Dell EMC OpenManage Plug-in Version 3.2.0 For Nagios XI User’s Guide

Dell EMC Configuration Wizard

You can discover Dell EMC devices using the Dell EMC Configuration Wizard. This wizard takes you through a series of configuration steps where you provide appropriate input required to discover the hosts and associate them with their respective services. The Dell EMC plug-in validates the inputs at the end of each step before proceeding to the next step and displays appropriate message prompts or summary.

Dell EMC recommends that you discover a maximum of 255 devices at a time for a better user experience.

The devices are discovered either through SNMP or WSMan protocol or Redfish REST APIs. The monitoring protocols for the supported devices are as follows:

• Dell EMC Servers can be discovered using SNMP or WSMan protocol or Redfish. Redfish is the default protocol.
• Dell EMC Chassis can be discovered using WSMan protocol.

  Ensure that you only monitor Dell EMC Chassis using local user credentials.

• Dell EMC Storage and Dell EMC Network Switches can be discovered using SNMP protocol.
• MX7000 chassis and ME4 are discovered using REST protocol.

You can discover devices using any of the following:

• Auto-Discovery Jobs – Select an auto discovery job.
• Subnet – Subnet with mask.
• File – File Containing a list of device IP addresses or FQDNs.