Ports to open on a firewall appliance for OME
In our network OME and all the DRACs we are monitoring are in a private LAN and are able to communicate between themselves.For external functionality such as contacting Dell's FTP for the catalog and...
View ArticleESXi server showing incorrect version of Openmanage VIB
I have 25 ESXi servers that have the 7.3 vib on them, but OME is reporting that 7.2 is installed. We are running ESXi version 5.1.0, in the past it has always updated just fine. We also have some at...
View ArticleApplication Error 100 on Windows 2008 R2
Few minutes after adding a server within OME Console and enabling repeating polling of the status, we begin to have this event in the event logs:Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: Application...
View ArticleDell Server Inventory
Hi All,1 .) I have installed ESXi 5.1 on 4 Dell R710 server. One server is Showing Compliant & while other system are showing non complaint. Can you pl suggest what could be the issue b'coz System...
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UpdateESXi 5.1 by OME iDRAC fails
Is it possible to update an ESXi 5.1 server via OME? When I try to do it I receive error below. BMC utilities were installed. it has IDRAC7 and OMSA 7.2.0.
View ArticleIDRAC Multipul console access in Linux host server.(M610)
Hi I Prasanta,Today I have just tried for accessing multiple consoles in Linux host through IDRAC Virtual console option. But unable to connect.User wants to multiple sessions in Linux for opration...
View ArticleSudoer's with Dell OME
All,I've been working towards setting up OME to manage our hardware environment. One problem I've come across when testing pushing out updates is that when it asks for a Username/Password, the check...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 - Becoming Unknown after period of time
I have three ESXi 5.1 servers that have the Dell 7.2 VIB bundles installed. They all three discovered/inventoried fine using WS-Man. They all three show up great in OME1.1.1. After a few days, HOST01...
View Article1.2 Upgrade
I have an existing 1.1.1 install of OME. Is there any risk of the 1.2 update doing anything to impact systems which are registered in OME (i.e. inadvertent updates, and so on)?
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OME showing wrong devicenames and unknown NICs
Hi,We are having a couple of problems with Dell openmanage. it is quite a large enviroment and that may be some of the cause (almoast 100.000 IP adresses for the discovery ranges). We have never had...
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Broadcom 17.6 catalog Issue
Hey Guys, I noticed an earlier forum post about this, but I have some further details. This is not related to the update from OME 1.1.1 to 1.2.With the last catalog release, Broadcom version 17.6...
View ArticleOpenManage Essentials - Why do Alerts still register for Excluded Servers
We have set up a discovery range and within that IP range we have got Servers we do not want alerts from. We have excluded their IP address and yet we still get alerts from them. The only way we could...
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OME not registering SNMP traps from OMSA client
Hello, I'm doing some testing using a server with OME 1.2 installed and another server using OMSA 7.2, but having problems getting the right SNMP trap events to show up in OME as alerts. I've been...
View ArticleOpenManage Essentials search to find all Servers with iDRAC Express
Need to know how I can use OpenManage Essentials to check which Servers have iDRAC Express installed. As OpenManage performs a hardware inventory it should be detected, be wondered if there was a way...
View ArticleAuthentication failure error on every hour
I have installed OMSA with Windows 2k8 Enterprise R2 one of our blade Poweredge M710 server and discovered and inventoried in OME 1.1 successfully with SNMP and WMI authentication details but after one...
View ArticleAppropriate Discovery Protocol for APC PDU
What's the appropriate OME discovery protocol for APC PDUs?I have imported the latest APC MIB file (4.0.7) that covers the PDUs I use using the MIB Import Utility.
View ArticleOpenManage Essentials finds servers but their Health Status is Unknown (Grey...
The M1000e chassis is discovered and its health status is a green box with a tick, but the blades within the chassis are also discovered but their health staus is unknown. If i select one of the blades...
View ArticleErrors trying to push via iDRAC to ESXi boxes.
I keep getting the following errors on two separate ESXi boxes, one won't download the Broadcom firmware and another won't download the RAID firmware.Results: Downloading Packages. Package...
View ArticleOME and Windows Server version compatibility
Will OME 1.1.1.0 run on Windows Server 2012?Post
View ArticleProblem with DSM_OMSE_Netmon_32.exe. An account failed to log on.
Hardware: Dell PowerEdgeOS: Windows Server 2008 R2 OME Version: 1.2.0I'm monitoring our Dell OME server with our syslog server and I keep getting these messages...An account failed to log on. Subject:...
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