Software Inventory in 1.1

Hi Paul,

Is this in the System Update screen under the "Issues and Resolutions" tab?

If you are wanting to patch via the iDrac, you should discover it via the WSMan protocol.

If you just want inventory like you did in 1.0.1, you can use SNMP to discover.

Do you see inventory on the "Device Inventory" page when you click on the device in the tree?

thx!

Rob

Paul,

I don't have the GUI in front of me now, but I think there is a radio button to default patching to InBand OMSA or iDrac Out of band.  

What is it set to now?  If it is set to OMSA, I think it should show the same as in OME 1.0.1.

Is the inventory still ok under the device tree page?

Rob

Good Afternoon Rob,

I would just like to do the inventory as before with the SNMP whiched seemed to work , but now it is only showing the server names under the Issues and Resolutions tab. The servers are no where to be seen in the Complient or Non-Complient tabs

Paul

Paul,

Is both Server (In-band) and RAC device discovered and inventoried ? In "Manage -> Devices" page do you see "Software Inventory" for this server ?

You can also refer to "Tutorials -> Upgrade to OpenManage Essentials 1.1" to understand the changes between 1.0.1 and 1.1.

Thanks,

Raj Shresta

Thanks for the question.

WSMan is a protocol that is used to manage servers.

You can choose to discover and inventory your systems using an agent (i.e., OMSA + SNMP/WMI) or agent-free (WSMan).

It's just a matter of preference.  If you would like to use agent-free, you can discover your systems and use WSMan in the discovery wizard.  You'll need a cert (or check the boxes to override).

If you use OMSA and SNMP/WMI, then you can discover the server and you are good to go.

Let me know what kind of setup you are using and we can go from there.

thanks much,

Rob

I have same issue.  Can anyone help.?  This is not resolved by the responses I see.  What is WS-MAN and how do I use it to inventory/manage my m610 blades?

Hi Rob and thanks for the quick reply.

I'm new  to Dell Essentials.  Finally updating from the old Dell IT Assistant which I was more knowledgeable of.  I've installed Dell Essentials 1.1 and imported the latest catalog.

Just testing right now on one of our M610 blades.  The blade is a baremtetal install of Citrix Xenserver 6.1 where I configured SNMP using the Idrac web management to send traps to my new OME server.  I was successful with the discovery using snmp just seeing this message about using WS-Man

My plan is to eventually monitor all our servers, various generations of Dell running various versions of OMSA on Win 2003/2008 platforms.

Got it.

Coming from ITA, it looks like you are going the right direction.  Using OMSA on the OS (and SNMP/WMI) will get you plenty of inventory.

You may experiment with one of your servers and try to discover it via WSMan to see if it provides a simpler way to manage and monitor your servers that are 11G or 12G.

The www.delltechcenter.com/ome page has some good whitepapers to give you more info.  This one (below) may provide a bit of info on patching via WSMan.  But with multi-generational servers, you may be ok to do it the "ITA-way" and move to WSMan as you get more 11G/12G devices online.

Thanks!

Rob

en.community.dell.com/.../20234619.aspx

p.s. The Dell Troubleshooting tool (installed on the OME desktop) is a great tool for testing device connectivity, etc.  Give it a look.

At this point I just want to run a discovery/inventory of one of m610 blades, compare the firmware/driver levels against the catalog and push out any required updates.  I do not run any OMSA software on a baremetal installation of citrix xenserver..  Is there a simple 1-2-3 process to perform this?

I think OMSA on Citrix is a supported config.  That should work.

If you don't use OMSA you can discover the iDrac via WSMan and get the data that way.  Patching either way will work though iDrac patching is only BIOS and FW (not drivers).  The www.delltechcenter.com/ome link should have the whitepapers on System Update.

Rob