Openmanage Integration And Connections With Third-Party Consoles; Dell Server Management Operations - Dell PowerEdge R220 Technical Manual

auto-discovery, operating system deployment and configuration of hardware elements, (RAID,
NIC, BIOS, iDRAC), OS and hypervisor agnostic updates, firmware management and system
viewer utilities.
 Dell Server PRO Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine
Manager (SCVMM): This pack manages Dell physical servers and hosts of virtual machines (VMs)
by using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager/System Center Essentials (SCOM/SCE)
and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). It provides guidance for remedial actions
based on alerts to best manage virtual machines and handle the impacts appropriately.
OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter: This plug-in allows IT administrators to monitor,
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provision, and manage the physical PowerEdge server hardware and firmware from a dedicated
Dell menu accessed through the VMware vCenter console using the same role-based access
control model as vCenter, combining physical server management.
 BMC Software: Dell and BMC Software work together to simplify IT by ensuring tight integration
between Dell server, storage, and network management functionality and the BMC Software
process and data center automation products.

OpenManage integration and connections with third-party consoles

Dell OpenManage provides integrations and connections with many third-party consoles, including:
Dell OpenManage Connection for Computer Associates Network and
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Systems Management: This connection allows you to monitor PowerEdge servers and
PowerVault storage arrays from within the Computer Associates Network and Systems
Management (CANSM) console.
Dell OpenManage Connection for HP Operations Manager: This connection enables several
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functions through HP Operations Manager, including auto-grouping, SNMP trap reception,
global health monitoring and a context-sensitive launch of OpenManage Server Administrator.
Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIBus: This connection provides
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event monitoring capabilities to monitor Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell EqualLogic systems. It
allows event monitoring, automatic event correlation and launching device consoles from the
Netcool/OMNIbus console.

Dell server management operations

Dell OpenManage systems management is centered on automating the server management
lifecycle — deploy, update, monitor and maintain. To manage an infrastructure properly and
efficiently, you must perform all of these functions easily and quickly. iDRAC7 with Lifecycle
Controller technology provides you with these intelligent capabilities embedded within the server
infrastructure. This allows you to invest more time and energy on business improvements and less
on maintenance.
Figure 9 illustrates the various operations that can be performed during the server's lifecycle.
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