Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise 3.9 User's Guide

OpenManage Enterprise Advanced or Advanced+ license

NOTE Installing and using OpenManage Enterprise does not require the OpenManage Enterprise Advanced or OpenManage Enterprise Advanced+ license. However, the OpenManage Enterprise Advanced or Advanced+ license is needed for key automation features (e.g. bare metal server deployment and cloning, deploying automatically with Service Tags or Node IDs, Power Manager plugin) as well as for advanced configuration features (e.g. enforcing configuration compliance, IOA provisioning and VLAN management, profile management). In addition, you need the OpenManage Advanced+ license to enable plugins for partner integrations (e.g. Plugin for VMware vCenter). (Note that the OpenManage Advanced+ license contains all the features of OpenManage Advanced license also.)

The OpenManage Enterprise Advanced or Advanced+ license is a perpetual license that is valid for the life of a server, and can be bound to the Service Tag of only one server at a time. OpenManage Enterprise provides a built-in report to view the list of devices and their licenses. Select OpenManage Enterprise > Monitor > Reports > License Report, and then click Run. See Run reports.

NOTE Enabling the server configuration management feature in OpenManage Enterprise does not require any separate license. If the OpenManage Enterprise Advanced or Advanced+license is installed on a target server, you can use the server configuration management feature on that server.

OpenManage Enterprise Advanced or Advanced+ license—Supported servers

You can deploy the OpenManage Enterprise Advanced or Advanced+ license on the following PowerEdge servers:

YX3X servers having the iDRAC8 2.50.50.50 or later firmware versions. The YX3X firmware versions are backward compatible and are installable on YX2X hardware. See PowerEdge server naming conventions. See PowerEdge server naming conventions.
YX4X servers having the iDRAC9 3.10.10.10 or later firmware versions. See PowerEdge server naming conventions

Purchase OpenManage Enterprise Advanced or Advanced+ license

You can purchase the OpenManage Enterprise Advanced or Advanced+license when you purchase a server or by contacting your sales representative. You can download the purchased license from the Software License Management Portal at Dell.com/support/retail/lkm.

Verify license information

OpenManage Enterprise provides a built-in report to view the list of devices monitored by OpenManage Enterprise, and their licenses. Click OpenManage Enterprise > Monitor > Reports > License Report. Click Run. See Run reports.

You can verify if the OpenManage Enterprise Advanced or Advanced+ license is installed on a server by:

On all pages of OpenManage Enterprise, in the upper-right corner, click the i symbol, and then click Licenses.
In the Licenses dialog box, read through the message and click appropriate links to view and download OpenManage Enterprise related open-source files, or other open-source licenses.

License-based features in OpenManage Enterprise

The OpenManage Enterprise Advanced or Advanced+ license is required to use the following features of OpenManage Enterprise:

Bare metal server deployment and cloning
Deploy automatically with service tag or node IDs
Editable chassis templates
Power Manager plugin
Monitor and enforce configuration compliance
Virtual address management and stateless provisioning
IOA provisioning and VLAN management
MX platforms profile management
Boot to ISO
Server configuration deployment
Server configuration compliance baseline creation and remediation.

NOTE

To access features of the OpenManage Enterprise such as the Virtual Console Support function, which depends on the iDRAC, you would need the iDRAC enterprise license. For more details, see the iDRAC documentation available on the support site.
The OpenManage Advanced+ license contains all the features of OpenManage Advanced license

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