inventory, and this feature now also supports PowerEdge VRTX and FX2 systems.

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Manuals & Documents (home)
 v3.0  Installation Guide  v3.0 User's Guide 
 v3.0 Release Notes
 v3.0 Troubleshooting Guide

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Useful Links
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Repository Manager for Clients
OpenManage Essentials Home
OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Home
iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller Home

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White Papers for iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller Technology

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 White Papers

Product Pages

General Overview

OS Deployment

Active Directory Integration & Certificates

iDRAC7/8 White Papers

Networking and I/O configuration

Updates

Monitoring and Alerting

Scripting and Server Configuration Profiles

Storage & PERC

SupportAssist & Part Replacement

Lifecycle Controller Home

BIOS and UEFI

Security

 iDRAC Service Module (iSM)

 

General Overview

Comparison of iDRAC8 versus iDRAC9 Features (New for 14G)

Ordering New Features and Options on iDRAC9 and 14G PowerEdge Servers (New for 14G)

iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller—Best in class management for Dell EMC 14th generation PowerEdge Servers (New for 14G)

14G Support for HTTP and HTTPS across iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller Interfaces (New for 14G)

Comparing in and out-of-band functionality for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers (New for 14G)

Dell EMC PowerEdge Software Server Licensing  (New for 14G)

Systems Management Overview Guide v12(New for 14G)

Using Server Message Block (SMB) in iDRAC9 of Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers (New for 14G)

 

Networking and I/O configuration

(Direct from Dev) Multi-Vector Cooling (New for 14G)

Network Switch Connection View (New for 14G)

iDRAC Connection View(VIDEO) (New for 14G)

Understand Network Adapters Relationship with iDRAC (New for 14G)

Disabling a Third-Party PCIe Card Cooling Response with Dell PowerEdge Servers 

IPv6 Best Practices using iDRAC 

Managing IO Identity and Server State Information 

Optimizing I/O Identity and Applying Persistence Policy on Network and Fibre Channel Adapters 

Retrieving Server OS Networking Information through iDRAC 

Understanding PreBoot Networking on Dell PowerEdge Servers 

Auto-Discovery Network Setup Specification

Configuring BIOS and NIC Using RACADM through Dell iDRAC

Converged Network Adapters with NIC, iSCSI, and FCoE Support

OS to BMC Pass-through operation

FCoE Boot Configuration Setup on Intel Card

FCoE boot using Broadcom card

Network IO Identity

Reinitiate Auto-Discovery

Remote NIC Configuration Management  

 

Scripting and Server Configuration Profiles

Automated Server Management with PowerShell Using iDRAC REST API (New for 14G)

Server cloning by using Server Configuration Profiles (SCP) on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers (New for 14G)

RESTful Server Configuration with iDRAC REST API (Updated for 14G)

Optimizing WS-Man to retrieve Lifecycle Logs from iDRAC9 (New for 14G)

Implementation of the DMTF Redfish API on Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers (New for 14G)

WSMAN File Transfer(New for 14G)

Overview of Dell Systems Management using IPMI 

Understanding Physical Computer System View Profile Implementation 

Lifecycle Controller Workflow Optimization

Lifecycle Controller (with WS-Man) Best Practices Specification (Jan 2017)

Lifecycle Controller 2 Web Services Interface Guide (WS-Man Scripting Guide) for Windows  (Jan 2017)

Lifecycle Controller 2 Web Services Interface Guide (WS-Man Scripting Guide) for Linux (Jan 2017)

Dell PowerEdge Redfish API Overview

AutoConfig - Enabling rapid configuration of Dell servers using DHCP (Updated for 14G)

Creating Applications using the WSMAN API 

Methods to Save and Restore PowerEdge Server Configuration Settings and Firmware Images 

Using Filter Dialects with the WSMAN API 

Automatic Backup Server Profile

Creating and Managing Server Configuration Profiles

Hardware Inventory Viewing Script

How to Build Inventory Reports 

iDRAC Cloning

Import and Export Server Profiles

Server Configuration Profile - XML File Structure (files )

 

BIOS and UEFI

Signing UEFI images for Secure Boot feature in 14G Dell EMC PowerEdge servers (New for 14G)

Secure Boot Management on 14G Dell EMC PowerEdge servers (New for 14G)

Configuring Low-Latency Environments in PowerEdge Servers

Defining a Secure Boot Policy 

 

OS deployment

Unattended Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Operating System on Dell PowerEdge Servers Using iDRAC With Lifecycle Controller
Unattended Installation of Windows 2012 (12G and 13G)

Operating System Deployment in PowerEdge Servers

Operating Systems Deployment using iSCSI or FCOE LUN

 

Updates

After Meltdown- a quick reminder about PowerEdge BIOS update best practices

Firmware Update Dependency with Lifecycle Controller on 14G Dell EMC PowerEdge servers (new for 14G)

Creating and updating iDRAC repository with Repository Manager

Lifecycle Controller with Dell Repository Manager

PowerEdge Updates with Repository Manager Best Practices Guide

Recommended methods of Updating Firmware on Dell Servers

Recommended Workflow for Performing Firmware Updates on PowerEdge Servers

Remote Firmware Update

Using Dell Repository Manager to create a Bootable ISO and perform updates

 

Storage & PERC

Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and RAID-Level Migration (RLM) of VDs using PERC 9 & PERC 10 (New for 14G)

Dell’s vFlash SD Flash Media Card – Better Endurance and Performance via Over-Provisioning

Understanding Real Time Storage Configuration for PERC9(new for 13G)
Managing Web Server Certificates on iDRAC (New for 13G)
Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD Devie Monitoring, Inventory, and Configuration (New for 13G)
vFlash Overview

vFlash Partition Management 

vFlash using the Lifecycle Controller GUI

 

Security

Cyber-Resilient Security in 14th generation Dell EMC PowerEdge servers(Feb 2018)

Dell EMC iDRAC Response to CVE-2017-1000251 “BlueBorne”[26 Sept 2017]

(Direct from Dev) System Erase on PowerEdge Servers(New for 14G)

(Direct from Dev) Security in Server Design (New for 14G)

(Video) Secure Boot Configuration and Certificate Management using RACADM (New)  

(Video) Secure Boot Configuration and Certificate Management using WSMAN (New)  

Securing 14th generation Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with System Erase (New for 14G)

Factory Generated Default iDRAC9 Password(New for 14G)

 

Active Directory Integration & Certificates

 

Active Directory Setup Using Lifecycle Controller

Integrate iDRAC8 with Active Directory

Monitoring and Alerting

Understanding OpenManage Mobile (OMM) and Quick Sync Security (New for 14G)

Understanding iDRAC Quick Sync 2 (New for 14G)

Managing the Rollup Health status by using iDRAC on the Dell EMC 14th generation and later PowerEdge servers (New for 14G)

Monitoring & configuring Server Group by using iDRAC Group Manager (New for 14G)

Managing iDRAC9 Event Alerts on 14th generation (14G) Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers (New for 14G)

Accessing Remote Desktop using VNC on PowerEdge Servers (New for 14G)

Web Services Eventing Support for Hardware Inventory and Monitoring 

Pre-failure alerts provided by Dell server systems management 

Enhanced Out of Band Performance Monitoring 

Agent-free Inventory and Monitoring for Storage and Network Devices

Discovering Features in the iDRAC Remote Services API

 

Support Assist & Part Replacement

SupportAssist Collections on Dell EMC’s 14th generation of PowerEdge servers (New for 14G)

SupportAssist on Dell EMC’s 14th generation of PowerEdge servers (New for 14G)

Motherboard Replacement

Lifecycle Controller Part Replacement

Part Replacement

 

iDRAC Service Module (iSM)

Installing iDRAC Service Module (iSM) by using iDRAC9 on the 14th generation (14G) Dell EMC PowerEdge server (New for 14G)

iDRAC Service Module 2.1 or later on Ubuntu & Debian Linux Operating Systems

iDRAC Service Module - Windows Management Instrumentation

iDRAC Service Module - iDRAC CPU Hard Reset

iDRAC Service Module - iDRAC Access via Host OS

iDRAC Service Module - iDRAC SNMP Alerts

iDRAC Service Module - In-band iDRAC SNMP Alerts

iDRAC Service Module - iDRAC Access via Host Operating System

This technical white paper explains the factors driving the introduction of the factory generated default password feature for iDRAC9 for Dell EMC 14th generation (14G) PowerEdge servers. Also, it provides guidance on how to adopt the feature in terms of best practices for provisioning, configuring, and maintaining. Each of the above practices have a strong influence on the secure operation and assurance of iDRAC9 for 14G PowerEdge Servers. The feature has a major impact on the default user account password in terms of the factory-default or shipping value. Prior to this generation of servers, the password was a publically well-known value calvin used across all servers. This technical white paper introduces this new feature and attempts to cover the main aspects that are crucial in comprehending its impact on the system management processes and procedures.

Tags: Export Configuration, Using Network Share CIFS, License Feature, vFlash, iDRAC license from Lifecycle Controller, LC Whitepaper, Using Network Share NFS, backup, Importing from USB

Dell EMC PowerEdge Systems Management portfolio overview

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Summary

Dell Out-of-Band controllers

Dell Management Consoles

Dell Plugins for 3th party consoles

Standalone tools and utilities

Summary

Dell delivers management solutions that help IT Administrators effectively deploy, update, monitor, and manage IT assets. Dell OpenManage solutions and tools allow customers to quickly respond to problems by helping them to manage Dell servers effectively and efficiently; in physical, virtual, local, and remote environments, operating in-band and out-of-band (agent-free). The OpenManage portfolio includes innovative embedded management tools such as the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller.

Dell has developed comprehensive systems management solutions based on open standards and has integrated with management consoles that can perform advanced management of Dell hardware. Dell has connected or integrated the advanced management capabilities of Dell hardware into offerings from the industry’s top systems management vendors, thus making Dell platforms easy to deploy, update, monitor, and manage IT environments. If you have standardized on offerings from industry leaders such as BMC Software, Microsoft, VMware, or other vendors, you can extend the existing systems management framework and the skills of the IT staff to efficiently manage Dell servers, storage, business-client PCs, and networking equipments using Dell's Systems Management tools, utilities, and consoles.

Dell's systems management solution consists of a set of software products that help you to discover, monitor, manage, update, and deploy software or firmware on Dell servers. The products focus on:

  • Reducing complexity and saving time
    • Eliminating need for additional utilities
    • Eliminating tasks that increase time
  • Achieving efficiency and controlling costs
    • Improving asset management
    • Optimizing resource utilization
  • Empowering productivity by connecting to major systems management consoles and protecting investments
    • Providing features in tools that customers choose, thus adapting to customers' mode of operation
    • Automating to reduce downtime and human error.

Dell Out-of-Band controllers

Dell Integrated Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)

iDRACThe integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller is embedded within every Dell PowerEdge server and provides functionality that helps IT administrators deploy, update, monitor, and maintain Dell servers with no need for any additional software to be installed. The Dell iDRAC works regardless of operating system or hypervisor presence because from a pre-OS or bare-metal state, iDRAC is ready to work because it is embedded within each server from the factory.

The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) is designed to make server administrators more productive and improve the overall availability of Dell servers. IDRAC alerts administrators to server issues, helps them perform remote server management, and reduces the need for physical access to the server.

More info at: Dell Integrated Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)
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Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC)

CMCThe Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC) is an embedded system management hardware and software solution to manage:

  • Multiple servers
  • Networking
  • Storage

It provides a secure browser-based interface that enables an IT administrator to take inventory, perform configuration and monitoring tasks, remotely power on/off blade servers and enable alerts for events on servers and components in the blade chassis. It has its own microprocessor and memory and powered by the modular chassis it is plugged into. The discovery is built-in and CMC has a dedicated internal network. The blade enclosure, which can hold multiple blade servers, provides power, cooling, various interconnects and additional systems management capabilities. Unlike a tower or rack server, a blade server cannot run by itself; it requires a compatible blade enclosure.

More info at: Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC)
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Dell Lifecycle Controller

Lifecycle Controller

PowerEdge servers use an embedded iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller provides advanced embedded systems management, enabling key server management tasks including deploy, configure, update, maintain, diagnose, repurpose and retire. Lifecycle Controller supports these functions in the customer’s preferred mode – at the server, pre-boot with an UEFI graphical interface, at remote consoles using standards-based APIs and via scripting.

Prior to the development of Lifecycle Controller, an administrator used tools such as Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA), Dell Systems Build Update Utility (SBUU), and Dell Deployment Toolkit (DTK) shipped on multiple CDs or DVD in order to perform Dell EMC PowerEdge server provisioning and update. Maintaining and using multiple DVDs/images for these operations was a time-consuming and error-prone effort.

To simplify these operations, Lifecycle Controller allows IT administrators to do away with media altogether, enabling operating system deployment with locally embedded driver repositories, firmware updates from local and network sources, hardware configuration, and platform-specific diagnostic routines. Because Lifecycle Controller is available even when the operating system is not functional or not installed, it provides added flexibility in provisioning and customizing the server to suit changing requirements.

More info at: Dell Lifecycle Controller
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Dell Management Consoles

Dell OpenManage Enterprise

OMEOpenManage Enterprise Tech Release is a new hardware management and monitoring console that provides a comprehensive view of the Dell EMC servers, chassis, network switches, and other third-party devices on the enterprise network. It is designed for the next generation of IT Professionals with a focus on simplicity, automation, and unification of data center management.

What is new in this release

  • New architecture that is delivered as a virtual appliance (ESXi, HyperV, KVM)
  • Completely redesigned architecture and engineered on CentOS with PostgreSQL database.  No more OS and DB license required.
  • End-to-end server lifecycle management covering inventory, monitoring, reporting, configuration and deployment
  • Northbound API to enable customer automation and solution integration
  • Simplified discovery processes that enable devices to automatically register themselves with the console
  • Intuitively designed interface that minimizes management steps
  • Modernized dashboard providing a clear view of alerts and remediation options
  • Access to warranty status
  • Customized reporting capabilities

More info at: Dell OpenManage Enterprise
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Dell OpenManage Essentials (OME)

OMEOpenManage Essentials is a systems management console that provides simple, basic Dell hardware management and is available as a free download.

Dell OpenManage Essentials is our easy to install, intuitively simple to use, and customer-acclaimed, One-to-Many systems management console that is optimised to provide comprehensive lifecycle management of Dell PowerEdge converged, rack and tower servers. OpenManage Essentials also delivers extensive infrastructure health monitoring, control, and support for Dell servers, storage, networking, business clients, firewall appliances, and 3rd party hardware.

More info at: Dell OpenManage Essentials (OME)
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Dell SupportAssist

SupportAssist includes remote monitoring, automated system state information collection, automatic case creation and proactive contact from Dell technical support on select Dell server, storage, and networking devices.

Available features vary depending on the Dell service level purchased for your system. Customers with ProSupport Plus take advantage of the full set of SupportAssist features, including predictive issue detection and monthly optimization reporting. A recent study found that ProSupport Plus with SupportAssist proactive monitoring and automated case creation resolves issues up to 90% faster than with basic warranty alone.

To further streamline support, TechDirect enables you to manage routine issues and parts dispatching through a self-service online portal, mobile app and APIs. Gain real-time access to all your Dell support cases anytime, anywhere and at no additional charge. TechDirect users around the globe experience up to a 90% boost in productivity after implementing this tool.

More info at: Dell SupportAssist
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Dell OpenManage License Manager (DLM)

License ManagerDell License Manager is a one-to-many license deployment and reporting tool for Dell iDRAC and CMC licenses.

Dell License Manager can deploy and backup:

  • iDRAC licenses on all Dell 12th & 13th-Generation PowerEdge servers that are equipped with an iDRAC7 or greater Dell Remote Access controller.
  • CMC licenses on Dell PowerEdge VRTX and PowerEdge FX or FX2s chassis.
  • OpenManage Essentials perpetual licenses.
  • PowerEdge FD332 storage sled licenses.

Dell License Manager can also inventory licensable systems to report on the licensing status and currently enabled iDRAC feature level.

Use Dell iDRAC licenses to enable server management capabilities such as the virtual media and remote console support currently available in the Enterprise iDRAC feature set.

You can download licenses from the Dell Online Licensing Portal. You can purchase licenses when you purchase a server.

More info at: Dell OpenManage License Manager (DLM)
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Dell OpenManage Mobile (OMM)

OMMDell OpenManage Mobile is a software application that enables one to securely perform a subset of datacenter monitoring and server remediation tasks from a mobile device. OMM is supported for Android and iOS mobile devices.

OpenManage Mobile can connect to your datacenter through the Dell OpenManage Essentials management console. This allows a user to monitor all systems managed by OpenManage Essentials such as Dell Servers, Storage, Networking, and Firewall appliances and any other supported third party appliance from your android mobile device.

OpenManage Mobile can also connect to a Dell PowerEdge server directly through the iDRAC interface using WiFi or with the NFC on the iDRAC Quick Sync Bezel. Once connected, a user can perform several basic management functions on the server.

More info at: Dell OpenManage Mobile (OMM)
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Dell OpenManage Power Center (OMPC)

OMPCDell OpenManage Power Center (OMPC) management console provides increased visibility over power consumption, anomalies, and utilization through fine-grained instrumentation. This enables increased control, improved rack density, faster response times, greater accuracy, and broader decision-making intelligence than would otherwise be possible.

When used with a 12th and 13th generation PowerEdge server with an iDRAC Enterprise license on a system with an Intel chipset, OMPC leverages Intel Node Manager technology for platform-level power reporting and capping of Intel chipsets. Power Center then communicates with the Dell iDRAC on each managed server to provide node, rack, row or data-center level aggregation of power-management data, as well as execution of control policy - making it easy for IT professionals to identify areas to gain efficiencies and cut wasteful costs.

More info at: Dell OpenManage Power Center (OMPC)
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Dell OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM)

OMNMKeeping track of the devices in your network and understanding how they relate to each other and to other parts of your infrastructure can be difficult and time-consuming. OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM) is designed to make it easier to plan and manage your Dell, Cisco, HP, Juniper, Brocade, Arista and Extreme network devices.

Unify your network element management and simplify deployment of Dell and third-party networking environments with a rich suite of tools available in OMNM, an integrated management console for all your important network management functions.

OMNM’s centralized management solution for Dell networking environments provides discovery, configuration management, monitoring and reporting for the entire Dell Networking family of products and select third-party products - right out of the box.

More info at: Dell OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM)
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Dell Active Fabric Manager (AFM)

AFMDell’s Active Fabric Manager is a key software application to automate tasks associated with designing, building and monitoring data center fabrics, reducing fabric deployment time by up to 86% compared to manual configurations. Users can now design and deploy Layer 2 & Layer 3 fabrics within a matter of minutes. Unlike traditional Network Management tools that primarily focus on performance monitoring of various network elements, AFM has been built ground-up as an automation and orchestration tool for the entire fabric.

AFM includes many innovations that can save time and eliminate manual tasks associated with fabric design and deployment. For example, AFM includes a design wizard which simplifies the entire process of designing a network fabric, end-to-end. The wizard prompts the user to provide inputs required for the fabric design in an intuitive fashion. In the background, AFM carries out all necessary calculations to present the most appropriate fabric topology, eliminating guesswork and errors that are common in network design and implementation. The designs are derived from a set of predefined templates that have been validated for deployment as Layer 2 or Layer 3 fabrics, including spine-leaf Active Fabric topologies and underlying technologies such as Dell Virtual Link Trunking (VLT) and stacking.

More info at: Dell Active Fabric Manager (AFM)
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Dell Plugins for 3th party consoles

VMware vCenter

VMware vCenter Server provides a centralized platform for managing your VMware vSphere environments, so you can automate and deliver a virtual infrastructure with confidence.

Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV)

OMIVVOpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter enables you to manage the Dell hosts better from the VMware web client by providing enhanced capabilities for deployment, manage, monitor and upgrade.

Inventory

  • Dell PowerEdge server details at server, cluster, and data center level view.
  • Chassis details.

Monitor and send alerts

  • Detect key hardware faults, and perform virtualization-aware actions.
  • Provide intelligence such as, inventory, events, alarms to diagnose server problems.

Firmware updates

  • Update Dell hardware to the most recent version of BIOS and firmware.

Deployment and provisioning

  • Create hardware profiles, hypervisor profiles, and remotely deploy OS on the bare-metal Dell PowerEdge servers by using VMware vCenter without using PXE.

Service Information

  • Retrieve warranty information for the Dell servers and its associated chassis from Dell’s warranty database.

Security role and permissions

  • Integrate with standard vCenter authentication, rules, and permissions.

More info at: Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV)
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Dell OpenManage Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager

OpenManage Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager enables monitoring of different metrics and hardware resources in the Dell server (12th generation servers and later) and chassis by using vRealize Operations Manager. OpenManage Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager requires VMware vRealize Operations Manager version 6.3 or later.

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV) is a product that manages the ESXi servers within the VMware vCenter. OpenManage Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager supports OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter 4.0 or later.

OpenManage Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager enables you to monitor and analyze the health, inventory, and status of the Dell PowerEdge servers and chassis that are managed by the OMIVV

The OpenManage adapter retrieves the data of the managed Dell servers and its associated Dell chassis from the configured OMIVV. The retrieved details are used to discover and monitor the Dell PowerEdge servers and chassis.

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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

Operations Manager provides infrastructure monitoring that is flexible and cost-effective, helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, and offers comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public.

Dell Server Management Pack Suite for System Center Operations Manager

Dell Server Management Pack Suite for System Center Operations ManagerDell Server Management Pack Suite offers monitoring of Dell server hardware - Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell PowerVault NAS, Dell Remote Access Controllers (iDRAC), Chassis Management Controllers (CMC) through System Center Operations Manager and integration with various Dell tools. The management pack suite provides Dell-specific views that you can use to observe and drill down the system inventory, status and performance in a network.

The management pack suite also offers key correlation capabilities that enable users to view the complex interconnections and status rollups that are enabled from Dell hardware (e.g., monitoring of VRTX Chassis Storage from Server Node context.)

The suite includes agent-free out-of-band monitoring that leverages the embedded server management features using iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller to enable monitoring of a server without the need for an OS agent.

More info at: Dell Server Management Pack Suite for System Center Operations Manager
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Dell EqualLogic Storage Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager

The Dell EqualLogic Storage Management Pack Suite for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager enables monitoring of Dell EqualLogic PS Arrays on System Center Operations Manager. The Management Packs provide a list of Dell-specific views that you can use to observe and drill down the system status in a network.

More info at: hDell EqualLogic Storage Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager
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Dell MD Storage Arrays Management Pack Suite for System Center Operations Manager

The Dell MD Storage Array Management Pack Suite enables Operations Manager to discover and monitor the status of Dell PowerVault MD Storage Arrays, on a defined network segment. This representation includes the receipt of alerts and pre-failure alerts with the ability to drill down to each hardware component from the overall Dell hardware health, and allows Dell customers to assess, respond to, and ensure availability of Dell Storage systems monitored in the Operations Manager environment.

In addition to improved availability, the Management Pack enhances the ability to monitor and manage the hardware in a single management solution.

More info at: Dell MD Storage Arrays Management Pack Suite for System Center Operations Manager
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Dell Printer Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager

The Dell Printer Management Pack enables Operations Manager to discover and monitor the status of Dell Printers, on a defined network segment. This representation, which includes the receipt of failure and pre-failure alerts, allows you to assess, respond to, and ensure the availability of Dell Printers monitored in the Operations Manager environment.

More info at: Dell Printer Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager
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Dell Client Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager

The Dell Client Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager provides monitoring in Operations Manager for Dell Business Client Computers (Latitude, Precision and OptiPlex) running Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation (OMCI).

More info at: Dell Client Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager
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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

Use System Center Configuration Manager to provide more effective IT services by enabling secure and scalable software deployment, compliance settings management, and comprehensive asset management of servers, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices.

Dell Server Deployment Pack for System Center Configuration Manager

Dell Server Deployment Pack (DSDP) automates bare-metal configuration and deployment of a variety of Microsoft Windows operating system versions (leveraging PXE-based OS deployment) and applications from a central location to PowerEdge servers across enterprise networks.

More info at: Dell Server Deployment Pack for System Center Configuration Manager
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Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for System Center Configuration Manager

Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for SCCMDell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Configuration Manager (DLCI) provides agent-free, OS and hypervisor agnostic configuration and update of Dell PowerEdge servers. Through automated processes, IT Administrators can reduce steps, time, and cost in configuring servers from a bare-metal state and preparing remote 1-to-Many operating system (OS) deployment.

More info at: Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for System Center Configuration Manager
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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) is a management solution for the virtualized datacenter, enabling you to configure and manage your virtualization host, networking, and storage resources in order to create and deploy virtual machines and services to private clouds that you have created.

Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for SCVMMDell Lifecycle Controller Integration (DLCI) for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager helps automate and simplify hardware configuration as well as deployment of operating systems (OS) running on Dell PowerEdge servers.

DLCI for SCVMM helps reduce the number of operational procedures and time required in preparing for one-to-many OS deployments. DLCI for SCVMM offers agent-free, out-of-band hardware configuration, patching, deployment and reapply the previous stored system settings through the System Center Virtual Machine Manager console leveraging Dell’s embedded server management technology, iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller.

More info at: Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for System Center Virtual Machine Manager
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Dell Server PRO Management Pack with PRO-Tips

The Dell Server Performance and Resource Optimization Management Pack (PRO Pack) enables System Center Operations Manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager to monitor Dell systems, and take remedial action when an inefficient system is identified. This enables to proactively manage virtual environments and ensure high availability of your Dell Servers.

More info at: Dell Server PRO Management Pack with PRO-Tips
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Nagios

Nagios Core serves as the basic event scheduler, event processor, and alert manager for elements that are monitored. It features several APIs that are used to extend its capabilities to perform additional tasks, is implemented as a daemon written in C for performance reasons, & is designed to run natively on Linux/*nix systems.

Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios Core

NagiosDell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios Core provides a proactive approach to data center management that delivers features for monitoring 12th and later generations of Dell PowerEdge servers through an agent-free method using integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller technology, Dell chassis and Dell storage devices in the Nagios Core console.

With this plug-in, customers have comprehensive hardware-level visibility of Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell chassis, and Dell storage including overall and component-level health monitoring for quicker fault detection and resolution.

More info at: Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios Core
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Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios XI

Nagios XIDell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios XI provides a proactive approach to data center management that delivers features for monitoring 12th and later generations of Dell PowerEdge servers through an agent-free method using integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller technology, Dell chassis and Dell storage devices in the Nagios XI console. With this plug-in, customers have comprehensive hardware-level visibility of Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell chassis, and Dell storage including overall and component-level health monitoring for quicker fault detection and resolution.

More info at: Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios XI
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IBM Tivoli

Tivoli Systems is an IBM-owned company that develops software that allows a business to manage its computing environment.

Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console

The Connection is a systems management plug-in that extends the management of Dell PowerEdge systems and Dell PowerVault storage systems to users of the Tivoli Enterprise Console management product. It allows users to integrate the management of Dell systems to make them easier to manage.

The Connection also allows systems management professionals to take corrective action on Dell systems when a Dell-specific alert is received at the enterprise. These alerts include, but are not limited to, temperature, fan speed, and chassis intrusion.

More info at: Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console
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Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus

Netcool-OMNIbusDell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus allows Dell devices to send and receive alerts to and from the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus server. It also supports one-to-one element management console launch following Dell device alerts and Dell Tools launch from the OMNIbus console in order to perform troubleshooting, configuration and management activities.

More info at: Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus
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Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition

Tivoli NetworkDell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Network Manager (ITNM) IP Edition provides end-to-end monitoring capability for Dell Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) Servers, Dell Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS), Dell PowerEdge servers, chassis, workstations, storage arrays and network switches.

You can monitor the Dell infrastructure from the ITNM IP Edition console, which is a single point of management for the complete hardware environment in your data center. It also supports console launch of Dell devices and other Dell tools to perform troubleshooting, configuration, and management activities.

More info at: Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition
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HP Operations Manager

HP Operations Manager is a System monitoring package manufactured by Hewlett-Packard (HP). It operates in 'agent-push' mode, which means that a software agent component installed on the monitored hosts sends selected alerts to a centralized Management Server.

Dell OpenManage Connection for HP Operations Manager

HP Operation ManagerDell Smart Plug-in for HP Operations Manager enables the datacenter customers to monitor Dell devices in environments managed by HP Operations Manager console. Dell Smart Plug-in protects an IT organization’s existing investment in HP Operations Manager console and helps ease the integration and management of Dell devices.

More info at: Dell OpenManage Connection for HP Operations Manager
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Standalone tools and utilities

Dell Repository Manager (DRM)

DRMDell Repository Manager (DRM) is an application that allows IT Administrators to easily manage system updates. Dell Repository Manager provides a searchable interface used to create custom software collections known as bundles and repositories of Dell Update Packages (DUPs). DRM integrates with Dell EMC consoles such as OpenManage Essentials, SCVMM, OMIVV, CMC as well as iDRAC to automate the creation of custom repositories with just the relevant updates. DRM also allows for the manual creation of repositories.

These bundles and repositories allow for the deployment of multiple firmware updates at once. DRM can build deployment packages that can be used by Dell EMC consoles, as well as tools such as Scripted Deployment Packs, Bootable ISO and Custom Server Update Utility.

A Dell Update Package (DUP) is a self-contained executable in a standard package format that updates a software element on a Dell server such as the BIOS, a device driver, firmware, and other similar software updates.

Additionally, Dell Repository Manager makes it easier to locate specific updates for a particular platform, which saves time. DRM also can schedule a search for new updates and notify the customer when a newer update is available and refresh the Repository with the new update (this is configurable). No longer do our customers need to either search support.dell.com or run a comparison to find learn when new updates are available.

More info at: Dell Repository Manager (DRM)
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Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA)

OMSADell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) is a software agent that provides a comprehensive, one-to-one systems management solution in two ways: from an integrated, Web browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) and from a command line interface (CLI) through the operating system.

OMSA is designed so that system administrators can manage server systems both locally and remotely on a network. It also interfaces with OpenManage Essentials (OME) console, which allows for monitoring of the systems in your data center from a single interface.

Currently the OMSA agent can be installed on 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Server, Red Hat Linux as well as Novell SUSE Linux and ESXi.

More info at: Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA)
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Dell iDRAC Service Module (iSM)

The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) Service Module is a lightweight optional software application that can be installed on Dell’s 12th generation of PowerEdge servers or later. The iDRAC Service Module complements iDRAC interfaces – Graphical User Interface (GUI), RACADM CLI and Web Service Management (WSMAN) with additional monitoring data. You can configure the features on the supported operating system depending on the features to be installed and the unique integration needs in your environment.

The iDRAC Service Module architecture uses IP socket communication and provides additional Systems Management data (OS/device driver) to iDRAC and presents one-to-many consoles with access to Systems Management data through OS standard interfaces.

More info at: Dell iDRAC Service Module (iSM)
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Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK)

The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) includes a set of utilities, sample scripts, and sample configuration files that you can use to deploy and configure the Dell systems. You can use DTK to build script-based and RPM-based installation for deploying large number of systems on a pre-operating system environment in a reliable way, without changing their current deployment processes. Using DTK you can install operating systems on Dell systems in BIOS or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) mode.

In addition to the command line utilities used to configure various system features, DTK also provides sample scripts and configuration files to perform common deployment tasks and documentation. These files and scripts describe the use of the DTK in Microsoft Windows Pre-installation Environment (Windows PE) and Linux environments.

More info at: Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK)
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Dell RACADM (CLI)

The Dell RACADM (Remote Access Controller Admin) utility is a command line tool that allows for remote or local management of Dell Servers via the iDRAC. RACADM provides similar functionality to the iDRAC Graphical User Interface (GUI). The Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC) can also be managed remotely with RACADM.

More info at: Dell RACADM (CLI)
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Dell System Update (DSU)

Dell System Update is an application designed to facilitate the application of updates on Dell EMC PowerEdge systems. DSU is a lightweight utility that provides an enhanced scripted update process for Dell EMC’s Linux customers. DSU includes an Inventory Collector that will inventory the target system, compare the results against a Repository or Catalog and only deploy the updates that are required. DSU also provides advanced scripting capabilities to customize the updates that are deployed. DSU can be pointed at the Dell Linux Repository for gathering the updates to deploy or at a custom catalog built with Dell Repository Manager for those customers that want to have a tightly controlled baseline of Firmware levels for their systems.

DSU introduced the ability to build a Bootable DSU that provides the advantages of the advanced scripting capability along with an innovative approach to gathering the updates for deployment. Bootable DSU can be built as a self-contained Bootable ISO that includes a Linux Kernel, DSU, Inventory Collector and the physical update files. But an innovative approach is also available that allows the creation of a Bootable DSU that points to a remote location for the update files. The advantage of this unique approach is that the Bootable DSU portion only needs to be built once, and when you want to change the updates to apply you just change the contents of the remote location.

The following are key advantages for Dell System Update

  • Provide the ability to deploy/apply updates
  • Provide Consistent interface across operating systems, repositories and systems
  • Provide the ability to detect the applicable updates and ability to choose the updates for deployment

More info at: Dell System Update (DSU)
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Dell Remote Access Configuration Tool (DRACT)

DRACTDell Remote Access Configuration Tool (DRACT) discovers and configures Remote Access Controllers (RACs) for systems on your network from a single console. You can use this tool to perform the following:

  • Discover or import RAC IP addresses on the network.
  • Update firmware for selected RAC IP addresses.
  • Configure standard or extended schema-based Active Directory (AD) settings for selected RAC IP addresses.
  • Create RAC objects on the AD server for extended schema-based AD.

More info at: Dell Remote Access Configuration Tool (DRACT)
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Tags: SCOM, OME, asm, drm, omnm, OMSA, AFM, CMC, nagios, DSU, DTK, SCVMM, DLM, OMPC, OMIVV, SupportAssist, cli, iSM, iDRAC, sccm, tivoli, ONM, LIfecycle Controler

iDRAC7 & 8 White Paper Home

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 White Papers

Product Pages

General Overview

OS Deployment

Active Directory Integration & Certificates

iDRAC8 (13G) Home


iDRAC9 (14G) Home


iDRAC9 White Papers

Networking and I/O configuration

Updates

Monitoring and Alerting

Scripting and Server Configuration Profiles

Storage & PERC

SupportAssist & Part Replacement

Lifecycle Controller Home

BIOS and UEFI

Security

 

 

General Overview

iDRAC 7 & 8 Feature and Licensing Information Sheet (New for 13G)

Introducing iDRAC8 with Lifecycle Controller for Dell 13th Generation PowerEdge Servers (new for 13G)

OpenManage Systems Management with iDRAC, iSM, & OMSA: selecting the right components for specific server management requirements(NEW - Jan 2016)

Overview of Dell Systems Management using IPMI (updated for 13G)
PowerEdge Software Licensing (new for 13G)

Principled Technologies' Review of 13G PowerEdge OpenManage(New for 13G)

Understanding Physical Computer System View Profile Implementation (New for 13G)

Configuring Low-Latency Environments in PowerEdge Servers

Dell iDRAC7 Licensing Whitepaper - Differences between iDRAC6 and iDRAC7

iDRAC7 with Lifecycle Controller - Feature Guide

Lifecycle Controller Workflow Optimization

New Feature Overview: December 2013 Releases of iDRAC7 and Lifecycle Controller 2

New Features and Usability Enhancements to RACADM Commands in iDRAC7

PowerEdge C6320 Power Capping (New for 13G)

 

Networking and I/O configuration

Disabling a Third-Party PCIe Card Cooling Response with Dell PowerEdge Servers (new for 13G)

Dell Network Adapters with iDRAC (Updated April 2016)

IPv6 Best Practices using iDRAC (new for 13G)

Managing IO Identity and Server State Information (New for 13G)

Optimizing I/O Identity and Applying Persistence Policy on Network and Fibre Channel Adapters (new for 13G)

Retrieving Server OS Networking Information through iDRAC (New for 13G)

Understanding PreBoot Networking on Dell PowerEdge Servers (new for 13G)

Auto Dedicated NIC Feature in iDRAC7

Auto-Discovery Network Setup Specification

Configuring BIOS and NIC Using RACADM through Dell iDRAC

Converged Network Adapters with NIC, iSCSI, and FCoE Support

OS to BMC Pass-through operation

FCoE Boot Configuration Setup on Intel Card

FCoE boot using Broadcom card

iDRAC7 Network and Virtual Media Performance

iDRAC7 Networking and Improved Remote Access Performance

Network IO Identity

Reinitiate Auto-Discovery

Remote NIC Configuration Management  

 

Scripting and Server Configuration Profiles

Lifecycle Controller (with WS-Man) Best Practices Specification (Jan 2017)

Lifecycle Controller 2 Web Services Interface Guide (WS-Man Scripting Guide) for Windows  (Jan 2017)

Lifecycle Controller 2 Web Services Interface Guide (WS-Man Scripting Guide) for Linux (Jan 2017)

RESTful Server Configuration with iDRAC REST API(NOV 2016) 

Dell PowerEdge Redfish API Overview

AutoConfig - Enabling rapid configuration of Dell servers using DHCP (12G and 13G)

Creating Applications using the WSMAN API (New for 13G)

Methods to Save and Restore PowerEdge Server Configuration Settings and Firmware Images (New for 13G)

Using Filter Dialects with the WSMAN API (New for 13G)

Automatic Backup Server Profile

Creating and Managing Server Configuration Profiles

Hardware Inventory Viewing Script

How to Build Inventory Reports 

iDRAC Cloning

Import and Export Server Profiles

Lifecycle Controller Backup and Restore in Dell PowerEdge 12th Generation Servers

Programmatic Scripting with WSMAN

Scripting WSMAN to Deploy OS Drivers

Scripting WSMAN to Deploy OS using Remote ISO Image to Stage and Boot

Scripting WSMAN to Deploy OS using vFlash to Stage and Boot to ISO

Server Cloning with Server Configuration Profiles

Server Configuration Profile - XML File Structure (files )

Understanding the iDRAC Power State Management in Base Server Profile

Understanding the iDRAC Power State Management Profile

Using Microsoft Windows PowerShell CIM Cmdlets with Dell iDRAC

 

BIOS and UEFI

Enabling iSCSI Boot Under UEFI Boot Mode on 13th Generation PowerEdge Servers

BIOS POST Troubleshooting Guide for 13th Generation PowerEdge Servers(new for 13G)

BIOS Setup User Guide for 13th Generation PowerEdge Servers(new for 13G)

Defining a Secure Boot Policy (new for 13G)

Updating BIOS on Dell 12G PowerEdge Servers (iDRAC7 - 12G only) 

Updating BIOS on Dell 13G PowerEdge Servers (iDRAC8 - 13G only) (New for 13G)

Using Lifecycle Controller to Configure UEFI Secure Boot and OS Deployment(new for 13G)

Configuring BIOS and NIC Using RACADM through Dell iDRAC

 

OS deployment

Unattended Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Operating System on Dell PowerEdge Servers Using iDRAC With Lifecycle Controller(new for 13G)
Unattended Installation of Windows 2012 (12G and 13G)

Operating System Deployment in PowerEdge Servers

Operating Systems Deployment using iSCSI or FCOE LUN

 

Updates

Automatic Updates in Dell PowerEdge 12G servers  

Creating and updating iDRAC repository with Repository Manager

Lifecycle Controller Platform Update in Dell PowerEdge 12th Generation Servers

Lifecycle Controller with Dell Repository Manager

PowerEdge Updates with Repository Manager Best Practices Guide

Recommended methods of Updating Firmware on Dell Servers

Recommended Workflow for Performing Firmware Updates on PowerEdge Servers

Remote Firmware Update

Updating Firmware on PowerEdge Servers Using the iDRAC7 Web Interface

Using Dell Repository Manager to create a Bootable ISO and perform updates

 

Storage & PERC

Dell’s vFlash SD Flash Media Card – Better Endurance and Performance via Over-Provisioning

Understanding Real Time Storage Configuration for PERC9(new for 13G)
Managing Web Server Certificates on iDRAC (New for 13G)
Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD Devie Monitoring, Inventory, and Configuration (New for 13G)
vFlash Overview

vFlash Partition Management 

vFlash using the Lifecycle Controller GUI

 

Security

Dell EMC Response to CVEs 2018-1207, 2018-1211, and 1000116 [30 March 2018](March 2018)

Dell update regarding CVE-2016-2183 - Birthday attacks on 64-bit block ciphers (aka Sweet32 attack)(May 2016)

Dell iDRAC Best Practices regarding Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocols (September 2016)

Dell response to 2016 Leap Second Issue (November 2016)

Dell PowerEdge 13G server security white paper (Nov. 2016) 

Dell's response to CVE-2016-5685(November 2016) 

Dell Response to CVE-2016-2108 (OpenSSL) (18 May 2016)

Dell OpenManage Response to CVE-2015-7547, glibc overflow(March 2016)

Dell OpenManage Response to CVE-2016-0800, CVE-2016-0703 and CVE-2016-0704(March 2016)

Dell iDRAC Response to recent CVE notices(Dec 2015)

Security with iDRAC8 (and 7)(updated April 2016)

Managing Web Server Certificates on iDRAC (New for 13G)

System Erase in Dell 13th Generation PowerEdge Servers (New for 13G)
New Security Features in Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7

 

Active Directory Integration & Certificates

 

Active Directory using Lifecycle Controller 

Integrate iDRAC8 with Active Directory (New for 13G)
Integrating iDRAC7 with Microsoft Active Directory

iDRAC Web Server Certificate Management

 

Monitoring and Alerting

13G iDRAC8 Dell Test Event Notification Message Reference

Dell PowerEdge C6320 platform options and systems management (Oct 2015)

iDRAC QuickSync Technical Guide (Nov 2014)

Managing Backplane Split Mode (new for 13G)

Web Services Eventing Support for Hardware Inventory and Monitoring (new for 13G)

Pre-failure alerts provided by Dell server systems management (UPDATED!)

PSU Mismatch System Behavior for Dell PowerEdge Servers (For 12G & 13G)

Using VNC with iDRAC (New for 13G)

Enhanced Out of Band Performance Monitoring (New for 13G)

FAQ: iDRAC Quick Sync & OpenManage Mobile - October 2014 (New for 13G)

Agent-free Inventory and Monitoring for Storage and Network Devices

Discovering Features in the iDRAC Remote Services API

Gathering information from iDRAC7 using SNMPv3

OMSA / OMSS to iDRAC SNMP-Gets Migration Guide (updated Aug '16)

Using OpenManage Essentials to configure iDRAC7 Action Alerts

Using the iDRAC7 Video Capture Feature

Web Service Eventing for iDRAC7 1.30.30 or later versions

 

Support Assist & Part Replacement

Generating Tech Support Report on 13th Generation Dell PowerEdge Servers (New for 13G)
Motherboard Replacement

Lifecycle Controller Part Replacement

Part Replacement

Restoring iDRAC7 License after System Board Replacement

Tags: IDRAC CVE OpenManage

iDRAC6 Home

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The Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6, the i stands for integrated) is Dell designed hardware that provides advanced agentless systems management functionality.

The iDRAC6 operates independently from the server’s CPU and operating system. The iDRAC6 functions even if the server is powered off, no operating system is installed, or the operating system is inoperable. This capability makes iDRAC6 a mainstay in remotely managed data centers and distant offices where remote desktop applications (such as RDP) are not sufficient due to their dependency on a running operating system.

The iDRAC6 alerts administrators to server warnings and failures, enables remote server management and allows for remote power on / off and provides server power monitoring and budgeting features. iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller technology, enables administrators to also manage the iDRAC via command line and perform system firmware backups to embedded storage on the iDRAC.

 Quick References
iDRAC6 User Guides and Manuals

RACADM CLI reference for iDRAC6  <ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell>- html version (PDF

RACADM wiki

iDRAC6 Licensing Information <ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell>

iDRAC7 Home

DRAC5 Home

Dell Remote Access Controller Downloads

 

LC1 - iDRAC6 FW Matrix
LC 1 VersioniDRAC6 Monolithic FW VersioniDRAC6 Blade FW Version
1.6.5 (Download)1.98 (Download)3.65 (Download)
1.6.51.97 (Download)3.60 (Download)
1.6.01.95 (Download)3.50 (Download)
1.6.01.95 (Download)3.45 (Download)
1.5.51.9 (Download)3.4 (Download)
1.5.21.8 (Download)3.35 (Download)
1.5.01.6 (Download)3.2 (Download)
1.4.01.5 (Download)3.0 (Download)
1.3.01.3 (Download)2.2 (Download)
1.2.01.2 (Download)2.1 (Download)
1.0.01.0 (Download)2.0 (Download)

The current versions of the Dell Remote Access Controller are listed above:
For instructions on how to upgrade Dell iDRAC firmware visit:
http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/Updating+DRAC+Firmware
Newest Features for v1.8 (full readme.txt)
  • Enabled iDRAC support for new CPUs and memory DIMMs
  • Added RACADM "getLED" command support
Newest Features for v1.7
    • Firefox 3.6 support
    • Hardware and firmware inventory
    • Faster Web GUI performance
    • Option to add User Work Notes in logs
    • Virtual Console can now be launched without Active Directory or Single Sign-On (from https://mydrac/console )

 iDRAC6 White Papers
Dell EMC iDRAC Response to Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2018-1212 (March 2018)
Configuring iDRAC6 for Directory Services

Public Key Infrastructure in iDRAC6

iDRAC6 Security

Using vFlash

Lifecycle Controller 1.x white papers

 iDRAC6 Video Demos
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DELL EMC Update Package (DUP)

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DocumentationA Dell Update Package (DUP) is a self-contained executable in a standard package format that updates a single software element on the system. Using DUPs, you can update a wide range of system components simultaneously and apply scripts to similar sets of Dell systems to *** levels.

You can use DUPs to:

  • Apply an individual update to a system ***>
  • Install device drivers in interactive and non-interactive modes.
  • Execute multiple updates on the system ***-interactive commands that you write using the CLI feature.
  • Leverage the scheduling of your operating system and software distribution utilities to apply updates remotely to any number of systems.

DUPs are available for the following software components:<***>

  • System firmware, also known as the Embedded Systems Management (ESM) firmware
  • Network firmware and drivers
  • Remote Access Controller (RAC) firmware
  • RAID controller firmware and device drivers
  • Software RAID 3.0 (S130) driver
  • Hard-disk drives (HDDs), Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), and solid-state drives (SSDs)
  • Lifecycle Controller
  • Dell Diagnostics and Driver Pack
  • ***>
  • Enclosures (MD12xx, MD14xx)
  • OS Collector
  • Chipset Drivers
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     What's New + Downloads

    DUP supports the Dell PowerEdge FD332 servers.

    Documentation

    Dell Update Packages Version 17.10.00 User's Guide<***/en/indhs1/Products/software/ent_sys_mgmt/ent_sys_mgmt_update_pckgs" target="http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/extras/m/white_papers/20438129.aspx">Older Versions
    Other Resources - OM Software Support Matrix, DTK, SUU, DRM 

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    OpenManage Essentials

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    OpenManage Enterprise Tech Release is now available

    OpenManage Enterprise is the next generation OpenManage Essentials.  It simplifies, centralizes and automates the full span of server lifecycle management activities – discovery, configuration, deployment, updates, and remediation – within a single console that unifies management of tower, rack and modular platforms.  OpenManage Enterprise assists in standardizing and supporting your IT management policies and practices.

    Please visit the OpenManage Enterprise page for more information.

     

    OpenManage Essentials information continues below

    Contents: Download - Documentation - Whitepapers - Videos - Forum - Blogs - FAQ 

    OpenManage Essentials (OME) is a systems management console that provides simple, basic Dell hardware management and is available as a free download.

    OpenManage Essentials 2.4 is now available (Jan 25th, 2018). It brings a lot of great new features and enhancements to the product.

    Dell OpenManage Essentials (OME) version 2.4 is the latest release of our easy to install, intuitively simple to use, and customer-acclaimed, One-to-Many systems management console that is optimized to provide comprehensive lifecycle management of Dell PowerEdge modular, rack and tower servers.  OpenManage Essentials also delivers extensive infrastructure health monitoring, control, and support for Dell servers, storage, networking, business clients, firewall appliances, and 3rd party hardware.   

    Key NEW features& Enhancements available with OpenManage Essentials v2.4:

    • Support of streaming functionality for the server configuration deployment and configuration compliance tasks.
    • Ability to create and manage multiple firmware baselines from repository manager files.
    • Support for associating custom device groups with a firmware baseline.
    • Support for generating firmware compliance report of custom device groups and updating non-compliant devices based on compliance report.
    • Support for the latest models of 14th generation PowerEdge servers and networking devices.
    • REST API enhancements:
      • To list and manage discovery ranges for the discovered devices.
      • To manage device groups, add and delete devices from the device groups.
      • To generate firmware compliance reports of device groups.
      • To generate configuration compliance reports of device groups.
      • To view additional inventory information such as controllers, physical disks, power supplies, switches, and virtual disks related information displayed in OpenManage Essentials GUI.

    Enhancements:

    • Ability to view configuration compliance reports of device groups.
    • Ability to view the number of tasks being executed.
    • Also refer the Release Notes to know the key fixes available in this release. 

    Key NEW features & Enhancements available with OpenManage Essentials v2.3 and onward:

    • Support for simplified device configuration deployment and configuration compliance features by separating deployment templates and configuration baseline.
    • Enhancement in the chassis configuration baseline and deployment template with additional configuration settings for compliance, deployment, and export features.
    • Remediate configuration drift against the server and chassis baselines.
    • Backup and restore server profiles for existing operation without redeploying the servers.
    • Support for SNMPv3-based discovery and events.
    • Simplified modular infrastructure configuration management by combining chassis and IOA configurations.
    • Simplify template editing for boot configurations, network interface settings, and IOA VLAN attributes.
    • Enabling OpenManage Essentials to be used in data centers where ICMP ping is blocked.
    • Enabling the device type-based discovery in the guided wizard.
    • Enabling rediscovery of server or chassis by configuring the static IPv4 address during the configuration deployment task.
    • Support for the following devices:
      • Additional models of networking, storage, and Disk Backup devices:
        • Storage: Compellent SC7020 
        • Networking: S6010 - ON, S6100 - ON, S4048T – ON
        • Disk Backup: DR4300, DR4300e, DR6300
      • VxRail and XC series hyper-converged infrastructure

    • Enhancements:
      • Increase in the time interval of the Alert Ignore Action to receive ignore duplicate alerts to a maximum of 24 hours.
      • Ability to save the purged alerts after the maximum size of alerts log is reached.
      • More information in both inventory and hard drive information report to identify if a hard drive is self-encryption capable or Self-Encrypting Drive (SED).
      • Enabling support of Programmable MUX (PMUX) mode for VLAN configuration and VLAN deployment features on IOAs.
      • Capability to export the discovery ranges.
      • Ability to view the virtual I/O pool size of the I/O identity types during the creation of a virtual I/O pool.
      • New capabilities and enhancements in the REST interface. 
      • 45% increase in control and scalability across managed devices -  from 5500 to 8000

    Existing OpenManage Essentials features also available now in OME v2.4:

    • Stateless computing with centralized management of server virtual I/O addresses within OME - Server Configuration Management
      • Simplify server provisioning through profile-based deployments
      • Enable elasticity of compute resources through definition of a stateless computing pool in a Boot-from-SAN environment
      • Enable simplified server migration for disaster recovery operations
    • Interconnects Management for PowerEdge Modular Infrastructure within OME – Server Configuration Management
      • Simplify M series blade I/O Aggregator and FN IO Module provisioning through template-based deployments
      • Simplified I/O connection and vLAN management for PowerEdge modular infrastructure through an easy tabular interface. It provides direct mapping between blade NIC ports and IOA/IOM server facing ports.  vLAN on the IOA/IOM server facing ports can be directly managed.
      • Automate vLAN provisioning as part of blade provisioning by extending server template to include definitions for vLANs on the corresponding IOA/IOM server facing ports.
    • Simplified discovery for Dell PowerEdge modular infrastructure (M1000e, FX2 and VRTX)
      • Elimination of multiple steps in establishing discovery ranges for various components (CMC, iDRACs, and IOAs)
      • Automated speedy discovery of Dell modular infrastructure through use of a single CMC credential 
    • Report enhancements include the availability of additional reports and categorizations
    • Alert enhancements provide root-cause sources and recommendations on how to resolve issues
    • Integration with Dell ProSupport SupportAssist for proactive remote support, automated support case creation and hardware failure notification sent securely to Dell technical support for intelligent issue analysis, diagnosis, and part-replacements upon customer request
    • Comprehensive, deep management visibility and control for Dell blades and Chassis Management Controller (CMC), Dell storage and networking devices, and Dell AppAssure through a context sensitive link and launch of the respective element management interface
    • Geographic View at-a-glance visibility of VRTX and FX2 systems’ physical locations geographically mapped
    • Agent-free OOB inventory and update of 11th, 12th ,13th and 14th generation PowerEdge servers
    • Agent-free monitoring of 12th ,13th and 14th generation PowerEdge servers
    • Traditional agent-based systems management functionality in all supported 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th generation PowerEdge servers
    • Monitoring of non-Dell HW devices through import of 3rd party HW SNMP MIBs
    • Reporting of Warranty expiration and comprehensive inventory reports
    • Hardware component-level monitoring and updates for PowerEdge servers, blade systems and internal storage arrays
    • Support and control of Dell hardware in Windows, Linux, VMware, Hyper-V and OpenSource  environments
    • Enhanced management functionality through integration with the following Dell solutions:
      • Dell KACE K1000 Appliance – comprehensive, economical and straightforward management of both clients and servers through a single interface
      • Dell Repository Manager – version control and scheduling of PowerEdge server updates 
      • Dell OpenManage Power Center – optimization of  PowerEdge power usage

     

    Dell OpenManage Essentials Core Features:

    Simple and effective

    • Modern UI and Faster responsiveness
    • Easy to install & low touch maintenance
    • Simple to use and learn

    Basic Hardware Element Management

    • Discover, Inventory & Monitoring Dell EMC Servers, storage and networking switches.
    • Update Dell EMC Servers and Chassis.
    • Configure Dell EMC Servers, Chassis and IOA/IOM
    • Asset reporting (ServiceTag, FRU and Warranty, etc)

    Agent-free Management

    • Discover and Correlate IDRAC / Server and Blades / Chassis
    • Agent Free Monitoring on 12th, and 13th generation PowerEdge servers.
    • Update 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th generation PowerEdge servers

    OpenManage Essentials is available as a free download from the Dell Support Site. The OME console's inventory function integrates with the Dell Repository Manager to automatically facilitate the creation of custom repositories of new updates for your systems.  

    If you are new to the product, Take the Quick Tour or watch the OME Overview Video below:

    Download  

    License Info:

    Licensing OpenManage Essentials “Server Configuration Management”:  OpenManage Essentials (OME) is available as a free software download.  The download of OpenManage Essentials software also includes the opportunity to download and activate Dell SupportAssist services. In addition, Dell offers fee-based “Server Configuration Management” licenses that enable template–based deployment and configuration of bare-metal PowerEdge servers, detection of server configuration drift, virtual IO management. and state-less computing, among several additional management capabilities.  “Server Configuration Management” licenses are available at both POS (Point-Of-Sale) with a server purchase and APOS (After-Point-Of-Sale) for 12th,  13th and 14th generation PowerEdge servers.  License SKUS for OpenManage Essentials “Server Configuration Management” are as follows:   

    • POS:      634-BBWU (12th and 13th generation PowerEdge servers)
    • APOS:    634-BBWT (12th and 13th generation PowerEdge servers)
    • POS:      528-BBWT (14th generation PowerEdge servers)
    • APOS:    528-BBSB (14th generation PowerEdge servers)

    For additional information, please contact a Dell Sales Representative. 

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    OME 2.4: Support of Multiple Catalog Baselines in OpenManage Essentials
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    OME 2.3: Installing OpenManage Essentials 2.3
     
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    OME 2.3: Upgrading to the latest OpenManage Essentials
     
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    OME 2.3: Discover Devices based on Device Type (Enhanced Guided Discovery Wizard)
     
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    OME 2.3: Discovering and Monitoring Devices By Using SNMPv3 Protocol
     
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    OME 2.3 Editing boot and network configuration settings

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    OME 2.3 Creating chassis infrastructure template

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    OME 2.3 Deploying chassis infrastructure template

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    OME 2.3 - Creating & Associating a Device Baseline

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    OME 2.3: Remediating Non-compliant Devices by using OpenManage Essentials

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    OME 2.3 - Replacing a Target Server by using Backup Profiles

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    OME 2.2 Creating an IOA configuration template

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    OME 2.2 Deploying an IOA configuration template

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    OME 2.2 Server deployment with VLAN configuration

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    OME 2.2 IOA VLAN configuration

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    OME 2.1 Simplified discovery for Dell PowerEdge modular infrastructure


     
    OME 2.1 Stateless Computing Tutorial Videos

     

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    Video 1: Creating a Template

      

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    Video 2: Creating a Virtual I/O Pool (OME 2.3)

      

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    Video 3: Creating a Compute Pool

      

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    Video 4: Deploying a Template (Stateless Deployment)

      

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    Video 5: Replacing a Server

     
    OME 2.0 Server Configuration Tutorial Videos
     
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    Video 1: Adding Devices to the Bare Metal and Re-purpose Device Group

      

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    Video 2: Configuring Credentials and Scheduling Inventory

     

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    Video 3: Configuring a Deployment Share

      

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    Video 4: Creating a Configuration Template

      

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    Video 5: Deploying a Bare Metal Device

      

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    Video 6: Detecting Configuration Drift

      

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    Video 7: Auto Deploying Bare Metal Devices


     
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    OpenManage Essentials 1.2 New Features 
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    OpenManage Essentials 1.2 Search Bar
     

     
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    OpenManage Essentials Overview Demo 
    0:08 - Installing OpenManage Essentals 
    0:56 - Discovery and Inventory
    2:03 - Monitoring Health of Devices
    2:43 - Using the Home Portal
    5:58 - Deploying Updates
    7:03 - KACE Integration + MonitoringOpenManage

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     Enable SNMP on OpenManage Server Administrator for ESXi4
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     Enable SNMP on OpenManage Server Administrator for Linux (RHEL)
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     OpenManage Essentials Custom Alerts
     OpenManage Essentials Apply System Updates
     Installing Dell OpenManage Essentials
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    Introducing OpenUSM – Simplifying Server Management & Insight Log Analytics using Docker containers

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    Containers are changing the dynamics of modern data center. It is a growing technology that is drawing widespread attention across the Enterprise IT. One of the primary reason of the rise & adoption of containers is that it allows developers to move faster. Compared to VMs which takes minutes to stand up, containers take milliseconds and even microseconds. As organizations prioritize shipping new products and features faster, to keep up in the software-eaten world, developers are favoring technology that allows them to scale applications and deploy resources much faster than what traditional VMs on public and private clouds can support.

    Docker containers bring variety of cost and performance benefits. It brings ability to run multiple applications on the same server or OS without a hypervisor which eliminates the drag of the hypervisor on system resources, which means that your workloads have a lighter footprint – the container footprint is zero, because it’s simply a boundary of permissions and resources within Linux. They fire up and decommission very rapidly compared to virtual machines – a perfect fit for the ephemeral nature of today’s short-lived workloads, which are often tied to real world events.

    Docker is an open platform which make application and workloads more portable and distributed in an effective and standardized way. Combining Docker containers, micro services along with software-defined infrastructure makes the datacenter more agile and quick resource reallocation. Hence, this architecture works well to improve the datacenter operations.

    Most DellEMC Server Management software offerings, as well as the entire Software Defined Infrastructure, are built upon standard implementation using RESTful architecture called Redfish. Redfish is a next generation system management standard using a data model representation inside a hypermedia RESTful interface. The data model is defined in terms of a standard, machine-readable schema, with the payload of the messages expressed in JSON and the protocol using OData v4. Since it is a hypermedia API, Redfish is capable of representing a variety of implementations by using a consistent interface. It has mechanisms for discovering and managing data center resources, handling events, and managing long-lived tasks. It is easy to implement, easy to consume and offer scalability advantages over old technologies. Redfish is a RESTful interface over HTTPS in JSON format based on ODATA v4 usable by clients, scripts, and browser-based GUIs

     

    What is OpenUSM?

     

     

    OpenUSM stands for Open Universal Systems Manager. It is basically a multi-tool product like “a Swiss army knife”. It is a suite of open source tools & scripts which purely uses containers & related tools to perform server management tasks, monitoring & insight Log Analytics. It is 100% container based solution which heavily uses Docker for building microservices for system management tasks like BIOS token change, Firmware update. It is completely an out-of-band system management solution purely based on Redfish API Interface. It is a platform agnostic solution (can be run from laptop, server or cloud) and works on any of Linux or Windows platform with Docker Engine running on top of it.

     

    Value Proposition:

    OpenUSM follow an easy deployment model. It uses developer’s tools like Docker Compose & CLI to bring up microservices which ensures that system management tasks can be achieved flawlessly. It uses modern tools & technologies and integrates well with near real-time search analytics tools like ELK stack. It enables Sensor Log Analytics & visualization for operations team using the popular Grafana tool. It can scale both vertically & horizontally. As it is completely open source, you are free to build and customize based on your needs and holds a plug-and-play components and functionalities.

     

    Technology Overview of OpenUSM:

     

    OpenUSM is an integrated container solution which brings 3 basic functionalities– system management, monitoring and insight log analytics. System Management stack sits at the middle of the architecture which uses Python, Redfish, Django, Docker & Docker compose to enable system management tasks. On the left hand side of the architecture, we have monitoring stack which uses Prometheus, Grafana, Alert-Manager and Pushgateway to retrieve GPU and Sensor metrics. On the right hand side, it consists of open source version of Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana for sensors, lifecycle controller & SEL logs.

      

     

    Understanding OpenUSM System Management WorkFlow

    OpenUSM uses "Container-Per-Server (CPS)" model. For each server management tasks, there are scripts which when executed builds and run Docker containers against each of server platform. It purely uses Redfish API to communicate directly with Dell iDRAC, collects iDRAC/LC logs and pushes it to syslog server. Logstash collects the syslog server and pushes to elasticsearch and finally it gets visualized through Kibana. OpenUSM uses Prometheus Stack for monitoring System components like GPU/CPU monitoring using nvidia-docker & node exporter.

     

     

    Under this blog post, I am going to demonstrate how OpenUSM simplifies the overall system management tasks with the help of Docker containers & Redfish. For this demonstration, I will leverage Ubuntu 17.10 VM running on my ESXi 6.0 system. This code should work on any of Linux & Windows platform too.

    The source code for this project is open to the public and is available under https://github.com/openusm/openusm

     Cloning the Repository

     

                                $git clone https://github.com/openusm/opensum

     

    Bootstrapping Docker

    If you have Docker already installed on your system, you can skip to next step. If not, run the below command to install Docker & Docker Compose on your system.

     

                                 $sh bootstrap.sh install_docker

     

    Based on your network connectivity, this step will take 1-2 minutes to complete.

    Bootstrapping ELK

    OpenUSM is 100% containerized solution and hence we will be running ELK inside Docker containers. To keep it simple, we designed a docker-compose file which can get you started in a matter of seconds.

    Execute the same bootstrap file to bring up ELK stack as shown below:

     

                                 $sh bootstrap.sh provision_elk

     

    Just wait for 30-40 seconds to get ELK stack up and running.

     

    Verifying the ELK services

    Run the below command to check if ELK services are up and running:

     

                               $sh bootstrap.sh logs

     

     Pushing DellEMC iDRAC Logs to ELK Stack

    Under this section, I am going to demonstrate how OpenUSM makes it so easy to push logs of DellEMC system management tasks to a centralized ELK stack and get it visualized via Kibana . Let us pick up a simple “BIOS Token Change” functionality and apply it for multitude of DellEMC servers.

    To keep it simple, we designed a script named “bios-token.py” which is placed under the root of OpenUSM GIT repository. Let us first look at various parameters which can be supplied with bios-token.py script -

     

    $ python bios-token.py --help

    usage: bios-token.py [-h] [--verbose] [-i IDRAC] [-n NFS] [-s SHARE]

                         [-c CONFIG] [-f IPS]

     

    Welcome to Universal Systems Manager Bios Token Change

     

    optional arguments:

    -h, --help          show this help message and exit

    --verbose             Turn on verbose logging

    -i IDRAC, --idrac IDRAC

                           iDRAC IP of the Host

    -n NFS, --nfs NFS     NFS server IP address

    -s SHARE, --share SHARE

                           NFS Share folder

    -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG

                           XML File to be imported

    -f IPS, --ips IPS     IP files to be updated

     

    As shown above, the script is targeted both at a single Dell server as well as multitude of DellEMC servers via a plain text file. We are currently looking at Autodiscovery feature to automate this functionality. One need to provide NFS server IP, share name and BIOS token configuration files as argument to execute it successfully. Once this script is invoked, it creates as many number of Docker containers per DellEMC servers, collects iDRAC logs from each of servers and pushes it to syslog server which runs inside Docker container. Logstash collects it from syslog and dumps it into Elasticsearch to get it visualized under Kibana UI.

    $bios-token.py -f ips.txt -s /var/nfsshare -c biosconfig.xml -n <NFS server-IP>

     

    where,

    /var/nfsshare => NFS share

    ips.txt => list of DellEMC iDRAC IP

    biosconfig.xml => XML definining the BIOS tokens entry

      

    By now, you should be able to see iDRAC logs visualized under Kibana UI. We can perform ample amount of customization around Kibana UI to display the logs per server basis.

     

    Insight Log Analytics (LC, SEL & Sensor Logs)

    Unpacking OpenUSM secrets further, this marks as an interesting use case and robust capability around insight Log Analytics. DellEMC server generates varieties of logs like system event logs (SEL), RAID controller logs & Lifecycle controller (LC) logs. When a system event occurs on a managed system, it is recorded in the System Event Log (SEL). The SEL page displays a system health indicator, a time stamp, and a description for each event logged. The same SEL entry is also available in the Lifecycle Controller (LC) log.

    Considering a certain use cases where datacenter administrator want to collect LC logs for the last 1 year, it definitely requires a robust and modern tool to collect such huge data and perform analysis on top of the specific software.

    We recently designed a script which simplifies such log analytics capability using Docker, Redfish & ELK. You can find the “lclogexporter.py” script under the root of GITHUB repository:

     
     $ python lclogexporter.py -f ips.txt -ei <ip-address of ELK> -eu elastic -ep changeme

     

    This script requires elasticsearch IP address, credentials & list of iDRAC IPs to get all iDRAC LC logs pushed to ELK stack. Whenever you execute this script, it will build a Docker image called “openusm-analytics” first and run this container which automatically pushes all LC, SEL and Sensors logs to ELK stack.

     

     Below is the Kibana UI visualizing Pie-Chart for Dell Lifecycle Controller logs collected for the last 1 year timeframe.

     

                                                               Insight Log Metrics (Sensor Logs) using Grafana

     

      

     

    Did you find OpenUSM an interesting project? Want to contribute? OpenUSM is just 3 months old project and we are looking out for contributors across the globe. If you think the project really looks cool, come & join us to make it more robust. We welcome your participation.

     

     

     

     

     


    Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios Core

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    Overview:

    Dell EMC OpenManage™ Plug-in for Nagios Core provides a proactive approach to data center management that delivers features for monitoring 12th and later generations of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers through an agent-free method using Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller (LC) technology, Modular infrastructure, Storage and Networking devices in the Nagios Core console. With this plug-in, customers have comprehensive hardware-level visibility of PowerEdge servers, modular infrastructure, storage and networking devices including overall and component-level health monitoring for quicker fault detection and resolution.

    What is new in Version 3.0?

    • Agent-free monitoring support for new 14G Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers platforms – R440, R540, T440, T640, M640, FC640, C4140, and AMD EPYC™ Platforms (R6415, R7415, R7425)
    • iDRAC Redfish REST API support for discovery, inventory and monitoring of PowerEdge Server platforms
    • Support for discovery, inventory and monitoring of Dell EMC Networking switches - C-Series, S-Series, N-Series and Z-Series
    • Simplified Plug-in installation and deployment by removing multiple dependencies on open source components and Perl modules
    • Improved and faster discovery, inventory and service checks with the new Plug-In architecture completely re-written in Python
    • Enhanced Host and Service checks

    Existing Key Features in Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios Core

    • Discover and monitor following Dell EMC devices:
      • Dell EMC PowerEdge 12th and later generation of servers
      • Dell EMC PowerEdge M1000e, VRTX, and FX2/FX2s modular infrastructure
      • Dell EMC Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Platforms - VxRail, XC-Series 
      • EqualLogic PS-Series Storage Arrays
      • Compellent SC-Series Storage Arrays
      • PowerVault MD 34/38 Series Storage Arrays
    • Provide basic system information including component-level details the following Dell EMC devices:
      • Dell EMC PowerEdge 12th and later generation of servers
      • Dell EMC PowerEdge M1000e, VRTX, and FX2/FX2s modular infrastructure
      • Dell EMC Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Platforms - VxRail, XC-Series
      • EqualLogic PS-Series Storage Arrays
      • Compellent SC-Series Storage Arrays
      • PowerVault MD 34/38 Storage Arrays
    • Monitor health of the following components of the supported Dell EMC devices:
      • Power Supply, Fan, I/O, Slot, and KVM of the supported Dell EMC chassis
      • Enclosure, Controller, Physical Disk, and Virtual Disk of PowerEdge VRTX Chassis
      • PCIe of PowerEdge VRTX and PowerEdge FX2/FX2s chassis
      • Member Physical Disk, Storage Pool, and Group Volume of Dell EqualLogic PS-Series Storage Arrays
      • Physical Disk and Volume of Compellent SC-Series Storage Arrays
    • Provide warranty information of the supported Dell EMC devices
    • Monitor SNMP alerts from all the supported Dell EMC devices
    • View alert Knowledge Base (KB) information of the following Dell EMC devices corresponding to a SNMP alert for faster troubleshooting:
      • 12th and later generations of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
      • Dell EMC PowerEdge M1000e, VRTX, and FX2/FX2s chassis
      • EqualLogic PS-Series Storage Arrays
    • Launch the following web consoles from Nagios Core to perform further troubleshooting, configuration, or management activities:
      • iDRAC web console
      • Chassis Management Controller (CMC) Console
      • EqualLogic Group Manager Console
      • Compellent Enterprise Manager Console

    Key Business Benefits

    • Protect existing investment in Nagios Core product to easily integrate and monitor Dell EMC servers, modular infrastructure and storage within customer’s infrastructure
    • Improve operational efficiency and flexibility in managing large heterogeneous data center environment
    • Increase productivity by reducing time to maintain, monitor and troubleshoot any issue in server infrastructure
    • Make informed and rapid decisions impacting the availability of data center resources

    Licensing Details

    Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios Core is available as a software download offered at NO CHARGE to customers.

    Download

    Documentation

    v3.0v2.1v2.0v1.0
    Installation GuideInstallation GuideInstallation GuideInstallation Guide
    User's GuideUsers's GuideUser's GuideUser's Guide
    Release NotesRelease NotesRelease NotesRelease Notes

    Technical Articles & Whitepapers

    Videos

    • Overview of Dell OpenManage Plug-in v2.0 for Nagios Core

      (Please visit the site to view this video)
    • Upgrading to Dell OpenManage Plug-in version 2.0 for Nagios Core

      (Please visit the site to view this video)
    • Overview of Dell OpenManage Plug-in v1.0 for Nagios Core

      (Please visit the site to view this video)
    • Installation of Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios Core

      (Please visit the site to view this video)
    • Integrating SNMP traps in Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios Core

      (Please visit the site to view this video)
    • Un-installation of Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios Core

      (Please visit the site to view this video)

    ·        Agent-free monitoring support for 14th Generation of Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers

    ·        Simplified Plug-in installation and deployment by removing multiple dependencies on open source components and Perl modules

    Tags: agent-free, VxRail, openmanage, Warranty monitoring, out-of-band, 14g, Lifecycle Controller WS-MAN SNMP third party, connection, Nagios Core, Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers, hyper-converged, iDRAC, Nutanix XC-Series

    Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios XI

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    Overview

    Dell OpenManage™ Plug-in for Nagios XI provides capabilities for monitoring 12th and later generations of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers through an Agent-Freemethod using Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller (LC), Modular Infrastructure, Storage and Networking devices directly from within the Nagios XI console. With this plug-in, customers have comprehensive hardware-level visibility of Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers, Modular Infrastructures, Storage and Networking devices including overall and component-level health monitoring for quicker fault detection and resolution.

    What is new in Version 3.0?

    • Agent-free monitoring support for new 14G Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers platforms – R640, R740, R740xd, R940, C6420, R440, R540, T440, T640, M640, FC640, C4140, and AMD EPYC™ Platforms (R6415, R7415, R7425)
    • iDRAC Redfish REST API support for discovery, inventory and monitoring of PowerEdge Server platforms
    • Agent-free discovery, inventory and monitoring of Dell EMC Hyper-Converged Infrastructure platforms - VxRail™ and Nutanix XC-Series
    • Support for discovery, inventory and monitoring of Dell EMC Networking switches - C-Series, S-Series, N-Series, Z-Series, and Blade IO (MIOA/MXL for M1000e, FN-IOM/FN-IOA for FX2/FX2s)
    • Simplified Plug-in installation and deployment by removing multiple dependencies on open source components and Perl modules
    • Improved and faster discovery, inventory and service checks with the new Plug-In architecture completely re-written in Python
    • Enhanced Host and Service checks
    • Enhanced H/W warranty monitoring for all supported devices

    Existing Key Features in OpenManage Plug-In for Nagios XI

    • An automated and guided Dell EMC Configuration Wizard for discovery and monitoring configuration for following Dell devices:

      • Dell EMC PowerEdge 12th and later generation of servers

      • Dell EMC PowerEdge M1000e, VRTX, and FX2/FX2s modular infrastructure

      • EqualLogic PS-Series Storage Arrays

      • Compellent SC-Series Storage Arrays

      • PowerVault MD 34/38 Series Storage Arrays

    • Provide basic System information including Component-level details of the following Dell devices:

      • Dell EMC PowerEdge 12th and later generation of servers

      • Dell EMC PowerEdge M1000e, VRTX, and FX2/FX2s modular infrastructure

      • EqualLogic PS-Series Storage Arrays

      • Compellent SC-Series Storage Arrays

      • PowerVault MD 34/38 Storage Arrays

    • Monitor Overall Health including health of the following components of the supported Dell devices:

      • CPU, Memory, Physical Disk, Virtual Disk, Controller, Fan, Power Supply, Battery, Temperature Probe, Voltage Probe, Network Device, SD Card, Amperage Probe, Intrusion and FC NIC of the Dell PowerEdge Servers

      • Power Supply, Fan, I/O, Slot, and KVM of the supported Dell chassis

      • Enclosure, Controller, Physical Disk, and Virtual Disk of Dell PowerEdge VRTX Chassis

      • PCIe of Dell PowerEdge VRTX and PowerEdge FX2/FX2s chassis

      • Member Physical Disk, Storage Pool, and Group Volume of Dell EqualLogic PS-Series Storage Arrays

      • Physical Disk and Volume of Dell Compellent Storage Arrays

    • Provide Warranty information of the supported Dell devices and alert based on days remaining for warranty expiration

    • SNMP alerts monitoring from all the supported Dell devices

    • View Alert Knowledge Base (KB) information of the following Dell devices corresponding to a SNMP alert for faster troubleshooting:

      • 12th and later generations of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers

      • Dell EMC PowerEdge M1000e, VRTX, and FX2/FX2s modular inrastructure

      • EqualLogic PS-Series Storage Arrays

    • Launch the following 1:1 and 1:Many web consoles from Nagios XI to perform further troubleshooting, configuration, or management activities:

      • iDRAC web console for PowerEdge Servers and HCI (VxRail, XC-Series) compute nodes

      • Chassis Management Controller (CMC) Console for M1000e, VRTX and FX2/FX2s

      • EqualLogic Group Manager Console for PS-Series Storage Arrays

      • Compellent Enterprise Manager Console for SC-Series Storage Arrays

    Business Benefits

    • Protect existing investment in Nagios XI product to easily integrate and monitor Dell servers, chassis and storages within customer’s infrastructure

    • This eases the administrator’s burden by having a single pane of glass to monitor the heterogeneous hardware platforms, which eventually improve the operational efficiency and flexibility in data center management

    • Increase productivity by reducing time to maintain, monitor and troubleshoot any issue in server infrastructure

    • Make informed and rapid decisions impacting the availability of data center resources

    Licensing Details

    Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios XI is available as a software download offered at no charge to customers.

    Download

    Documentation

    v3.0v1.0
    Installation GuideInstallation Guide
    User's GuideUser's Guide
    Release NotesRelease Notes

    Technical Article & Wikis

     

    Videos

    • Overview of Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios XI

    (Please visit the site to view this video)

    • Installation of Dell OpenManage Plug-in for Nagios XI 

    (Please visit the site to view this video)

     

    Tags: CMC VRTX M1000e OpenManage, Dell Storage, agent-free, alerts, #OpenManage, openmanage, plug-in, Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller Enterprise, CMC, out-of-band, 13th generation poweredge, PowerVault MD, poweredge, EqualLogic, alert, 13G, monitoring, Lifecycle Controller, Nagios Core, Dell, Compellent, 12g, Redfish, iDRAC, ws-man, Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller, Nagios XI, snmp, dmtf, REST API

    OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

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    Getting StartedFeatures
    ManualsDownloads
    WhitepapersOther Resources

    What is the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter?

    The OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV) is designed to streamline the management processes in your data center environment by allowing you to use VMware vCenter Server to manage your full server infrastructure - both physical and virtual. From monitoring system level information, bubbling up system alerts for action in vCenter, rolling out firmware updates for an ESXi or vSAN cluster that can leverage DRS, to bare metal deployment, the OpenManage Integration will expand and enrich your data center management experience with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.

    In addition to the integration for vCenter, OMIVV includes rights for a server management pack for vRealize Operations Manager. This leverages the vCenter integration to provide hardware alerts and new dashboards, giving hardware relationship mapping into the vRealize Operations data for better troubleshooting and combined reporting.

    OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter - Value proposition

    This video gives an overview of what the integration can do for you as an administrator.

    Getting Started

    To download a free 5 host, 90 day evaluation appliance for version 4.2, please click here. It's also strongly recommended you check out the Release Notes and Installation Guide to know the proper prerequirements before starting installation.

    The following video steps through the installation process:

    (Please visit the site to view this video)

    Latest Updates

    OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter v4.2(Download) (Manuals)
    •    Initial vSAN support for all certified 12th – 14th generation PowerEdge platforms
    •    vSphere 6.7 support
    •    Support for the latest 14th generation PowerEdge servers

    OpenManage Management Pack for vRealize Operations v1.1
    •    vRealize Operations v6.6 support (still includes v6.3, v6.4, v6.5 support)
    •    Dashboard reporting to separate HDD and SSD monitoring / management
    •    Supported for OMIVV v4.0 and higher (4.0.1, 4.1)

    OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Features

    FeaturesDescription
    BIOS and firmware updates • Be able to schedule and deploy firmware stack updates for PowerEdge servers directly within vCenter
    • With both vSphere and vSAN clusters that have VMware DRS enabled, be able to deploy cluster aware updates that set a host in maintenance mode, update, then bring it back online before moving to the next.
    Deep level detail for hardware inventory • Full inventory information on PowerEdge server and chassis, such as quantity, part type, and slot, for Dell EMC certified components such as processor, memory, IO cards, fan / thermal details, local storage, and more.
    Monitoring and alerting • Hardware information and alerts pulled into vCenter with controls to allow for setting on notification and manual approval or automatic events in relation to the alert.
    • Support for VMware ProActive HA to further leverage vCenter policies on automating specific hardware redundancy loss events (requires OMIVV 4.0 or higher and vCenter 6.5 or higher)
    • With the OpenManage Management Pack for vRealize Operations (requires 4.0 or higher), also see top alerts and health status in vRealize Operations
    Host configuration and ESXi deployments • Link up hardware configurations and specific ESXi images so after connecting to a PowerEdge host, configuration and deployment can be done quickly and bring the host into vCenter
    • With PowerEdge servers ordered with Provisioning Server Enabled, be able to auto-detect the bare-metal host when added to the management network and quickly configure the hardware, deploy ESXi, and bring it into vCenter
    Online warranty information • Key support information is available at your fingertips within vCenter for your PowerEdge environment by including service tag, service provider, warranty type, and service dates at the server, chassis, or cluster level

    OMIVV VersionvSphere SupportvCenter SupportvSphere Client SupportOM vROps management pack support
    4.25.0 - 6.75.1 U2 - 6.7FlexComing soon
    4.15.0 - 6.5 U15.1 U2 - 6.5 U1Flex1.0, 1.1
    4.0.15.0 - 6.55.1 U2 - 6.5Flex1.0, 1.1
    4.05.0 - 6.0 U2, 6.55.1 U2 - 6.0 U2, 6.5Flex1.0, 1.1
    3.25.0 - 6.0 U35.1 U2 - 6.0 U3Desktop, FlexNot supported
    3.1.15.0 - 6.0 U25.1 U2 - 6.0 U2Desktop, FlexNot supported
    3.15.0 - 6.0 U25.1 U2 - 6.0 U2Desktop, FlexNot supported
    3.05.0 - 6.05.1 U2 - 6.0Desktop, FlexNot supported

    OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter - Downloads

    4.x Versions3.x Versions
    Latest
    4.2
    3.2
    4.1 3.1 (please also download the additional 3.1.1 patch; see 3.1 Install guide for instructions)
    4.0.1 3.0

    OpenManage Management Pack for vRealize Operations - Downloads

    1.1 (Requires OMIVV v4.0 or higher)
    1.0 (Requires OMIVV v4.0 or higher)

    OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter - Manuals

    4.x Versions3.x Versions
    Latest
    4.2
    3.2
    4.1 3.1
    4.0.1 3.0

    OpenManage Management pack for vRealize Operations - Manuals

    1.1
    1.0

    Whitepapers

    Updating BIOS and firmware on 11th gen with OMIVV
    Proactive HA with OMIVV
    Technical overview
    How licensing works
    How to connect servers
    Generating reports
    How to use bare-metal server discovery
    Hypervisor deployment
    Using Dell Repository Manager with OMIVV
    How to do firmware updates
    How to update using a local update directory

    Other Resources

    OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter on Dell.com

    Tags: Dell Management Plug-In, OpenManage integration, openmanage, VMware vCenter, plug in, VMware, Virtualization

    iDRAC9 Home

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    What's new in iDRAC9?iDRAC8 Home
    iDRAC9 Current ReleaseiDRAC7 Home
    iDRAC9 ManualsiDRAC6 Home
    iDRAC9 White PapersDRAC5 Home
     Lifecycle Controller Home
    iDRAC Service Module (iSM) Home
     

      

    What's new in iDRAC9?

    The integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9) with Lifecycle Controller is embedded within every Dell EMC PowerEdge™ server and provides functionality that helps IT administrators deploy, update, monitor, and maintain  servers with no need for any additional software to be installed.   iDRAC functions regardless of operating system or hypervisor presence because from a pre-OS or bare-metal state, iDRAC is ready to work because it is embedded within each server from the factory.  The new iDRAC9 delivers the following revolutionary systems management capabilities:

    • Industry leading firsts
      • Multi Vector Cooling for precise air flow cooling of 3rd party PCIe cards.
      • Connection View provides the switch and port for iDRAC, LOM’s and Dell supported PCIe cards.
      • Expanded “Agent free” storage management functions such as Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and RAID Level Migration (RLM)
      • Quick Sync 2 with BLE/Wi-Fi for at the server mobile/tablet access
      • System Lockdown feature restricts use of Dell tools to make changes to BIOS, iDRAC, firmware, etc  (Security)
    • Automation additions
      • Support for Redfish 2016.R1 and .R2
      • Server Configuration Profile (SCP) new features
      • local file streaming via Wsman and Redfish
      • HTTP/S file transfer
      • available in JSON format along with XML
      • firmware repository  based updates
    • Security Improvements
      • Random Password is the default iDRAC password (“calvin” is an orderable option)
      • Security warning banner on log in page
      • Hardware Root of Trust for iDRAC and BIOS booting
    • GUI Enhancements
      • Full HTML5 web interface for faster page loading and ease of use
      • Export and import SCP
      • Added Power Control and Next Boot options in HTML5 vConsole (huge customer demand, including Dell IT)
      • BIOS configuration in the iDRAC GUI
      • Group Manager – self-contained code in iDRAC allows SMB customers a quick health overview of all servers in the group
    • SupportAssist – faster time to resolution
      • iDRAC Service Module (iSM) is pre-installed on the iDRAC; helps gather logs used to troubleshoot errors
      • SupportAssist 1x1 ‘phone home’ service to Dell Support – great for SMB customers
      • SupportAssist Collector now includes iDRAC core dumps, hardware crash dumps, and ESXi logs for more accurate resolution
      • SupportAssist Viewer – detailed log report for customer viewing by standard web browsers.


    If you are new to iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller, check out the "how to" videos we have on youtube.com here.


    The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) is designed to make server administrators more productive and improve the overall availability of Dell servers. iDRAC alerts administrators to server issues, helps them perform remote server management, and reduces the need for physical access to the server.

    Download the iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller Specification Sheet here.

    iDRAC9

    Downloads and Release Notes

    Current Version 3.15.17.15 (28 Mar 2018)

    iDRAC9 14th Generation PowerEdge Download

      

    iDRAC9 3.00.00.00 Documentation
    iDRAC9 v3.00.00.00 User’s Guide PDF (10302 KB)
    iDRAC9 with LC for Dell PowerEdge Servers Version 3.00.00.00 Release Notes PDF (98 KB)
    iDRAC9 v3.00.00.00 Redfish API Reference Guide PDF (1046 KB)
    iDRAC9 v3.00.00.00 RACADM CLI Guide PDF (3156 KB)
    Dell Lifecycle Controller GUI v3.00.00.00 User's Guide PDF (959 KB)
    Dell Lifecycle Controller Remote Services v3.00.00.00 Quick Start Guide PDF (433 KB)
    14G L1 Lifecycle Controller Operating System Driver Pack Version 17.05.21 Reference Guide

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    Tags: Lifecycle, Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller Enterprise, DRAC, iDRAC7, iDRAC6, web services, Systems Management, iDRAC7 Troubleshooting, LC Management, iDRAC, ws-man, DRAC script, Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller, system management, Wsman, lc

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    Frequently Asked Questions about Dell EMC Repository Manager

    Click here to go to the main product page for Repository manager - it contains download links, demos, and a product description.


    Where does DRM get the information that it uses to create the initial repository?
    RM pulls catalogs from the Dell ftp site. For your convenience DRM can directly connect to the relevant catalogs on the Dell ftp site, so you don’t need to know where they are located.


    Do I have to run Dell EMC Repository Manager from a server?
    No. Dell Repository Manager can be run from a desktop or laptop that is running Windows XP/Vista/Win7 operating system.
    If you want to, you can run DRM from any server using Windows Server operating system.

    However, DRM cannot be run on a system running Linux.


    What is Server Update Utility (SUU)?
    SUU is a tool that allows user to view available updates, compares those to versions currently installed on the server, and provides option to apply selected updates. An SUU contains a collection of Dell Update Packages (DUPs) that can be applied as a group.


    Can RM work with Server Update Utility (SUU)?
    Yes. RM can create a catalog of files that SUU can use. To make it easier, right from RM you can create a custom SUU that contains the SUU engine and a custom catalog.


    Can I deploy an update package from Dell EMC Repository Manager?
    No. DRM is a tool for creating a package of updates that can be used by an update tool such as SUU.


    What generation of servers does Dell EMC Repository Manager (DRM) support?
    RM supports PowerEdge 11G and newer servers.


    Can DRM be used to manage update catalogs from other vendors, like HP or IBM?
    No

    I have created my own update tools for my servers, how can RM help me?
    With DRM you can save as a scriptable file. Dell provides a recommended script for you to use, however you can attach your own script if you want.
    If your tool has been created to use DUPs, DRM can save the output as a repository of DUPs that your tool can use.


    I am using Solaris (or Ubuntu, Debian, etc…). How can RM help me?
    With RM, you can create a bootable ISO image that you can use to install updates on your system. Once you create the bootable file you can reboot your system using it and deploy the updates accordingly.

    I am using VMWare, how can RM help me?
    With DRM, select the bundles for the system that you want to manage. Save those file using the Lightweight Deployment Script option. Then execute this file in the ESX service console. The script provided by Dell will run all the DUP and apply the updates.

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