Brian, A lot of information can be found at the Dell Tech Center web site: http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/OpenManage+Systems+Management?t=anon I have also added some specific answers below.
Wayne Weilnau Systems Management Technologist Dell | OpenManage Software Development Please consider the environment before printing this email. Confidentiality Notice | This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential or proprietary information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, immediately contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -----Original Message----- From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Brian Candler Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 10:22 AM To: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Overview of management components? Could someone point me to an overview of the different Dell management software components and their functions? I'm having a bit of trouble working out what we should be evaluating to deploy. The marketing blurb at http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/data-center-system-management.aspx?cs=555 is rather fluffy. What I'd really like is a roadmap to what we can actually do with each bit, how the bits fit together, and which ones need to be paid for. The nearest I have found so far is here: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/SOFTWARE/omswrels/om63/index.htm That has one sentence for each component. >From what I can tell, OpenManage Server Administrator is what you install on each machine, allowing you to manage machines individually via SNMP and HTTPS (e.g. point your web browser directly at the machine) <WRW> Correct. This will give you basic hardware monitoring for both the system hardware and storage What's more difficult is working out what to use for central asset database and centralised monitoring. I can see there are at least Dell Management Console and Dell OpenManage IT Assistant. AFAICT, both will monitor performance across a collection of machines. However it looks like both require a Windows server with SQL Server. Are there any Linux-based solutions for managing a network of Dell machines? <WRW> Both of the current Dell provided solutions are Windows based. A number of customers do make use of Nagios. There may be other linux based solutions available from other systems management companies. The manual for Management Console says that the licence is free: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdmc/11/en/ug/intro.htm#1180144 but then later on says that you have to pay for some functionality: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdmc/11/en/ug/monitor.htm#1184247 <WRW> Basic hardware management is included in the free version. The manual for IT Assistant doesn't seem to say if it's free or not. <WRW> IT Assistant is free. There's more software listed at http://support.dell.com/manuals - but it doesn't include OpenManage Network Manager, which is referred to from the OpenManage Wikipedia page. <WRW> OpenManage Network Manager is used for managing Dell networking switches. It does not manage Dell servers. Any clarity you can shed on what's available would be much appreciated :-) Many thanks, Brian. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
