Owner's Manual

128 Configuring Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems
Using IPMI Discovery in Tom’s Enterprise-Size
Business
Let us say that Tom has purchased 100 Dell PowerEdge x9xx systems for his
enterprise. These systems are equipped with the BMC/iDRAC that support
IPMI versions 1.5 or later. These new systems are uninstrumented, that is,
they do not have any Dell agent installed on them.
IT Assistant versions 8.0 and later communicate with the BMC/iDRAC
directly (out-of-band) or through the Windows IPMI Provider on a Windows
Server 2003 R2 system (in-band) and Windows Server 2008, and classifies
these systems under the Server category in the Device tree.
Using the IPMI discovery feature, Tom can:
• Classify his uninstrumented Dell devices
• View information about the uninstrumented devices
• Launch the Serial-Over-LAN (SOL) Proxy
• Launch the IPMI Shell (IPMISH) and perform remote power control tasks
on the managed systems
Classification and Display of Non-Dell Systems
Devices discovered through IPMI will display under Out of Band
Unclassified DevicesIPMI Unclassified Devices.
NOTE: This is applicable for non-Dell devices.
Each device will display in the tree as <server hostname>.
NOTE: If the host name is unavailable, the device will display the device IP address.
Devices with IPMI version 1.5 support only a limited notion of system health,
including intrusion, fans, power supplies, and drives (off the internal
backplane only). This health is a yellow or green indicator. Devices with IPMI
version 2.0 support all health states, including normal, warning, and critical.
NOTE: Dell PowerEdge x 8 xx systems support IPMI version 1.5 and Dell x 9 xx and
later systems support IPMI version 2.0 or later.