Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release User's Guide

Creating customized device discovery job protocol for servers–Additional Settings for Discovery Protocols

1. Select the Enable WSMAN check box to enable the use of WS-Man commands to discover servers.
2. Type user name and password of the server to be detected.
3. Expand Advanced Settings:
   1. In the Retries box, type the number of repeated attempts that must be made to discover a server.
   2. In the Timeout box, type the time after which a job must stop running.
   3. Type in the Port box to edit the port number. By default, 443 is used to connect to the device. For supported port numbers, see Supported protocols and ports in OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release.
      • Generate Trusted key: Disabled by default. Select to generate a trusted device key for communicating with devices.

        NOTE: First time, a user must generate the trust key by using the REST API, only after which this option can be used. This key is generated per device and enables a trust relationship with the managed device.

   4. Select the Enable Common Name (CN) check check box if the common name of device is same as the host name used to access the OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release.
   5. Select the Enable Certificate Authority (CA) check check box.
4. Select one of the following check boxes to enable discovering by using these protocols. Type the corresponding device credentials:
   • Enable SNMP: For discovering SNMP-compatible devices.
   • Enable RedFish: For discovering servers.
   • Enable IPMI: For discovering servers.
   • Enable SSH: For discovering Linux servers.
   • Enable VMware: For discovering the ESXi hosts.
5. Click Finish.
6. Complete the tasks in Creating a device discovery job.