OpenManage or Essentials or what?

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I am re-doing a R710 with fresh software. I intend to run HyperV with 2 VM's. I made drive C on the physical 120GB so it won't run out of space as Microsoft OS's do. I installed WS 2016 standard.

I am used to the apparently old version of OpenManage. It appears now there are two possibilities, OpenManage for Managed Node or OpenManage Essentials. I just want the hardware diagnostic features that older versions had and did not eat up a lot of disk space. Now I see "Essentials" requires over a GB and requires a bunch of software such as ASP.net, IIS, C++ runtime, etc. I don't want to fill up disk, just essential hardware diags on a stand-alone server. Further, now Openmanage Node has some cryptic popup messages about requiring a "HTTPS listener", is that IIS? When I select install listerner an an unreadable error message flashes.

To recap: I would like hardware diagnostics, including RAID, that is stand-alone and does not use up a huge amount of C drive on the physical. What should I use?

Daniel My · Accepted Answer

Hello

OpenManage Server Administrator (Managed Node) should be what you are looking for. I don't think it has built in diagnostics though. You can either use the diagnostics from the LifeCycle controller or you can download the Dell Online Diagnostics. The download is in the Diagnostics section of the R710 support page:

www.dell.com/support/home/product-support/product/poweredge-r710/drivers

OME is a management and monitoring station designed for use in large environments. It is a centralized management and monitoring station that receives information from agents like OMSA. OMSA is the local management and monitoring utility that you are looking for. You can find out more information on the https listener in the Remote Enablement section of the Server Administrator Installation Guide. It is not required unless you want to use that feature:

www.dell.com/support/home/product-support/product/dell-openmanage-server-administrator-8.5/manuals

Thanks

oregonbob · Answer

Thanks for the clarification. Usually 'Essentials' is the stripped-down bare-bones version of a product. Dell has strange naming of things.

theflash1932 · Answer

Usually 'Essentials' is the stripped-down bare-bones version of a product. Dell has strange naming of things. Not really: absolutely necessary; indispensablehttp://www.dictionary.com/browse/essential Indispensable (not barebones and incapable) when managing dozens of of servers in an environment - you wouldn't want to go server-to-server to check OMSA.

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OpenManage or Essentials or what?

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