OpenManage Enterprise 4.0.x User's Guide

The OpenManage Enterprise dashboard

Apart from your first-time login, the Dashboard is the first screen that you see after every login to OpenManage Enterprise. To open the Dashboard from any screen of OpenManage Enterprise, click the dashboard symbol in the upper-left corner or click Home. The dashboard displays the device health, firmware or driver compliance, and other aspects of devices and device groups in your data center environment using real-time monitoring data.

Any available console updates are also displayed on the Dashboard. You can upgrade the OpenManage Enterprise version immediately, or set OpenManage Enterprise to remind you later.

By default, when you start the application the first time, the Dashboard screen appears empty. Add devices to OpenManage Enterprise so that they can be monitored and displayed on the dashboard. To add devices, see Discovering devices and Organize devices into groups.

• Managing device firmware and drivers
• Managing alerts
• Discovering devices
• Create a report
• System configuration

By default, the Hardware Health section displays a Donut chart that indicates the current health of all the monitored devices. Click sections of the Donut chart to view information about devices with respective health statuses.

Device alerts that are displayed in by the donut in the Alerts section are based on the device groups that are selected. See Managing alerts. The total number of alerts in the Donut chart varies based on the setting to view the unacknowledged alerts. By default, only the unacknowledged alerts are displayed. See Customize the alert display. To view alerts under each category, click the respective color bands. In the Alerts dialog box, the Critical section lists the alerts in critical status. To view all the generated alerts, click All. The SOURCE NAME column indicates the device that generated the alert. Click the name to view and configure device properties. See View and configure individual devices.

For more information about a Donut chart, see Doughnut charts and Device health statuses. To view the summary of devices in a different device group monitored by OpenManage Enterprise, select from the Device Groups drop-down menu. To view the All Devices screen device list by health state:

• Click the color band that is associated with a health category.
• Click the respective health status symbol next to a Donut chart.

The Widgets section provides a summary of some of the key features of OpenManage Enterprise. To view a summary under each category, click the Widget title.

• Warranty displays the number of devices whose warranty is about to expire. The number is based on the Warranty Settings. If the user opts for expire warranty notification, then the number of devices whose warranty is expired is shown. Otherwise, the number of expiring soon or the active warranty count is shown. Click to view more information in the Warranty dialog box. For information about managing device warranty, see Managing device warranty. Pause the pointer over the Warranty section to read definitions about the symbols used in the section.
• Firmware/Drivers displays the status of firmware or driver compliance of the device baselines that are created on OpenManage Enterprise. If available, the Critical and Warning firmware or driver baselines are listed here.
  • For more information about Rollup Health status, see the Managing The Rollup Health Status By Using iDRAC On The Dell 14th Generation And Later PowerEdge Servers technical white paper on the Dell TechCenter.
  • Click to view more information in the Firmware/Driver Compliance screen.
  • For information about updating a firmware, creating a firmware catalog, creating a firmware baseline, and generating a baseline compliance report, see Managing device firmware and drivers.
• Configuration displays the rollup status of configuration compliance baselines that are created on OpenManage Enterprise. If available, the Critical and Warning configuration baselines are listed. See Manage compliance templates.
• Resource Utilization displays the CPU and the memory utilization by the appliance. The following color-coded checks are used to indicate the various stages of utilization:
  • Green: A less than 80% utilization of the resource
  • Yellow: A greater than 80% but less than 95% utilization of the resource
  • Red: A greater than 95% utilization of the resource
  NOTE: The color-coded vertical bar on the left of the widget represents the worst-case rollup of resource utilization.