Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise User's Guide

1 Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise 's GuideVersion 2021 Rev. 1 Notes, cautions, and warningsNOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your : A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoidthe : A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. 2017 - 2021 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its trademarks may be trademarks of their respective historyThe following table shows the revision history of this document:RevisionDateDescription1 October 2021 First release of OpenManage Enterprise Ability to configure the internal appliance share to furnish content through HTTPS or CIFS(default). Deployment of appliance on Windows 2022 is supported. You can now upload the signed .dat file and SSH public key using the Audit Logs >Troubleshoot submenu rather than the Text user Interface (TUI) when the Field ServiceDebug (FSD) is history3 PrefaceAs part of an effort to improve product lines, we periodically release revisions of software.

2 Therefore, some functions describedin this document might not be supported by all versions of the software currently in use. The product release notes provide themost up-to-date information on product your technical support professional if a product does not function properly or does not function as described in : This document was accurate at publication time. Go to Online Support ( ) to ensurethat you are using the latest version of this document includes conceptual information on managing OpenManage document is intended for use by administrators, device managers, and viewers who use OpenManage Enterprise forsystems management and documentationThe following publications provide additional information: OpenManage Enterprise Support Matrix OpenManage Enterprise Release Notes OpenManage Enterprise Security Configuration Guide OpenManage Enterprise User's Guide OpenManage Enterprise RESTful API Guide OpenManage Enterprise RESTful API at OpenManage Enterprise Modular Edition Release Notes OpenManage Enterprise Modular Edition RESTful API GuideIn addition to the core documents, we also provide white papers, plugin documentation and demos on conventionsThis document uses the following style conventions.

3 BoldUsed for names of interface elements, such as names of windows, dialog boxes, buttons,fields, tab names, key names, and menu paths (what the user specifically selects or clicks)ItalicUsed for full titles of publications referenced in textMonospaceUsed for: System code System output, such as an error message or script Path names, filenames, prompts, and syntax Commands and optionsMonospace italicUsed for variablesMonospace boldUsed for user input[ ]Square brackets enclose optional values4 Preface|Vertical bar indicates alternate selections - the bar means "or"{ }Braces enclose content that the user must specify, such as x or y or indicate nonessential information omitted from the exampleProduct documentationNOTE: For video demos and tutorials, search for the Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise playlist on YouTube. For OpenManage Enterprise , go to display the documentation of: Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise , clickDell OpenManage Enterprise > Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise > Documentation.

4 Dell EMC OpenManage Mobile, clickOpenManage Mobile > Select the required version > Documentation. For OpenManage Enterprise plugins, go to display the documentation of: Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Services plugin, clickOpenManage Enterprise Connected Services > OpenManage Enterprise Services > Documentation. Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager plugin, click OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager > Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager >Documentation. Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Update Manager plugin, clickOpenManage Enterprise Update Manager > OpenManage Enterprise Update Manager > Documentation. Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise CloudIQ plugin, clickOpenManage Enterprise Connected Services > OpenManage Enterprise CloudIQ > Documentation. For OpenManage Enterprise APIs, go to ,To display the API documentation of: Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise , click Servers > OpenManage Enterprise API Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Modular Edition, click Servers > OpenManage Enterprise Modular API Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Services plugin, click Servers > OpenManage Enterprise Services API.

5 Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Update Manager plugin, click Servers > OpenManage Enterprise Update ManagerAPI Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager plugin, click Servers > OpenManage Enterprise Power ManagerAPI Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise CloudIQ plugin, click CloudIQ Public APIP roduct informationFor documentation, release notes, software updates, or information about products, go to Online Support at to get helpGo to Online Support at and click Contact Support. To open a service request, you must have a validsupport agreement. Contact your sales representative for details about obtaining a valid support agreement or with questionsabout your to find the support matrixConsult the Support Matrix on Dell OpenManage Enterprise at and commentsYour suggestions will help us continue to improve the accuracy, organization, and overall quality of the user publications. Sendyour opinions of this document to 13 Chapter 1: About Dell EMC OpenManage 14 OpenManage Enterprise Advanced 15 License-based features in OpenManage 2: Security features in OpenManage 17 OpenManage Enterprise user role 17 Role and scope-based access control in OpenManage Enterprise .

6 18 Chapter 3: Install OpenManage 22 Installation prerequisites and minimum recommended 22 Minimum system requirements for deploying OpenManage 23 Deploy OpenManage Enterprise on VMware 23 Deploy OpenManage Enterprise on Hyper-V 2012 R2 and earlier 24 Deploy OpenManage Enterprise on Hyper-V 2016 25 Deploy OpenManage Enterprise on Hyper-V 2019 or Windows 2022 26 Deploy OpenManage Enterprise by using Kernel-based Virtual 27 Deploy OpenManage Enterprise 27 Chapter 4: Get started with OpenManage 29 Log in to OpenManage 29 Configure OpenManage Enterprise by using Text user 29 Configure OpenManage 33 Recommended scalability and performance settings for optimal usage of OpenManage 33 Supported protocols and ports in OpenManage 34 Use case links for the supported protocols and ports in OpenManage 37 Chapter 5: OpenManage Enterprise Graphical user Interface 38 Chapter 6: OpenManage Enterprise Home 40 Monitor devices by using the OpenManage Enterprise 40 Donut health 42 Chapter 7: Discovering devices for monitoring or servers automatically by using the server-initiated discovery feature.

7 45 Create a device discovery 46 Onboarding support matrix for discovering device discovery job a device discovery 50 Run a device discovery 50 Stop a device discovery multiple devices by importing data from the .csv 50 Global exclusion of 51 Specify discovery mode for creating a server discovery customized device discovery job protocol for servers Additional settings for 52 Specify discovery mode for creating a chassis discovery 53 Create customized device discovery job protocol for Chassis Additional settings for 54 Specify discovery mode for creating a Dell storage discovery 55 Specify discovery mode for creating a network switch discovery customized device discovery job protocol HTTPS storage devices Additional settings fordiscovery 55 Create customized device discovery job protocol for SNMP 56 Specify discovery mode for creating a MULTIPLE protocol discovery a device discovery 8: Manage devices and device devices into a custom group (Static or Query).

8 60 Create a Static device a Query device 61 Edit a static 62 Edit a query 63 Rename a static or query a static or query device 63 Clone a static or query 64 Add devices to a new 64 Add devices to existing 64 Refresh health on 65 Devices 65 All Devices page device list 66 Delete devices from OpenManage 67 Exclude devices from OpenManage 67 Run inventory on 68 Update the device firmware and drivers by using the device health of a device 69 Refresh health on 70 Roll back an individual device's firmware 70 Export the single device more actions on chassis and 71 Hardware information displayed for MX7000 chassis ..71 Export all or selected 71 View and configure individual 72 Device 72 Device hardware 73 Run and download Diagnostic 748 ContentsExtract and download Services (SupportAssist) 74 Managing individual device hardware 75 Run remote RACADM and IPMI commands on individual 75 Start Management application iDRAC of a 75 Start the Virtual 76 Refresh device inventory of a single 76 Chapter 9: Managing device 77 Create an inventory an inventory job 78 Stop an inventory 78 Delete an inventory 79 Edit an inventory schedule 79 Chapter 10.

9 Manage the device firmware and firmware and driver 81 Add a catalog by using 81 Add a catalog to the local 82 SSL Certificate 83 Update a a a 84 Create a firmware/driver 84 Delete configuration compliance 85 Edit a 86 Check the compliance of a device firmware and 86 View the baseline compliance 86 Update firmware and/or drivers using the baseline compliance 87 Chapter 11: Manage device deployment 90 Create a Deployment template from a reference 90 Create a deployment template by importing a template 91 View a deployment template a server deployment 92 Edit a chassis deployment 93 Edit IOA deployment 94 Edit network properties of a deployment 94 Deploy device deployment IOA deployment 96 Clone deployment 97 Auto deployment of configuration on yet-to-be-discovered servers or 97 Create auto deployment targets .. 98 Delete auto deployment targets ..99 Export auto deployment target details to different 99 Overview of stateless identity pools Stateless Identity Pool - Pool 100 Define 105 Network 106 Contents9 Edit or delete a configured 106 Export VLAN network 107 Chapter 12: Manage 109 Create Profile 111 Profiles view a 111 Assign a 113 Migrate a 114 Delete 114 Export Profile(s) data as HTML, CSV, or 13: Managing the device configuration 116 Manage compliance 117 Create a compliance template from deployment 117 Create a compliance template from reference 118 Create a compliance template by importing from a 118 Clone a compliance 118 Edit a compliance 119 Create a configuration compliance 119 Edit a configuration compliance configuration compliance 121 Refresh compliance of the configuration compliance baselines.

10 121 Remediate noncompliant devices .. 122 Export the Compliance Baseline 123 Remove a configuration compliance 123 Chapter 14: Monitor and Manage device 124 View alert 124 Manage alert 125 Alert and manage alert 127 Automatic refresh of MX7000 chassis on insertion and removal 131 Alert 131 Chapter 15: Monitor audit 133 Forward audit logs to remote Syslog 134 Chapter 16: Using jobs for device 136 View job 136 Jobs status and Jobs type 137 OpenManage Enterprise default jobs and 138 View an individual job 141 Create a job to turn device 141 Create a job for managing power 14210 ContentsCreate a Remote command job for managing 142 Create a job to change the virtual console plugin 143 Select target devices and device 143 Chapter 17: Manage the device 144 View and renew device 18: 146 Run and email 147 Edit 148 Copy 148 Delete query criteria when creating 150 Export selected 150 Chapter 19: Managing MIB MIB MIB MIB 154 Resolve MIB an OpenManage Enterprise MIB 20: Managing OpenManage Enterprise appliance 155 Configure OpenManage Enterprise network 156 Manage OpenManage Enterprise 156 Role and scope-based access control in OpenManage Enterprise .