- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- About Administration Console
- Register new vCenter server
- Register vCenter server by non-administrator user
- Required privileges for non-administrator users
- Assign Dell privileges to existing role
- Update SSL certificates for registered vCenter servers
- Modify vCenter login credentials
- Unregister OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter
- Upload license to Administration Portal
- Manage the OMIVV appliance
- Access the appliance management
- Restart OMIVV appliance
- Update OMIVV appliance and repository location
- Upgrade OMIVV appliance using RPM
- Upgrade OMIVV appliance using backup and restore
- Manage backup and restore
- Generate and download the troubleshooting bundle
- Set up HTTP proxy
- Set up Network Time Protocol servers
- Configure deployment mode
- Extended monitoring
- Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
- Upload HTTPS certificate
- Set up global alerts
- About OMIVV VM console
- Register new vCenter server
- Monitor hosts and chassis using dashboard
- Manage hosts using host credential profile
- Manage chassis using chassis credential profile
- Manage firmware and driver repositories using repository profile
- Capture baseline configuration using cluster profile
- Deployment
- View bare-metal servers
- Device discovery
- Auto discovery
- Enable or disable administrative accounts in iDRAC
- Manually configure PowerEdge servers for auto discovery
- Manual discovery of bare-metal servers
- Remove bare-metal servers
- Refresh bare-metal servers
- Purchase or renew iDRAC license
- Deployment
- System profile
- Create system profile
- Edit system profile
- View system profile
- Delete system profile
- ISO profile
- Create an ISO profile
- Edit an ISO profile
- View an ISO profile
- Delete an ISO profile
- Download custom Dell EMC ISO images
- Compliance
- Manage jobs
- Manage logs
- Manage OMIVV appliance settings
- Manage vCenter settings
- Chassis Management
- View Dell EMC chassis information
- View chassis inventory information
- Viewing hardware inventory information for chassis
- View firmware inventory information
- View management controller information
- View storage inventory information
- View warranty information
- View related host for chassis
- View related chassis information
- Manage PowerEdge MX chassis
- MX chassis firmware update
- Host Management
- Security roles and permissions
- Frequently Asked Questions-FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions-FAQ
- iDRAC license type and description are displayed incorrectly for non-compliant vSphere hosts
- Dell provider is not displayed as health update provider
- Host inventory or test connection fails due to invalid or unknown iDRAC IP.
- On running fix noncompliant vSphere hosts wizard, the status of a specific host is displayed as Unknown
- Dell privileges that are assigned while registering the OMIVV appliance are not removed after unregistering OMIVV
- How do I resolve error code 2000000 caused by VMware Certificate Authority-VMCA
- In Administration Console, Update Repository Path is not set to default path after I reset appliance to factory settings
- What should I do when a web communication error in the vCenter HTML-5 Client opens after changing the DNS settings in OMIVV
- Installation date be displays as 12-31-1969 for some of the firmware on the firmware page
- I am not seeing OpenManage Integration icon in HTML-5 Client even if registration of plug-in to vCenter was successful
- Why is DNS configuration settings restored to original settings after appliance reboot if appliance IP and DNS settings are overwritten with DHCP values
- Running firmware update may display an error message, The firmware repository file does not exist or is invalid.
- Using OMIVV to update the Intel network card with firmware version of 13.5.2 is not supported
- Using OMIVV to update Intel network card from 14.5 or 15.0 to 16.x fails due to staging requirement from DUP
- Why does Administration Portal display unreachable update repository location
- Why did system not enter maintenance mode when I performed one-to-many firmware update
- Chassis global health still healthy when some of power supply status has changed to critical
- Processor version is displayed as “Not Applicable” in processor view in system overview page
- Does OMIVV support vCenter in linked mode
- What are required port settings for OMIVV
- Password is not changed for user used for bare-metal discovery after successfully applying system profile that has same user with new changed credentials in iDRAC user list
- Unable to view new iDRAC version details listed on vCenter hosts and clusters page
- Can OMIVV support ESXi with lockdown mode enabled
- When I tried to use lockdown mode, it fails
- Attempting to deploy ESXi on server fails
- Auto discovered systems are displayed without model information in Deployment wizard
- NFS share is set up with ESXi ISO, but deployment fails with errors mounting share location
- How do I force remove OMIVV appliance from vCenter
- Entering a Password in the Backup Now Screen Receives an Error Message
- What should I do as firmware update failed
- What should I do as vCenter registration failed
- Performance during host credential profile test credentials is slow or unresponsive
- Does OMIVV support VMware vCenter server appliance
- A server may show as non-compliant with CSIOR status, "Unknown"
- Firmware level not updated when I have performed firmware update with Apply on Next reboot option and system was rebooted
- Host still displayed under chassis even after removing host from vCenter tree
- After backup and restore of OMIVV, alarm settings are not restored
- OS deployment fails when NPAR is enabled on a target node and disabled in System Profile
- Available OMIVV appliance version displays wrong information when the available version is lesser than the current version
- The 267027 exception is thrown while adding a 12G and later bare-metal server
- During deployment, system profile apply fails due to iDRAC error
- OMIVV RPM upgrade fails when proxy is configured with domain user authentication
- Unable to apply System Profile that has PCIe card in the FX chassis
- Drift Detection shows noncompliant for Modular servers that has PCIe card in the FX chassis
- Unable to deploy an OS on PowerEdge serves when the iDRAC does not populate the MAC address of the selected NIC
- When creating a host credential profile for the host having ESXi 6.5U1, the Service Tag of the host is not displayed on the Select Hosts page
- Dell EMC icon is not displayed after backup and restore from an earlier OMIVV version to a later OMIVV version
- When upgrading or downgrading some iDRAC firmware versions using OMIVV, even when the firmware update is successful, OMIVV may indicate that the job is failed.
- Configuring the System Lockdown mode at a cluster level sometimes displays a message "No hosts under the cluster has successful inventory"
- Sometimes post RPM upgrade of OMIVV appliance, multiple entries in the logs are seen in vCenter Recent Tasks
- After registration of vCenter, the Dell EMC logo of OMIVV is not displayed on the home page of VMware
- Non-compliant 11G PowerEdge servers are retained in OMIVV inventory after backup and restore
- Unable to launch vCenter from flex client after upgrading the OMIVV appliance
- When adding or removing network adapters to OMIVV, the existing NICs disappear from the OMIVV console
- After adding or removing the second NIC, the Network Configuration page shows three NICs
- A server with Unknown status in the earlier version is not listed on the Bare-metal Servers page after backing up and restoring to a latest OMIVV version
- After OS deployment, OMIVV failed to add ESXi host to vCenter or failed to add Host Profile or Enter Maintenance Mode is failed for host
- When performing backup and restore, error message displayed is not informative in admin portal if the invalid username is entered
- iDRAC license status is displayed as compliant on the management compliance page when the iDRAC IP is not reachable
- ESXi host is either disconnected or not responding state after successful OS deployment using OMIVV.
- Deployment job times out when network interface card (NIC) of OMIVV is not connected to the ESXi host network
- Warranty job is not running for certain hosts
- Management compliance page shows that incorrect credential profile name for hosts managed using chassis credential profile
- Proactive HA initialization is not happening after performing backup and restore
- OMIVV page displays invalid session, or time out exception, or two million errors in Firefox browser
- The System profile configuration preview task fails for iDRAC new user addition
- Attribute is not applied after successful system profile RAID deployment
- OMIVV lists the virtual IP of the lead when you try to add the member chassis in chassis credential profile
- Chassis inventory fails in OMIVV after promoting backup lead as a lead
- In vCenter, recent tasks pane does not show the details column for some OMIVV task notifications
- Unable to see the failure details in OMIVV logs for failed MX chassis firmware update job
- Host firmware update fails, if a canceled firmware update job of related chassis is present
- On the configuration preview page of the deployment wizard, an error message is displayed
- Bare-metal deployment issues
- Frequently Asked Questions-FAQ
- System specific attributes
- Additional information
- Customization attributes
- Component vs. baseline version comparison matrix
OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Version 5.0 User's Guide
Virtualization-related events
The following
table contains the virtualization-related critical and warning events,
and includes event name, description, severity level, and recommended
action.
The vitalization-related events are displayed in the following format:
Dell-Message ID:<ID number>, Message:<Message Description>.
The chassis events are displayed in the following format:
Dell-Message:<Message description>, Chassis name:<name of the chassis>, Chassis Service Tag:<chassis Service Tag >, Chassis Location:<chassis location>
| Event name | Description | Severity | Recommended action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dell-Current sensor detected a warning value | A current sensor in the specified system exceeded its warning threshold | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Current sensor detected a failure value | A current sensor in the specified system exceeded its failure threshold | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Current sensor detected a non-recoverable value | A current sensor in the specified system detected an error from which it cannot recover | Error | No action |
| Dell-Redundancy regained | Sensor Returned to Normal Value | Info | No action |
| Dell-Redundancy degraded | A redundancy sensor in the specified system detected that one of the components of the redundancy unit has failed but the unit is still redundant | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Redundancy lost | A redundancy sensor in the specified system detected that one of the components in the redundant unit has been disconnected, has failed, or is not present | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Power supply returned to normal | Sensor returned to Normal Value | Info | No action |
| Dell-Power supply detected a warning | A power supply sensor reading in the specified system exceeded a user definable warning threshold | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Power supply detected a failure | A power supply has been disconnected or has failed | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Power supply sensor detected a non-recoverable value | A power supply sensor in the specified system detected an error from which it cannot recover | Error | No action |
| Dell-Memory Device Status warning | A memory device correction rate exceeded an acceptable value | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Memory Device error | A memory device correction rate exceeded an acceptable value, a memory spare bank was activated, or a multibit ECC error occurred | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Fan enclosure inserted into system | Sensor returned to normal value | Info | No action |
| Dell-Fan enclosure removed from system | A fan enclosure has been removed from the specified system | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Fan enclosure removed from system for an extended amount of time | A fan enclosure has been removed from the specified system for a user-definable length of time | Error | No action |
| Dell-Fan enclosure sensor detected a non-recoverable value | A fan enclosure sensor in the specified system detected an error from which it cannot recover | Error | No action |
| Dell-AC power has been restored | Sensor Returned to Normal Value | Info | No action |
| Dell-AC power has been lost warning | An AC power cord has lost its power, but there is sufficient redundancy to classify this as a warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-An AC power cord has lost its power | An AC power cord has lost its power, and lack of redundancy requires this to be classified as an error | Error | No action |
| Dell-Processor sensor returned to a normal value | Sensor Returned to Normal Value | Info | No action |
| Dell-Processor sensor detected a warning value | A processor sensor in the specified system is in a throttled state | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Processor sensor detected a failure value | A processor sensor in the specified system is disabled, has a configuration error, or experienced a thermal trip | Error | No action |
| Dell-Processor sensor detected a non-recoverable value | A processor sensor in the specified system has failed. | Error | No action |
| Dell-Device configuration error | A configuration error was detected for a pluggable device in the specified system | Error | No action |
| Dell-Battery sensor returned to a normal value | Sensor Returned to Normal Value | Info | No action |
| Dell-Battery sensor detected a warning value | A battery sensor in the specified system detected that a battery is in a predictive failure state | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Battery sensor detected a failure value | A battery sensor in the specified system detected that a battery has failed | Error | No action |
| Dell-Battery sensor detected a nonrecoverable value | A battery sensor in the specified system detected that a battery has failed | Error | No Action |
| Dell-Thermal shutdown protection has been initiated | This message is generated when a system is configured for thermal shutdown due to an error event. If a temperature sensor reading exceeds the error threshold for which the system is configured, the operating system shuts down and the system powers off. This event may also be initiated on certain systems when a fan enclosure is removed from the system for an extended period of time | Error | No action |
| Dell-Temperature sensor returned to a normal value | Sensor Returned to Normal Value | Info | No action |
| Dell-Temperature sensor detected a warning value | A temperature sensor on the backplane board, system board, CPU, or drive carrier in the specified system exceeded its warning threshold | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Temperature sensor detected a failure value | A temperature sensor on the backplane board, system board, or drive carrier in the specified system exceeded its failure threshold value | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Temperature sensor detected a non-recoverable value | A temperature sensor on the backplane board, system board, or drive carrier in the specified system detected an error from which it cannot recover | Error | No action |
| Dell-Fan sensor returned to a normal value | Sensor Returned to Normal Value | Info | No action |
| Dell-Fan sensor detected a warning value | Fan Sensor reading in the host <x> exceeded a warning threshold value | Warning | No Action |
| Dell-Fan sensor detected a failure value | A fan sensor in the specified system detected the failure of one or more fans | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Fan sensor detected a nonrecoverable value | A fan sensor detected an error from which it cannot recover | Error | No action |
| Dell-Voltage sensor returned to a normal value | Sensor Returned to Normal Value | Info | No action |
| Dell-Voltage sensor detected a warning value | A voltage sensor in the specified system exceeded its warning threshold | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Voltage sensor detected a failure value | A voltage sensor in the specified system exceeded its failure threshold | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Voltage sensor detected a nonrecoverable value | A voltage sensor in the specified system detected an error from which it cannot recover | Error | No action |
| Dell-Current sensor returned to a normal value | Sensor Returned to Normal Value | Info | No action |
| Dell-Storage: storage management error | Storage management has detected a device independent error condition | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Storage: Controller warning | A portion of the physical disk is damaged | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Storage: Controller failure | A portion of the physical disk is damaged | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Storage: Channel Failure | Channel failure | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Storage: Enclosure hardware information | Enclosure hardware information | Info | No action |
| Dell-Storage: Enclosure hardware warning | Enclosure hardware warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Storage: Enclosure hardware failure | Enclosure hardware error | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Storage: Array disk failure | Array disk failure | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Storage: EMM failure | EMM failure | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Storage: power supply failure | Power supply failure | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Storage: temperature probe warning | Physical disk temperature probe warning, too cold or too hot | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Storage: temperature probe failure | Physical disk temperature probe error, too cold or too hot. | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Storage: Fan failure | Fan failure | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Storage: Battery warning | Battery warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Storage: Virtual disk degraded warning | Virtual disk degraded warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Storage: Virtual disk degraded failure | Virtual disk degraded failure | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Storage: Temperature probe information | Temperature probe information | Info | No action |
| Dell-Storage: Array disk warning | Array disk warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Storage: Array disk information | Array disk information | Info | No action |
| Dell-Storage: Power supply warning | Power supply warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Fluid Cache Disk failure | Fluid cache disk failure | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Cable failure or critical event | Cable failure or critical event | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Chassis Management Controller detected a warning | Chassis Management Controller detected a warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Chassis Management Controller detected an error | Chassis Management Controller detected an error | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-IO Virtualization failure or critical event | IO virtualization failure or critical event | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Link status warning | Link status warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Link status failure or critical event | Link status failure or critical event | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Security warning | Security warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-System: Software configuration warning | System: Software configuration warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-System: Software configuration failure | System: Software configuration failure | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Storage Security warning | Storage security warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Storage Security failure or critical event | Storage security failure or critical event | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Software change update warning | Software change update warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Chassis Management Controller audit warning | Chassis Management Controller audit warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Chassis Management Controller audit failure or critical event | Chassis Management Controller audit failure or critical event | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-PCI device audit warning | PCI device audit warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell Power Supply audit warning | Power supply audit warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Power Supply audit failure or critical event | Power supply audit failure or critical event | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Power usage audit warning | Power usage audit warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Power usage audit failure or critical event | Power usage audit failure or critical event | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Security configuration warning | Security configuration warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Configuration: Software configuration warning | Configuration: Software configuration warning | Warning | No action |
| Dell-Configuration: Software configuration failure | Configuration: Software configuration failure | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Virtual Disk Partition failure | Virtual disk partition failure | Error | Put the system into maintenance mode |
| Dell-Virtual Disk Partition warning | Virtual disk partition warning | Warning | No action |
| iDRAC events NOTE For all Proactive HA enabled hosts that are part of a cluster, the following virtualization events are mapped to the Proactive HA events; except events, "The fans are not redundant" and "The power supplies are not redundant" are not mapped. | |||
| The fans are redundant | None | Info | No action |
| Fan redundancy is lost | One of more fans have failed or have been removed or a configuration change occurred, which requires additional fans | Critical | Remove and reinstall failed fans or install additional fans |
| Fan redundancy is degraded | One of more fans have failed or have been removed or a configuration change occurred, which requires additional fans. | Warning | Remove and reinstall failed fans or install additional fans |
| The fans are not redundant | One of more fans have failed or have been removed or a configuration change occurred, which requires additional fans | Info | Remove and reinstall failed fans or install additional fans |
| The fans are not redundant. Insufficient resources to maintain normal operations | One of more fans have failed or have been removed or a configuration change occurred, which requires additional fans | Critical | Remove and reinstall failed fans or install additional fans |
| The power supplies are redundant | None | Info | No action |
| Power supply redundancy is lost | The current power operational mode is non-redundant because of a power supply exception, a power supply inventory change, or a system power inventory change. The system was previously operating in a power redundant mode | Critical | Check the event log for power supply failures. Review system configuration and power consumption |
| Power supply redundancy is degraded | The current power operational mode is non-redundant because of a power supply exception, a power supply inventory change, or a system power inventory change. The system was previously operating in a power redundant mode | Warning | Check the event log for power supply failures. Review system configuration and power consumption |
| The power supplies are not redundant | The current power supply configuration does not meet the platform requirements to enable redundancy. If a power supply fails the system may shut down. | Info | If unintended, review system configuration and power consumption and install power supplies accordingly. Check power supply status for failures |
| The power supplies are not redundant. Insufficient resources to maintain normal operations | The system may power down or operate in a performance degraded state | Critical | Check the event log for power supply failures. Review system configuration and power consumption and upgrade or install power supplies accordingly |
| Internal Dual SD Module is redundant | None | Info | No action |
| Internal Dual SD Module redundancy is lost | Either one of the SD card or both the SD cards are not functioning properly | Critical | Replace the failed SD card |
| Internal Dual SD Module redundancy is degraded | Either one of the SD card or both the SD cards are not functioning properly | Warning | Replace the failed SD card |
| Internal Dual SD Module is not redundant | None | Info | Install additional SD card and configure for redundancy if redundancy is desired |
| Chassis events | |||
| Power supply redundancy is lost | The current power operational mode is non-redundant because of a power supply exception, a power supply inventory change, or a system power inventory change. The system was previously operating in a power redundant mode | Critical | Check the event log for power supply failures. Review system configuration and power consumption |
| Power supply redundancy is degraded | The current power operational mode is non-redundant because of a power supply exception, a power supply inventory change, or a system power inventory change. The system was previously operating in a power redundant mode | Warning | Check the event log for power supply failures. Review system configuration and power consumption |
| The power supplies are redundant | None | Info | No action |
| The power supplies are not redundant | The current power supply configuration does not meet the platform requirements to enable redundancy. If a power supply fails the system may shut down. | Info | If unintended, review system configuration and power consumption and install power supplies accordingly. Check power supply status for failures |
| The power supplies are not redundant. Insufficient resources to maintain normal operations | The system may power down or operate in a performance degraded state | Critical | Check the event log for power supply failures. Review system configuration and power consumption and upgrade or install power supplies accordingly |
| Fan redundancy is lost | One of more fans have failed or have been removed or a configuration change occurred, which requires additional fans | Critical | Remove and reinstall failed fans or install additional fans |
| Fan redundancy is degraded | One of more fans have failed or have been removed or a configuration change occurred, which requires additional fans. | Warning | Remove and reinstall failed fans or install additional fans |
| The fans are redundant | None | Info | No action |
| The fans are not redundant | One of more fans have failed or have been removed or a configuration change occurred, which requires additional fans | Info | Remove and reinstall failed fans or install additional fans |
| The fans are not redundant. Insufficient resources to maintain normal operations | One of more fans have failed or have been removed or a configuration change occurred, which requires additional fans | Critical | Remove and reinstall failed fans or install additional fans |
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