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Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise 3.9 User's Guide

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Onboarding devices

About this task

Onboarding enables servers to be managed, rather than just be monitored.

  • Onboarding tasks only support iDRAC and MX7000 chassis based devices that are not in managed state of proxied.
  • If administrator-level credentials are provided during discovery, the servers are onboarded (the device status is displayed as "managed" in the All Devices view).
  • If lower privileged credentials are provided during discovery, the servers are not onboarded (the status is displayed as "monitored" in the All Devices view).
  • If the console is also set as a trap receiver on the servers then their Onboarding status is indicated as "managed with alerts".
  • Error: Indicates an issue in onboarding the device.
  • Proxied: Available only for MX7000 chassis. Indicates that the device is discovered through an MX7000 chassis and not directly. For the supported and unsupported actions on the proxied sleds, see Supported and unsupported actions on 'Proxied' sleds.

If you want to onboard devices with a different user account apart from the account specified for discovery, or re-attempt onboarding because of a failure in onboarding during discovery, do the following:

NOTE
  • All devices that have been onboarded through this wizard remain onboarded through this user account and is not substituted by the discovery user account during future discoveries against these devices.
  • For the already discovered devices, if the SNMP trap destination is 'manually' set in iDRAC as OpenManage Enterprise, the alerts are received and processed by the appliance. However, the device's Managed State displayed on the All Devices page remains the same as its initial discovered state of 'Monitored,' 'Managed' or 'Managed with Alerts.'
  • The All Devices page displays the Managed State of all the onboarded chassis as "Managed" irrespective of which chassis user-role credentials were used at the time of onboarding. If the chassis was onboarded with credentials of a "read-only" user, then there may be a failure during update activities performed on chassis. Hence, It is recommended to onboard chassis with credentials of a chassis Administrator to perform all activities.
  • To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have necessary user privileges. See Role and scope-based access control in OpenManage Enterprise.

Steps

  1. From the OpenManage Enterprise menu, under Devices, click All Devices.
    A Donut chart indicates status of all devices in the working pane. See the Donut chart. The table lists the properties of devices selected along with their following onboarding status:
    • Error: Device cannot be onboarded. Try by logging in by using the recommended privileges. See Role and scope-based access control in OpenManage Enterprise.
    • Managed: Device successfully onboarded, and can be managed by the OpenManage Enterprise console.
    • Monitored: Device does not have management option (such as the one discovered by using SNMP).
    • Managed with alerts: Device is successfully onboarded, and the OpenManage Enterprise console has successfully registered its IP address with the device as a trap destination during discovery.
  2. In the working pane, select a check box corresponding to the device(s), click Discovery > Onboarding.
    Ensure that you select only the device types from the All Devices page that are supported for onboarding. You can search for suitable devices in the table by clicking Advanced Filters, and then select or enter onboarding status data in the filter box.
    NOTE All devices that are discovered are not supported for onboarding - iDRAC and MX7000 are supported. Any device that is selected that does not support onboarding, the onboarding option will not be available. Additionally, if selecting devices with the 'Across all pages' option the onboarding action will be available, but the onboarding job will not be created if any devices selected on the other pages does not support onboarding. This is due to device capabilities are only cached by the UI for those that are within the current view (limited to 25 devices at a time).
  3. In the Onboarding dialog box, enter the WS-Man credentials—username and password.
  4. In the Connection Settings section:
    1. In the Retries box, enter the number of repeated attempts that must be made to discover a server.
    2. In the Timeout box, enter the time after which a job must stop running.
      NOTE If the timeout value entered is greater than the current session expiry time, you are automatically logged out of OpenManage Enterprise. However, if the value is within the current session expiration timeout window, the session is continued and not logged out.
    3. In the Port box, enter the port number that the job must use to discover.
    4. Optional field. Select Enable Common Name (CN) check.
    5. Optional field. Select Enable Certificate Authority (CA) check and browse to the certificate file.
  5. Click Finish.
    NOTE The Enable trap reception from discovered check box is effective only for servers discovered by using their iDRAC interface. Selection is ineffective for other servers—such as those devices discovered by using OS discovery.

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