OpenManage Enterprise 4.0.x User's Guide

Onboarding devices

Upon device discovery, iDRAC based PowerEdge servers and MX7000 chassis are automatically onboarded. Onboarding jobs can be used to update management credentials of devices when the device credentials differ from what was used during discovery. If internal iDRAC credential management is enabled and the iDRAC is eligible, the onboarding operation also creates an appliance-managed service account on the target.

1. Click Devices > All Devices.
   A Donut chart indicates the status of all devices in the working pane. See the Donut chart. The table lists the properties of devices that are selected along with their following onboarding status:

   • Error: The device cannot be onboarded. Try by logging in by using the recommended privileges. See Role and scope-based access.
   • Managed: The device has been successfully onboarded. The OpenManage Enterprise console can manage it.
   • Monitored: The device does not have management options. Devices that are discovered through SNMP may show this status.
   • Managed with alerts: The device is successfully onboarded. 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 devices, click Discovery > Onboarding.
   Ensure that you select only the device types from the All Devices screen that are supported for onboarding. You can search for 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 is not available. If you choose devices using the Across all pages option, the onboarding action is accessible. However, if any devices that are selected on other pages lack onboarding support, the onboarding job is not generated. This limitation arises from the UI caching the device capabilities, limited to the current view (up 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 the discovered check box is effective only for servers that are discovered by using their iDRAC interface. Trap reception does not impact other servers like operating system-discovered servers.