Dell OpenManage Enterprise 4.7 User's Guide
- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Revision history
- Preface
- Overview
- Deployment
- Host system requirements
- Deployment prerequisites
- Deployment best practices
- Deploy in VMware vSphere
- Deploy in Microsoft Hyper-V
- Deploy in KVM
- Deploy OpenManage Enterprise on Nutanix AHV
- Deploy OpenManage Enterprise on Proxmox Virtual Environment
- Deploy OpenManage Enterprise in Proxmox VE using CLI
- Deploy OpenManage Enterprise on OpenShift
- Deploy programmatically
- Configure the system using the TUI
- Getting started
- System configuration
- Configure network settings
- Manage roles and privileges
- Manage users and scopes
- Add local users
- Edit OpenManage Enterprise user properties
- Reset local user credentials and notify
- Enable OpenManage Enterprise users
- Disable OpenManage Enterprise users
- Delete OpenManage Enterprise users
- Import Active Directory and LDAP groups
- Transfer of ownership of user entities
- Import user accounts
- Export user accounts
- Ending user sessions
- Directory services integration
- Login using OIDC providers
- Security certificates
- Manage console settings
- Set the login security properties
- Customize the alert display
- Configure alert settings
- Manage incoming alerts
- Manage warranty settings
- Configure remote commands and scripts
- OpenManage Mobile settings
- Enable or disable alert notifications for OpenManage Mobile
- Enable or disable OpenManage Mobile subscribers
- Delete an OpenManage Mobile subscriber
- View the alert notification service status
- Notification service status
- View information about OpenManage Mobile subscribers
- OpenManage Mobile subscriber information
- Troubleshooting OpenManage Mobile
- Discovering devices
- Server-initiated discovery
- Creating and managing device discovery jobs
- Create a device discovery job
- Discover multiple devices by .csv import
- Global exclusion of ranges
- Specify a discovery mode for server discovery
- Create a custom discovery job for devices
- Specify discovery mode for chassis discovery
- Create a custom discovery job for the chassis
- Specify discovery mode for Dell storage discovery
- Specify discovery mode for network switch discovery
- Create a custom discovery job for HTTPS storage devices
- Create a custom discovery job for SSH devices
- Create a custom discovery job for SNMP devices
- Specify discovery mode for CDU discovery
- Specify discovery mode for IRC discovery
- Specify the discovery mode for multiple discovery jobs
- View device discovery job details
- Edit a device discovery job
- Run a device discovery job
- Stop a device discovery job
- Delete a device discovery job
- Create a device discovery job
- Onboarding devices
- Protocol support matrix for device discovery and alert reception
- Managing devices and device groups
- Create and manage custom groups
- Create a custom static or query group
- Create a static device group
- Create a query device group
- Edit a static group
- Edit a query group
- Rename a static or query group
- Delete a static or query device group
- Clone a static or query group
- Add devices to a new group
- Add devices to existing group
- Refresh health on group
- View devices associated with system and workload profiles
- Manage physical groups
- Rack management
- Add or edit device details for power-monitored devices
- Create physical groups in OpenManage Enterprise
- Automatically create physical hierarchy
- View physical groups and the hierarchies
- View devices added in rack
- View rack group information
- Manage rack power operations
- Edit physical groups
- Manage physical groups
- Delete physical group
- Rearrange rack slot of devices
- Move device to different rack
- Remove device from rack
- Power Distribution Unit
- Associate PDU and UPS to rack
- View PDU and UPS associated to rack
- Remove PDU and UPS devices
- All Devices screen device list
- All Devices screen actions
- Delete devices from OpenManage Enterprise
- Exclude devices from OpenManage Enterprise
- Run inventory on devices
- Update individual device firmware and drivers
- Refresh the device health of a device group
- Refresh health on devices
- Roll back an individual device's firmware version
- Export the single device inventory
- Performing more actions on chassis and servers
- Hardware information displayed for MX7000 chassis
- Export data
- View and configure individual devices
- View device inventory
- Run and download diagnostic reports
- Extract and download a Services report
- Managing individual device hardware logs
- Run remote commands on managed devices
- Launch the iDRAC device management application
- Launch the virtual console
- Launch SmartFabric Manager
- Attaching iDRAC virtual media
- Refresh device inventory of a single device
- View installed and available licenses on a device
- Create and manage custom groups
- Managing device inventory
- Managing device firmware and drivers
- Managing device deployment templates
- Create a deployment template from a reference device
- Create a deployment template by importing a template file
- View a deployment template information
- Edit a server deployment template
- Edit a chassis deployment template
- Edit IOA deployment template
- Edit network properties of a deployment template
- Deploy device deployment templates
- Deploy IOA deployment templates
- Clone deployment templates
- Export a deployment template
- Delete deployment templates
- Auto deploy device configuration before discovery
- Overview of stateless deployment
- Define networks
- Edit or delete a configured network
- Export VLAN definitions
- Import network definitions
- Managing device warranty
- Managing alerts
- Managing MIB files
- Configuring profiles
- Configuration compliance
- Managing licenses
- Export data from OpenManage Enterprise to Kafka
- Using jobs for device control
- Monitoring audit logs
- Monitoring reports
- Manage the Power Management features
- Monitor and manage devices for power
- Overview
- View devices and groups added for power management and monitoring
- View details of Unmonitored Devices
- Policies
- Manage data center during power reduction
- View racks of physical groups
- Compare server usage metrics
- Analyze multivariate metrics using parallel coordinates
- Set preferences
- View metrics, and monitor devices and groups history
- Monitor Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
- Monitor Power Supply Unit (PSU)
- Monitor Central Processing Unit (CPU)
- Thresholds
- Create alert thresholds
- View alert thresholds
- Edit alert thresholds
- Delete alert thresholds
- AI-powered server management using the OpenManage Enterprise MCP server
- Back up or restore
- Updating the console and plugins
- Managing plugins
- Troubleshooting
- Text User Interface
- Scale and performance troubleshooting
- Devices
- Discovery
- Discovery succeeds but device actions fail later
- Device rediscovery running for a long time after deleting iDRAC service account
- Troubleshooting power shelf onboarding failures
- Troubleshooting NVIDIA Switches onboarding failures
- SONiC switch discovery or inventory fails
- Onboarding job fails with error CUSR6004
- Devices disappear from inventory during large‑scale re‑discovery.
- Alerts
- Configurations
- Monitor
- Jobs
- OpenManage Enterprise MCP server
- Plugins
- Application Settings
- Upgrade
- Troubleshooting the Power Management features
- The Power Management feature Frequently asked questions
- Appendix
- Glossary
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Revision history
The following table shows the revision history of this document:
| Revision | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| A00 | June 2026 | Initial release. |
| A00 | July 2026 | Added prerequisite to Assign a web server certificate to an appliance section to ensure that the certificate has Server Authentication as Extended Key Usage (EKU) option. |
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