Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise 3.9 User's Guide

Create customized device discovery jobs for servers

Use the Additional Settings dialog box to enter the details for the protocol with which you want to discover servers. The appropriate protocols are automatically pre-selected based on your initial inputs.

1. To Discover using WS-Man/Redfish (iDRAC, Server, and/or Chassis):
   1. In the Credentials section, enter a User Name and Password.
   2. In the Connection Settings section:
      • Retries field, enter the number of repeated attempts that must be made to discover a server. The default value is 3.
      • Connection Timeout field, enter the time after which a job must stop running. The default value is 60 seconds.
      • To check the WSMAN ping response from a target device, set the Service Check Timeout. By default the value is set as 1 second.
      • Change the Port number. By default, 443 is used to connect to the device. For supported port numbers, see Supported protocols and ports in OpenManage Enterprise
      • Select the Enable Common Name (CN) check box if the common name of device is same as the host name used to access the OpenManage Enterprise.
      • Select the Enable Certificate Authority (CA) check box, if needed.

      NOTE For in-band device discovery to be successful, make sure that the firewall on the target server allows Echo Request - ICMPv4-In and Echo Request - ICMPv6-In under Windows Firewall with Advanced Security > File and Printer Sharing.
2. To Discover using IPMI (non-Dell via OOB):
   1. In the Credentials section, enter a User Name and Password.
   2. In the Connection Settings section:
      • In the Retries field:
        • In the Retries field, enter the number of repeated attempts that must be made to discover a server.
        • In the Timeout field, enter the time after which a job must stop running.
        • Enter in the Port field to edit the port number. By default, 443 is used to connect to the device. For supported port numbers, see Supported protocols and ports in OpenManage Enterprise
        • Select the Enable Common Name (CN) check box if the common name of device is same as the host name used to access the OpenManage Enterprise.
        • Select the Enable Certificate Authority (CA) check box, if needed.
      • In the Timeout field, enter the time after which a job must stop running.
      • In the KgKey field, enter an appropriate value.
3. To Discover using SSH (Linux, Windows, Hyper-V):
   NOTE Only OpenSSH on Windows and Hyper-V is supported. Cygwin SSH is not supported.
   1. In the Credentials section, enter User Name and Password.
   2. In the Connection Settings section:
      • In the Retries field, enter the number of repeated attempts that must be made to discover a server.
      • In the Timeout field, enter the time after which a job must stop running.
      • Change the Port number. By default, 22 is used to connect to the device. For supported port numbers, see Supported protocols and ports in OpenManage Enterprise
      • Select the Verify the known Host key check box to validate host against known host keys.
        NOTE Known host keys are added via the /DeviceService/HostKeys REST API service. Please refer to the OpenManage Enterprise RESTful API Guide for more information on how to manage host keys.
      • Select the Use SUDO Option check box if sudo accounts are preferred.
        NOTE For sudo accounts to work, the server(s) /etc/sudoer file must be configured to use NOPASSWD.
4. To Discover using ESXi (VMware):
   1. In the Credentials section, enter a User Name and Password.
   2. In the Connection Settings section:
      • In the Retries field, enter the number of repeated attempts that must be made to discover a server.
      • In the Timeout field, enter the time after which a job must stop running.
      • Change the Port number. By default, 443 is used to connect to the device. For supported port numbers, see Supported protocols and ports in OpenManage Enterprise
      • Select the Enable Common Name (CN) check box if the common name of the device is the same as the host name used to access OpenManage Enterprise.
      • Select the Enable Certificate Authority (CA) check box, if needed.