Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Version 3.3.1 User's Guide

NOTE: To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary user privileges. See Role-based OpenManage Enterprise user privileges.

By clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Application Settings > Console Preferences, you can set the default properties of the OpenManage Enterprise GUI. For example, default time after which a device health is automatically checked and updated on the dashboard, and preferred settings used for discovering a device.

• To set the maximum number of rows (reports) that you can view on OpenManage Enterprise:
  1. Expand Report Settings.
  2. Enter a number in the Reports row limit box. Maximum rows permitted = 2,000,000,000.
  3. Click Apply. A job is run and the setting is applied.
• To set the time after which the health of devices must be automatically monitored and updated on the OpenManage Enterprise Dashboard:
  1. Expand Device Health.
  2. Enter the frequency at which the device health must be recorded and data stored.
  3. Select:
     • Last Known: Display the latest recorded device health when the power connection was lost.
     • Unknown: Display the latest recorded device health when the device status moved to 'unknown'. A device becomes unknown to OpenManage Enterprise when the connection with iDRAC is lost and the device is not anymore monitored by OpenManage Enterprise.
  4. Click Apply to save the changes to the settings or click Discard to reset the settings to default attributes.
• Expand Discovery Setting to set the device naming used by the OpenManage enterprise to identify the discovered iDRACs and other devices using the Server Device Naming and the General Device Naming settings.

  NOTE: The device naming choices in the General Device Naming and the Server Device Naming are independent of each other and they do not affect each other.

  1. General Device Naming applies to all the discovered devices other than the iDRACs. Select from one of the following naming modes:
     • DNS to use the DNS name.
     • Instrumentation (NetBIOS) to use the NetBIOS name.

     NOTE: The default setting for General Device Naming is DNS.

     NOTE: If any of the discovered devices do not have the DNS name or the NetBIOS name to satisfy the setting, then the appliance identifies such devices with their IP addresses.

     NOTE: When the Instrumentation(NetBios) option is selected in General Device Naming, for chassis devices the Chassis name is displayed as the device name entry on the All Devices page.

  2. Server Device Naming applies to iDRACs only. Select from one of the following naming modes for the discovered iDRACs :
     • iDRAC Hostname to use the iDRAC hostname.
     • System Hostname to use the system hostname.

       NOTE: The default naming preference for iDRAC devices is the System Hostname .

       NOTE: If any of the iDRACs do not have the iDRAC hostname or the System hostname to satisfy the setting, then the appliance identifies such iDRACs using their IP addresses.

  3. To specify the invalid device hostnames and the common MAC addresses expand the Advance Settings:
     • Enter one or more invalid hostnames separated by a comma in Invalid Device Hostname. By default, a list of invalid device hostname is populated.
     • Enter the common MAC addresses separated by a comma in Common MAC Addresses. By default, a list of common MAC addresses is populated.
  4. Click Apply to save the changes to the settings or click Discard to reset the settings to the default attributes, .
• Set the devices that must be displayed in the All Devices view.
  1. Expand All devices View Setting.
  2. From the Show unknown devices drop-down menu, select:
     • False: On the Dashboard page, do not display the unknown devices in the list of all devices and device groups.
     • True: Display the unknown devices in the list.
  3. Click Apply.
  4. To reset the settings to default attributes, click Discard.
• In the SMB Setting section, select the Server Message Block (SMB) version that must be used for network communication. The default selection is Disable V1 (meaning, SMBv1 is disabled). Select Enable V1 to enable SMBv1.

  NOTE: Ensure to enable SMBv1 in the SMB Settings before you begin any tasks which need communication with any chassis or the PowerEdge YX2X and YX3X servers that have iDRAC version 2.50.50.50 and earlier. See Manage Console preferences and Generic naming convention for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers for more information.

• To set the address of the user who is sending an email message:
  1. Expand Email Sender Settings.
  2. Enter a email address and click Apply.
• To set the trap forwarding format:
  1. Expand Trap Forwarding Format.
  2. To retain the trap data as-is, select Original Format. To normalize, select Normalized.
  3. Click Apply.