I am managing an environment of Dell hardware and prefer to use OME as much as possible. So far we have had the practice of installing OMSA on servers because I thought that was necessary for OME to do the job we need.
I am no longer sure. Could I manage with just iDrac?
I have these types of hardware:
11G, 12G and 13G servers
Switches
An Equalogic SAN
A SonicWALL firewall
Some Dell IAP access points
We keep the IDracs up-to date.
This is what I want to achieve with OME (I am using SNMP and WS-man):
- receive alert emails when there are hardware problems
- Use System Update to see precisely which updates are available for which non-compliant system. This is view-only. We do not push anything out from OME.
- Have an overall indication of Health for each device
- View hardware logs
- View hardware inventory
Will I be able to do that in OME without OMSA on the servers? Including 11G servers?
Is there something else that I should absolutely be doing that OMSA enables?
My motivation for getting rid of OMSA is that we are not very good at keeping OMSA up-to-date and we find that doing this is a lot of work.
I realise that very similar questions have been asked here before, but I have found the answers to be somewhat contradictory.