Overview of OpenManage Integration with Microsoft Windows Admin Center
Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with Microsoft Windows Admin Center (OMIMSWAC) enables IT administrators to manage the PowerEdge servers as hosts, Microsoft Failover Clusters created with PowerEdge servers, and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) created by using the Dell EMC Solution for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI (Storage Space Direct Ready Nodes or AX nodes). OMIMSWAC simplifies the tasks of IT administrators by remotely managing the PowerEdge servers and clusters throughout their life cycle. For more information about the features and benefits of OMIMSWAC, see the documentation at
Dell.com/OpenManageManuals.
Key features of OMIMSWAC
OMIMSWAC provides a simplified solution to IT administrators to efficiently manage the following:
Dell EMC PowerEdge servers running on supported Windows Operating Systems.
Azure Stack HCI clusters based on AX nodes or Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes from Dell EMC.
Microsoft failover clusters created with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
View overall Health, Hardware inventory, and iDRAC inventory of nodes including component-level information of all supported Dell EMC platforms.
Provides Update Compliance reports against Dell EMC verified update catalogs and notifications for new catalog versions.
Support for different baselines in OMIMSWAC when connected to the Internet:
Dell EMC Enterprise Catalog for PowerEdge Servers and clusters containing PowerEdge servers.
Dell EMC Azure Stack HCI Solution Catalog for Dell EMC Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI.
Dell EMC MX Solution Catalog for PowerEdge MX Modular.
Support for local baselines created using Dell EMC Repository Manager (DRM).
Update PowerEdge Servers against baseline – BIOS, driver, firmware, and/or system management applications.
Cluster-Aware Updating against validated baseline (BIOS, driver, firmware, and/or system management applications) for PowerEdge server-based Failover cluster and Dell EMC Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI.
View iDRAC information of PowerEdge servers. For out-of-band management, you can directly launch the iDRAC console from Windows Admin Center.
Availability of OMIMSWAC extension and documentation localized in English, French, German, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese languages.
Revision history
Date
Document revision
Description of changes
August 2020
A00
Initial release for OMIMSWAC 1.1.1
January 2021
A01
Added support for Windows Admin Center 2009 GA.
Target nodes running Windows Server Core OS are not supported.
New in this release
Release 1.1.1
Support for Microsoft Windows Admin Center version 2007 GA and 2009 GA.
Support for PowerEdge XE2420 Edge server with iDRAC firmware 4.00.129.00 or later.
Fixes and Enhancements:
You can access OMIMSWAC from the Windows Admin Center (WAC) console after you log in to the WAC using gateway user credentials without admin privileges.
In previous release, access to OMIMSWAC from the WAC console was denied if you logged into the WAC using gateway user credentials without admin privileges.
Allows OMIMSWAC to retrieve inventory information for clusters connected using Single-Sign-on.
In previous release, retrieving inventory information failed when a cluster was connected by using Single Sign-on authentication and WAC became unresponsive.
Allows generating compliance report for target nodes or clusters connected using a password that contains certain special characters.
In previous release, compliance generation failed when a server or cluster was connected using a password that contains special characters such as double-quote ("), grave accent (`), and semi-colon (;).
Reset of
CauClusterRole parameter to allow the self-updating functionality of the specified cluster after the Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) operation is complete.
Release 1.1.0
Added support for Dell EMC Online Catalogs:
Dell EMC Enterprise Catalog for PowerEdge Servers and clusters containing PowerEdge servers.
Dell EMC Azure Stack HCI Solution Catalog for Dell EMC Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI.
Dell EMC MX Solution Catalog for PowerEdge MX Modular.
Ability to perform Server update including selective component updates.
Ability to perform Cluster-Aware Updating against validated baseline (BIOS, driver, firmware, and system management applications) on the following.
PowerEdge server-based Failover cluster
Dell EMC Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
NOTE: For the Cluster-Aware Updating feature, a premium license must be installed on each node in a cluster.
To locate physical disks or to identify failed physical disks, provision to blink and unblink the physical disks Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) is provided.
Support for newer platforms:
Platforms based on AX nodes—Dell EMC Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI nodes: AX-640, AX-6515, and AX-740xd.
Platforms based on Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes from Dell EMC—Dell EMC Solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI: R440, R640, R740xd, and R740xd2.
Support for Microsoft Windows Admin Center version 1910.2.
Ability to monitor health and inventory of Accelerators (GPU) with latest iDRAC9 based PowerEdge Servers.
User interface enhancements for Intel Persistent Memory Health monitoring and Inventory.
Improvements in Update Compliance performance.
Correlation between Storage Controllers and Physical Disks to view the associated disks.
Ability to refresh the health, inventory, and iDRAC information of the managed target nodes to ensure that displayed inventory information is the latest.
Usability enhancement by downloading DSU and IC automatically required for components update.
Ability to download catalog, DSU, and IC utilities from the Internet using proxy settings to generate compliance report.
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