OMA vs OME and other issues

Question

Hi, first off.....what is the difference between all these products?

I am getting an error when trying to log into OMA, I can access the web GUI usinghttps://hostname:1311, but am unsure what to type in for Hostname/IP address and username and password...

Second, DRAC works very well on servers so that is a server is frozen I can still reboot it / shut it down, etc. using DRAC, is there a way to do this for desktops? We have fairly new Optiplex desktops (790, 980, 990, 9010, etc.)

Any other Dell tools that would be useful?

How do I get phone support for these products?

Thanks

DELL-Rob C · Answer

Hi there,

In this forum, we know mostly about OME. So for OMSA login questions, best to post in the other general sys mgt forum with a post like: OMSA login question, or some such thing.

For Client, try the OMCI page, that is the instrumentation that is used on Opti. Maybe some of this can be scripted.

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1773.openmanage-client-instrumentation-omci.aspx

But I don't know of a console that does this today (reboot, etc.). Perhaps the Client whitepaper on the www.delltechcenter.com/ome website, combined with a script would enable you to define a custom OME task to do this(?) not sure.

For the difference between the products. We created a web page below to discuss the OM product set. There is also a OM 101 link on that page to discuss some of the products.

Basically:

1. OMSA is for 1:1 mgt

2. OME is for 1:n mgt

3. Repository Mgr is for customizing system update catalogs to your own defined level of compliance

4. OMCI is instrumentation used on Opti/Lati

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/1757.dell-openmanage-systems-management-tools.aspx

Thx

Rob

Dell OpenManage Essentials

OMA vs OME and other issues

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