Users Guide

End-to-End Hardware Management 43
End-to-End Hardware Management
The goal of end-to-end hardware management is to provide the system health
status and up-to-date infrastructure information that an administrator needs
to respond to critical hardware events without leaving the management
center or vCenter. End-to-end hardware management within the
Management Plug-In is broken down into four separate parts: monitoring,
inventory, advanced host management, and warranty retrieval.
Monitoring
Datacenter and host system monitoring allows an administrator to monitor
infrastructure health by displaying hardware (server and storage) and
virtualization-related events on the Tasks & Events tab in vCenter.
Additionally, critical hardware alarms can trigger the plug-in to put the host
system into a maintenance mode, and in certain cases migrate the virtual
machines to another host system. The Dell Plug-In forwards OMSA alarms,
and creates new ones for specific events. These alarms can then be used to
trigger actions that vCenter allows, like a reboot, maintenance mode, or
migrate. For examples, when a dual power supply fails and an alarm is created,
the resulting action can be to migrate the VM on that machine to a new one.
To perform monitoring:
1
Configure the Event and Alarm settings
2 Configure OMSA trap destinations, if needed.
3 Use the Tasks&Events tab in vCenter to review event information
Configure Event and Alarm Settings
To select event posting options and enable, disable, or restore alarms:
1
From the management center, select Settings - Events and Alarms .
2 Click Edit to display the configuration options.
3 Select the appropriate Event Posting Level :
•
Do not post any Events - Block hardware events.
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Post All Events - Post all hardware events.