Set and manage console preferences such as backup and restore settings, report settings, device discovery and health monitoring frequency, and device naming. Click
Application Settings > Console Preferences to set the default console settings.
NOTE:To perform any tasks on OpenManage Enterprise, you must have the necessary user privileges. See
Role and scope-based access.
The following options are available:
Configure Backup and Restore settings
Expand
Backup/Restore settings to set
Backup/Restoration Timeout (Max: 120 minutes) and
Max Number of Backups (Range: 2-20). When the user crosses the
Max Number of Backups the system will automatically replace the earlier backup with the latest one.
Click
Apply to save the changes or click
Discard to reset the settings to the default attributes.
Customize report rows limit
To set the maximum number of rows that you can view on OpenManage Enterprise reports:
Expand
Report Settings.
Enter a number in the
Reports row limit box. The default limit is 1,000 rows, however, the maximum rows permitted are 2,000,000,000.
Click
Apply.
Automate device health monitoring frequency
To set the time after which the health of the devices are automatically monitored and updated on the OpenManage Enterprise Dashboard:
Expand
Device Health.
Enter the frequency at which the device health is recorded and the data that is stored.
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 OpenManage Enterprise does not monitor the device anymore.
Click
Apply to save the changes to the settings or click
Discard to reset the settings to default attributes.
Set device names for easy identification
Expand the
Discovery Setting to set the device naming used by the OpenManage enterprise to identify the discovered iDRACs and other devices using the
General Device Naming and the
Server 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.
ICMP Ping affects the discovered devices while using the
Multiple option as the Device Type while creating a Discovery job:
Enable check box is selected by default. Clear to allow the appliance to pursue discovery without an initial ICMP ping.
In the
Retries box, specify the number of ICMP ping attempts by the appliance on the target devices. By default, this is set as 3 attempts.
In the
Timeout
box, specify the duration that the appliance must wait for a response before the next attempt. By default, this is 30 seconds.
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.
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.
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 screen.
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 .
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.
To specify the invalid device hostnames and the common MAC addresses expand the
Advance Settings
Enter one or more invalid hostnames that are 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.
Click
Apply to save the changes to the settings or click
Discard to reset the settings to the default attributes.
Choose between automatic or manual server-initiated discovery
In
Server Initiated Discovery, select one of the following discovery-approval policies:
Automatic: To allow servers with iDRAC Firmware version 4.00.00.00, which are on the same network as the console, to be discovered automatically by the console.
Manual: For the servers to be discovered by the user manually.
Click
Apply to save the changes or click
Discard to reset the settings to the default attributes.
MX7000 Onboarding Preferences
In
MX7000 Onboarding Preferences: Specify one of the following alert-forwarding behaviors on MX7000 chassis when they are on-boarded:
Receive All Alerts
Receive 'Chassis' category alerts only.
Manage appliance access control
Appliance Access control allows users to select whether managed devices access the appliance's internal share using the IP or FQDN:
IP [default]: Requires all communication to happen using IP address.
FQDN
: Allows iDRACs to communicate with appliances in an environment where access is controlled via Domain Naming Services or routing policies, such as when the appliance is part of a software-defined network.
NOTE:
The FQDN option cannot be selected unless a DNS hostname and domain name are specified for the appliance; they must be set
via the TUI tool.
Windows driver updates are not supported on devices managed via FQDN.
Built-in Appliance Share
In
Built-in Appliance Share, select one of the following external network share options that the appliance must access to complete operations such as updating of the device firmware and/or drivers, extraction, and deployment of templates and profiles, and for downloading of the diagnostic and technical support reports:
NOTE:The share type or the credentials of an active network share cannot be changed if the appliance tasks are using that network share.
CIFS v2(Default): To enable SMBv2.
NOTE: On OpenManage Enterprise 4.0 and later, SMBv1 is not a supported protocol for accessing the built-in appliance share.
Table 1. Minimum firmware version required for SMBv2 supportThis table shows the minimum firmware version required for SMBv2 support
Device Type
Minimum FW version
PowerEdge VRTX chassis
3.21
PowerEdge FX2 and FX2s sleds
2.21
iDRAC7, iDRAC8 and iDRAC9
All versions
HTTPS: To disable the default CIFS and to enable HTTPS.
Device operations using HTTPS may fail on PowerEdge servers with older iDRAC firmware versions that do not support HTTPS. See
Firmware and DSU requirements for HTTPS.
When the internal share uses HTTPS then template creation, template deployment, Boot to Network ISO, and firmware updating are not supported on FX2, and VRTX chassis.
The credentials to the HTTPS share are automatically rotated every 6 hours.
Configure the sender's email address for outgoing messages
Expand the
Email Sender Settings to set the address of the user who is sending an email message:
Enter an email address in the
Sender Email ID box.
Click
Apply to save the changes or click
Discard to reset the settings to the default attributes.
Configure trap forwarding format
Expand
Trap Forwarding Format to set the trap forwarding format—
Select one of the following options.
Original Format (Valid for SNMP traps only): To retain the trap data as-is.
Normalized (Valid for all events): To normalize the trap data. When the Trap-forwarding format is set to 'Normalized,' the receiving agent such as the Syslog receives a tag containing the device IP from which the alert was forwarded.
NOTE:To forward internal alerts, select
Normalized (Valid for all events). By default
Original Format (Valid for SNMP traps only) is selected that does not forward internal alerts via SNMP trap forwarding.
Click
Apply to save the changes or click
Discard to reset the settings to the default attributes.
iDRAC vConsole Settings
Expand
iDRAC vConsole Settings to set
Maximum Allowed Sessions (Max: 10)
Click
Apply to save the changes or click
Discard to reset the settings to the default attributes.
Alert Correlation Settings
In
Alert Correlation Settings: This feature considers correlating alerts from a managed or monitored device. When enabled, an internal correlation task correlates any outstanding Critical or Warning alerts to the corresponding Informational alert. While there is no visible difference on the UI, the API (/api/AlertService/Actions/AlertService.GetCorrelatedAlerts) can be used to get the last correlated alerts.
NOTE:Enable Alert Correlation is disabled by default.
Interval (minutes)can be set at 3 minutes minimum or 60 minutes maximum.
NOTE:The default value is 3 minutes.
Click
Apply to save the changes or click
Discard to reset the settings to the default attributes.
Power Manager metric collection settings
In
Metrics Collection Settings: To set the frequency of the Power Manager extension data maintenance and purging do the following:
In the
Data purge interval box, enter the frequency to delete the Power Manager data. You can enter values within 30 to 365 days.
Click
Apply to save changes or click
Discard to reset the settings to the default attributes.
Configure iDRAC password management
iDRAC Password Management feature enables the management of credentials for supported iDRACs either internally by OME (if the feature is installed during initial-onboarding) or externally via CyberArk integration to perform various device management operations. Expand iDRAC Password Management to configure the preferred management solution. When password management is enabled, it applies to all eligible iDRACs, resulting in password rotation for each of them.
NOTE:
To avoid performance issues in a scaled environment, it is recommended to schedule iDRAC password rotation tasks with the longest interval possible.
When changing password management/rotation settings on the appliance or CyberArk, all saved discovery jobs are triggered to ensure the eligible devices have the appropriate credentials.