Openmanage Enterprise - Modular Edition; Agent-Free Management; Agent-Based Management - Dell PowerEdge MX7000 Manual

OpenManage Enterprise - Modular Edition

The Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise-Modular Edition (OME-Modular Edition) helps to transform how you manage the
infrastructure and enable the business quickly. It is a unified web/RESTful API interface that manages all the nodes including
compute, storage, and networking. This helps reduce costs and consolidates multiple tools for ease of access and monitoring. The
simplified administration helps deploy and monitor at scale, from one to many chassis, with the support for remote management. The
Agile and intelligent automation drives faster hardware rollouts and reduces repetitive tasks for accelerated lifecycle management.
It runs on the PowerEdge M9002m management module (MM) firmware. OME-Modular facilitates configuration and management
of a stand-alone PowerEdge MX7000 chassis or group of MX7000 chassis from one Graphical User Interface (GUI). You can use
OME-Modular to deploy servers and update firmware. You can also manage the overall health of the chassis and the chassis
components such as compute sleds, networks, input or output modules (IOMs), and storage devices. OME-Modular also facilitates
hardware enabling:
• Connectivity of management network
• Discovery, inventory
• Monitoring and power control operations and thermal functions
You can use OME-Modular to manage key workloads on the MX7000 platforms.
• Large and unstructured data and analytics
• Hyper converged and traditional workloads
• Database workloads
• Software defined storage
• HPC and performance workloads
The lead chassis in the Multi Chassis Management (MCM) enables you to perform the following tasks:
• Manage servers across multiple MX chassis.
• Deploy or update servers from lead chassis without launching the member chassis web interface.
• Manage fabric switch engines in fabric mode using the OME-Modular web interface.
• Manage alert log and actions.
• Manage virtual MAC/WWN identity pools.
• Deploy compute sleds easily using server profiles and templates
OME-Modular offers simple and static roles such as the chassis administrator, compute manager, fabric manager, storage manager,
and viewer roles while, OpenManage Enterprise offers static and dynamic groups with role-based access control (RBAC).

Agent-free management

As Dell EMC PowerEdge servers have embedded server lifecycle management, there is no need to install an OpenManage systems
management software agent into the operating system of a PowerEdge server. This greatly simplifies and streamlines the
management footprint.

Agent-based management

Most systems management solutions require pieces of software, called agents, to be installed on each node in order to be managed
within the IT environment. Additionally, the same agent is often used as a local interface into the hardware health and may be
accessed remotely as a management interface, typically referred to as a one-to-one interface. For customers that continue to use
agent-based solutions, Dell EMC provides OpenManage Server Administrator.
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