New whitepapers:
Forwarding Dell Hardware Alerts in a Tiered Monitoring Environment
The above whitepaper is for OME 1.1 users, who can create trap forwarding alert action to forward traps as-is to third party consoles or another OME instance for tiered events management.
Managing Devices via IPMI in OpenManage Essentials
The above whitepaper is a good document to review for customers who want to monitor PowerEdge C servers, HP iLO or IBM IMM using OME and run power control tasks.
Benefits of Server Power Control Options in OpenManage Essentials
The above whitepaper describes remote power control options (Ex: PowerCycle, Reboot, Shutdown) available in OME. Also describes various settings to be enabled on DRAC 5/iDRAC6/iDRAC7 for running these power control tasks from OME.
Updating iDRAC7 firmware 1.30.30 to 1.31.30 using OpenManage Essentials remote tasks feature
The above whitepaper addresses a specific problem observed in OME 1.1 w.r.t iDRAC7 firmware 1.30.30 that is part of all the 12G servers shipped since Dec 2012.
OpenManage Essentials v1.1 Scalability and Performance
Highlights Scalability and Performance improvements in OME v1.1.
Updated whitepapers:
Discovery and Inventory of Dell devices using OpenManage Essentials
Monitoring Dell PowerEdge servers with OpenManage Essentials.
Managing Dell Chassis and Blades Using OpenManage Essentials
Making My Environment Manageable for Dell OpenManage Essentials
Thanks,
Raj Shresta
