Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release User's Guide

By clicking OpenManage Enterprise > Application Settings > Console Preferences, you can set the default properties of the OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release GUI. For example, default time after which a device health is automatically checked and updated on the dashboard, and preferred settings used for discovering a device.

• To set the maximum number of rows (reports) that you can view on OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release:
  1. Expand Report Settings.
  2. Type a number in the Reports row limit box. Maximum rows permitted=1000.
  3. Click Apply. A job is run and the setting is applied.
• To set the time after which the health of devices must be automatically monitored and updated on the OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release Dashboard:
  1. Expand Device Health.
  2. Type the frequency at which the device health must be recorded and data stored.
  3. 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–Tech Release when the connection with iDRAC is lost and the device is not anymore monitored by OpenManage Enterprise–Tech Release.
  4. Click Apply.
  5. To reset the settings to default attributes, click Discard.
• To set the mode by using which the device must be discovered. For example, DNS name and hostname:
  1. Expand Discovery Setting.
  2. To use DNS settings for discovering a device, select the Prefer DNS check box. For NetBIOS, select the Prefer NetBIOS check box.
  3. To use the system hostname for discovering a device, select the Prefer System Hostname check box.
  4. To discover a device by using the system hostname through iDRAC, select the Prefer iDRAC Hostname check box.
  5. Expand Advance Settings:
     • Type one or more invalid hostname separated by a comma in Invalid Device Hostname. By default, a list of invalid device hostname is populated.
     • Type the common MAC addresses separated by a comma in Common MAC Addresses. By default, a list of common MAC addresses is populated.
  6. Click Apply.
  7. To reset the settings to default attributes, click Discard.
• Set the devices that must be displayed in the All Devices view.
  1. Expand All devices View Setting.
  2. From the Show unknown devices drop-down menu, select:
     • False: On the Dashboard page, do not display the unknown devices in the list of all devices and device groups.
     • True: Display the unknown devices in the list.
  3. Click Apply.
  4. To reset the settings to default attributes, click Discard.
• In the SMB Setting section, select the Server Message Block (SMB) version that must be used for network communication. By default, Version2 (SMBv3) is enabled.