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| Stooartbaby | OpenManage 5.4 - Cisco Switches |
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4 | Yesterday, 1:10 AM EDT by PhilipOlenick | |||
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Thread started: May 1 2008, 3:11 AM EDT
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Hi Guys,
I would like to use OpenManage as my central snmp trap server for my network devices (all cisco). I can get the snmp community strings working fine (I can click on Device Details in OM and see all the switch ports) but I would to do more.... like getting alll th switches to show under a group (instead on Unknown)... I have had a look on the Dell forums but there is no information of note... Am i barking up the wrong tree here? or is is posible to use OM in this way? Thanks heaps, Stuart.
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| Boozzard | Power Monitoring |
OpenManage Suggestions for Improvements
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0 | Friday, 12:45 PM EDT by Boozzard | |||
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I am sure you are well aware of the power restrictions in the datacentres of today. We are co-locating, as most medium business are, in a datacentre. We have 21 racks each of which are limited to 2KW. With the price of electricity increasing, we recently finished a 2 year contract during this time the cost of the racks increased from £4,500pa to £10,000pa, it is becoming increasinly important to insure that we are getting the best use out of our racks. We occasionally measure the power usage in our racks and most of the time we have underestimated the power and could probably save a rack, if we could organise the servers with the correct power usage.
We were concidering installing power metering into our racks so that we could monitor the racks in real time. So the inclusion of power metering into the PowerEdge servers is a great plus for us. This got me thinking about ITA and whether it could do a job for us. Could ITA have a similar display to the Dell Datacentre Capacity Planner where you could locate your servers in the correct racks and correct “U”. While the DDCP does a pretty good job in reality it seems to over estimate (for obvious reasons) the power usage. My “vision” here would allow for the following:- • Get better estimates of mixing the measured servers with DDCP estimates for older servers, over-ride DDCP estimates with a “similar” model real measurements • Get real power usage, max power usage & time of max of a rack of servers • In ITA move a Server to a new rack to test its power usage before physically moving it. This will test that it doesn’t over power the rack. • Trend and alert on rack power usage. • You could even get really clever and create virtual racks with shortcuts to real servers to test layout before moving servers around.
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| svaliev | ITA for cross domain management. |
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1 | Thursday, 11:10 AM EDT by scott_hanson | |||
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Thread started: Thursday, 10:36 AM EDT
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My company supports many clients remotely. So far we use Kaseya for server management and remote access. I've been put in charge of updating bios and firmware on those remote servers in different domains across our client base.
1. For example, Kaseya agents push information to the server. Does OMSA push info to ITA once the server has been "discovered"? Or does ITA pull information from OMSA client. 2. Is it possible to use ITA to manage those remote servers? Private IP to Private IP without extensive firewall configuration - port forwarding and such. Thanks for your time. --Samat Valiev
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| kwb | Open Manage Install on ESX (documentation) |
VMware Management
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2 | Wednesday, 4:56 PM EDT by balacs | |||
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Thread started: Apr 25 2008, 9:53 AM EDT
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The "installing Dell Openmanage Software in a VMware ESX Server Software Environment" and the install is pretty good.
I would like to see a small change for those of us that don't read the document cover to cover :-) In section 6.1 the first main bullet is to increase the service console memory by 128mb for OM 4.5 on ESX 2.5.x This should really be added to each section of Installing Dell OpenManage n.n on ESX n.n.x section. You may want to even make it bold. Since we were install OM 5.x on 3.x, we didn't read installing 4.x on 2.5.x
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| Acrobat | MD3000i and ISCSI Network IP Ranges |
VMware and iSCSI
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15 | Wednesday, 9:27 AM EDT by Jeff_Glenn | |||
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Thread started: Mar 5 2008, 5:57 PM EST
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I have the exact hardware and network setup as page 3 in this link:
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/md3000i_esx_deploy_guide.pdf On the MD3000i I have set up the controllers like this: controller 0, port 0 - 192.168.130.101 controller 0, port 1 - 192.168.131.101 controller 1, port 0 - 192.168.130.102 controller 1, port 1 - 192.168.131.102 On the ESX Servers, each server has an IP pool with an address in the 192.168.130, and 192.168.131 ranges. Everything is working fine. A college has suggested that why have the separate ranges? To which I answered "I don't know". Is it best practice to keep 2 IP ranges or is that just adding complexity to the network setup? Could I set up my controllers to be something like: controller 0, port 0 - 192.168.130.101 controller 0, port 1 - 192.168.130.102 controller 1, port 0 - 192.168.130.103 controller 1, port 1 - 192.168.130.104 And the ESX servers to have just 192.168.130.* IP addresses. Which config would you suggest and why?
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| Stooartbaby | Monitoring - Diskspace |
OpenManage Suggestions for Improvements
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0 | Tuesday, 8:27 PM EDT by Stooartbaby | |||
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Thread started: Tuesday, 8:27 PM EDT
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Hi Guys,
Being able to monitor disk space is great; it highlighted a number of servers with space issues within 20mins of monitoring being enabled in our environment. The ability to view the current day’s history and create a graph is exactly what we require... Would it be possible to enable a "date range" option so that we can more easily view the disk space trends over a longer period?
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| Stooartbaby | Software updates - via a particular server |
OpenManage Suggestions for Improvements
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0 | Tuesday, 8:13 PM EDT by Stooartbaby | |||
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Thread started: Tuesday, 8:13 PM EDT
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Hi Guys,
If we wish to carry out a firmware/driver update, we go to the software repository and select the driver... we then choose the compliance tab and either use a saved query or selected group then click compare, select the appropriate server then click update. This is a bit convoluted... It would be great if we could do it in either of the following ways... Right click the server in the Devices tree, select a software update option and proceed... Right click the server in the Software updates tree, select a software update option and proceed...
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| cmdr | Information about System Center |
Microsoft System Center
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0 | Tuesday, 11:39 AM EDT by cmdr | |||
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Thread started: Tuesday, 11:39 AM EDT
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Hello everyone,
We are performing feasibility studies on Microsoft System Center for a public institution. Modules of System Center that we are considering are: SCCM, SCOM, SCDPM, SCVMM. As we make progress on studies, we'll share findings on this wiki page. Thanks.
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| Stooartbaby | OpenManage Suggestions |
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1 | Tuesday, 11:11 AM EDT by scott_hanson | |||
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Thread started: May 5 2008, 7:17 PM EDT
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Hi Guys,
I was wondering if there was a way to gain access to (or create maybe??) a forum which customers can post suggestions on what improvments/added features we would like to see in OpenManage? it would need to be a forum which is accessed by the OpenManage development team... What do you reckon??? Thanks, Stuart.
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| sf_alpha | Storage within blade |
Blades
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2 | May 1 2008, 7:49 PM EDT by aaron_hanson | |||
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Thread started: Apr 19 2008, 12:59 AM EDT
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Will dell release any storage solution within blade ?
After study the whitepaper and compared to HP c-class system. Dell have no passive connection between blade and it only possible with I/O modules. But with some kind of SAS fabric module, it even can build whole storage solution using this blade enclosure. Consider storage blade using double-width, we got 2 x4 SAS connection to *each* I/O module act as in/out (or 4 x4 SAS but need 2 I/O module for redundancy). That fabric connect each half-height slot 1-in, 2-out, 3-in, 4-out, 5-in 6-out. Now it possible to get rid of MDx000 enclosure ;-) Does dell working on these ideas ?
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| scott_hanson | How to remove the red X - redundancy lost icon in ITA for Power |
04-08-2008 Chat Log
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8 | May 1 2008, 6:46 PM EDT by tagamet | |||
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Thread started: Apr 9 2008, 11:29 AM EDT
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Tagamet, we got an answer back from engineering. The system has to "think" that it only had one power supply to begin with. So are you ready for a little downtime ?
You'll have to completely remove power from the system and power it up with only a single power supply inserted. Then there is no redundancy to "lose". I just tested this on one of our 1850's in the lab. I had removed the 2nd supply, got the red-x and amber light on front of the server. I completely shut it down and removed the power cords, pulled out the 2nd power supply and turned it back on. Now it only has blue light and no errors. If you re-insert the 2nd power supply (without power cord) - it will go into error state and you would have to repeat process all over to return to original state. I think better solution is to do the Y-cables, now that you know it is not a doubling in power, only ~17%. Even though this won't protect you from a power leg failure, you can at least sustain a power supply failure. And you won't have to deal with this workaround, and you could perform the Y-cable upgrade without taking the machines down. What's your userid on the wiki ? Couldn't find you, and this is the only logical place I could think to contact you.
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| mobiusworks | Dell Systems Build and Server 2008 from Microsoft MAPS |
Windows Server 2008
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1 | May 1 2008, 12:30 PM EDT by scott_hanson | |||
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Thread started: May 1 2008, 9:10 AM EDT
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OpenManage 5.4 won't detect the CD from Microsoft we received via the MAPS (Microsoft Action Pack) for Partners program as a valid Installation Media for Server 2008 Standard. What exactly is the System Build looking for?
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| ubuntulinux | LUNs not mapping at boot anymore in RHEL 5 (used to) |
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0 | May 1 2008, 12:27 PM EDT by ubuntulinux | |||
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Thread started: May 1 2008, 12:27 PM EDT
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I configured an md3000i with the help of a Dell remote technician, but we have been having issues mounting LUNs at boot time. We basically have to run mount -a to have the drive appear when we do a df -H. what could be the problem? here is an output of the dmesg | tail:
/var/lib/dkms/mptlinux/4.00.07.00/build/mptctl.c::mptctl_ioctl() @617 - ioc0 not found! /var/lib/dkms/mptlinux/4.00.07.00/build/mptctl.c::mptctl_ioctl() @617 - ioc1 not found! /var/lib/dkms/mptlinux/4.00.07.00/build/mptctl.c::mptctl_ioctl() @617 - ioc2 not found! /var/lib/dkms/mptlinux/4.00.07.00/build/mptctl.c::mptctl_ioctl() @617 - ioc3 not found! /var/lib/dkms/mptlinux/4.00.07.00/build/mptctl.c::mptctl_ioctl() @617 - ioc4 not found! /var/lib/dkms/mptlinux/4.00.07.00/build/mptctl.c::mptctl_ioctl() @617 - ioc5 not found! /var/lib/dkms/mptlinux/4.00.07.00/build/mptctl.c::mptctl_ioctl() @617 - ioc6 not found! /var/lib/dkms/mptlinux/4.00.07.00/build/mptctl.c::mptctl_ioctl() @617 - ioc7 not found! We uninstalled the host agent and the Multi-Path drivers several times, but can't seem to know how to resolve that. server: PE 2950 OS RHEL 5.0 Thanks
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| Stooartbaby | Power consumption 5.4 |
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1 | May 1 2008, 11:56 AM EDT by scott_hanson | |||
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Thread started: May 1 2008, 1:20 AM EDT
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Hi Guys,
I am a bit confused as to what systems support the power consumption monitoring now available in 5.4. Is there a "document for dummies' that clearly shows which model servers (assuming and bios/drivers are upto date) are supported? looking through the dell documentation made my brain die.... : ) Our server fleet consists on 750, 850, 1750, 1850, 2650, 2850, 2950, 6500 and 6850 servers... and around 80ish VMs running on ESX. When I setup and run the power consumption monitoring, all my servers display as the Circle/question mark icon (un-instrumented system)... :( Also, I enabled the disk space monitoring which immediately highlighted an issue with 2 of our servers…(now resolved) nice one! : ) Thanks, Stuart.
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| gerlin | OpenManage on ESX 3i 3.5 |
OpenManage Systems Management
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1 | Apr 30 2008, 3:15 PM EDT by scott_hanson | |||
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Thread started: Apr 30 2008, 2:24 PM EDT
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The VMware web site states that the latest version of ESX3i supports OpenManage 5.4 (http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/vi3_esx3i_i_35u1_vc25u1_rel_notes.html). Though I don't see any referenence to this anywhere. Is there a version of OpenManage that works with the 3i infrastructure?
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| deyes | MD3000i HOST GROUPS SHARING VDISKS ACROSS MULTIPLE VM VIRTUAL MACHINES |
VMware and iSCSI
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2 | Apr 30 2008, 4:46 AM EDT by deyes | |||
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Thread started: Apr 29 2008, 10:18 AM EDT
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I have the following 3 x dell 2950 running exs 3.5, These run 5 VMWARE virtual machines "call these vm1-5".All the machines exist on a VDisk created on an MD3000i.The md3000i is split into 3 vdisks , 1 for the Virtual machine env (vmenv), 1 for application data "appdata" ie exchange 2007 and the 3rd for office data."offdata"
I created the host groups for each of my data areas and created and linked the relevant Vdisks. I installed the relevant initiator software onto Vm1-5 , I then attached the appdata vdisk to VM1. No problems so far Vm1 can see and write to Vdisk appdata..all hosted in a virtual Vmware env Great It all goes pearshape from now on.I now want to attach as a shared host vdisk appdata to VM2 "this being the main application server. Iscsi initiator loaded, Disk identified and new local disk e: appears Super.However any data changes to this disk are not reflected on the the other shared host of this Vdisk this being VM1...similarly any data changes from VM1 to appdata are not seen on the dir ouput from VM2.......So i rebooted both vmservers..on restart both had lost the attached vdisk's...both machines reported the disks as offline.,,,I activated the disks on both machines and checked the data.the disks on both machines now only show the data that was originally reported by vm1 ie all data added,changed etc from VM2 is missing..Almost as if each disk is creating and reporting its own MBR and on reboot picks up the MBR record with the latest timestamp.So my question is am I correct in thinking that shared hosted disks means that two machines can share the same vdisk seen by the vm machine as a local disk and live updates should be apparent across the board..if so i have a config problem and need some help finding it. or Have I totally misunderstood the concept and Vmware and MD3000i does not support the sharing of a vdisk as one volume to be seen by two machines as the same local disk.
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| PhilipOlenick | Switching to Dell OpenManage |
4-28-08 - Switching the Dell OM - Comments
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1 | Apr 29 2008, 5:12 PM EDT by scott_hanson | |||
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Thread started: Apr 29 2008, 11:09 AM EDT
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Hi, as part of the Dell Advanced Systems Group (System Consultants), I would be interested in knowing when DELL will be able to manage HP systems. (HP Insight Manager can manage Dell PowerEdge in a minimal fashion)
This is most often mentioned by HP. Although our System Management is excellent and easy to use and deploy, we currently lack the capability to Manage HP systems...If we had this, now that would be a show stopper!
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| durkinr | Dell Virtual Floppy and CD-ROM in Win08 |
Windows Server 2008
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1 | Apr 28 2008, 11:41 PM EDT by todd_muirhead | |||
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Thread started: Apr 25 2008, 11:54 AM EDT
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On a fresh install two virtual USB devices are installed, virtual floppy and virtual CD-ROM. Why are these installed and how do you use them?
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| mwiseley | Openmange 5.4 and Server 2008 |
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7 | Apr 28 2008, 9:21 PM EDT by pcrequest | |||
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Thread started: Feb 25 2008, 11:00 AM EST
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We are currently working on deploying our first 2008 Servers, but can't find Openmanage 5.4 which from what I have read is the only supported version. Can someone help me find 5.4?
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