Reference Guide

PowerEdge Product Group

Direct from

Development

Device Onboarding with OpenManage Enterprise

Tech Note by:

Ashwani Arora

Pushkala Iyer

SUMMARY

OpenManage Enterprise is both

a monitoring and a management

tool. This tech note describes

how to enable server

management using

administrator privileges, or to

simply monitor them using

reduced, non-administrator

privileges.

The new OpenManage Enterprise systems management console can be used

to monitor or manage servers. The term “monitor” implies reduced device

permissions when compared to “manage”. An IT Administrator who desires to

monitor the servers can provide lower-privileged credentials, thus allowing for

the devices to be contacted, discovered and monitored by OpenManage

Enterprise. Users wanting to interact more comprehensively with the servers go

beyond monitoring and implement the ability to manage them. By providing

administrator credentials during Server Discovery phase, management tasks

such as power control or firmware update can be run on the servers.

Typically, administrator credentials to the target devices are provided during

device discovery. Unlike previous consoles, with the new OpenManage

Enterprise console users can automatically “onboard” monitored servers to

manage them. The “Create Discovery Job” screen below shows how a user

can specify that “Servers” be discovered via their iDRAC IPs. Once the job is

run, administrator credentials (for management) or lower-privileged credentials

(for monitoring) can be provided.

Figure 1: OpenManage Enterprise “Create Discovery Job” screen showing how Device

Type “Servers” can be discovered using their IP/Hostname/Range.

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Direct from Development PowerEdge Product Group Device Onboarding with OpenManage Enterprise Tech Note by: Ashwani Arora Pushkala Iyer SUMMARY OpenManage Enterprise is both a monitoring and a management tool. This tech note describes how to enable server management using administrator privileges, or to simply monitor them using reduced, non-administrator privileges. The new OpenManage Enterprise systems management console can be used to monitor or manage servers.
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In OpenManage Enterprise, the Onboarding job runs automatically after every Discovery job and tries to onboard any compute device that has been discovered via its iDRAC interface, using the WSMAN protocol. Once devices are discovered, whether they are monitored or managed by OpenManage Enterprise can be seen from the All Devices view, by looking at the Onboarding state. This is shown in the “All Devices” screenshot below, by looking in the far right-hand column (“Onboarding State”).
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Problem Resolution A server that has been discovered via its iDRAC interface can be transitioned from “Monitored” or “Error” state to “Managed”. This can be done from the All-Devices view, such as the one shown in Figure 3 below: The user would select the device(s) that are in “Monitored” or “Error” state (highlighted in light blue below) then clicking on the “More Actions” button to open the drop down window. Here, the user would select “Onboarding” from the list of options.