Hi,

There are quite a few things which OME can do like discover your devices, alerts monitoring, remotely executing tasks, perform firmware updates, etc. There are a few whitepapers and videos published at http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1989.openmanage-essentials which should be of help for you.

Yes, in addition to those whitepapers and videos on delltechcenter.com/ome, there is a Getting Started Tutorial built into the product in the tutorial section.

If you are monitoring 12G/13G servers, you should discover the IP address of the iDRAC using WSMan.

If you are monitoring pre-12G servers, make sure OMSA is on the box and discover the IP of the host (not the iDRAC) using SNMP.

Hope this helps,

Rob

Thank you both for the reply, I also have some R710's that has no iDrac and I do have OMSA install on those and all of the others, because I wasn't sure.  So 12G's and up I don't need to install OMSA on it?

Yeah, so our default recommendation for 12G is to:

- not install OMSA

- just discover the iDrac IP address via WSMan only.

Then you should be fine.

Rob

Is there a license need to be added in order to get lifecycle controller, biso, updated and compare what's the latest version is? 

I've added a R720 Host, and when I add the IP for it, it finds it and place it under unknown, when I click on the IP it give me a device summary, just unclassified info, no service tag or anything.

it's a R720 with esxi 5.5, and it does not even show up under VMware ESX Servers.

Thanks for the help.

Hi,

Which protocol are you using to discover the ESXi, you will need to discover it using WSMAN. Also, to be able to use system update for ESXi, you need to discover the iDRAC and not the OS. Make sure you have provided the iDRAC IP. 

Also, do try to use dell troubleshooting tool to query the iDRAC using WSMAN and let us know the output.