Discover PowerEdge servers by using iDRAC WS-Man through OMIMSSC

About this task

You can discover the Dell EMC PowerEdge servers using iDRAC WS-Man through Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Dashboard on the SCOM console by using an IP address or an IP range.

To discover PowerEdge servers by using iDRAC WS-Man though OMIMSSC:

Steps

  1. In the left pane of the SCOM console, select Monitoring.
  2. Expand Dell EMC > Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Views, and then select Dell EMC OpenManage Integration Dashboard.
    The OMIMSSC login page is displayed in the working pane.
  3. Enter credentials for viewing the OMIMSSC dashboard, and then log in to OMIMSSC. Enter the username in the format: domain\username.
  4. Select Monitoring and click the View Servers link to discover PowerEdge servers.
  5. On the Server View page, click Discover.
  6. In the Discover dialog box, enter the iDRAC IP address and the device type credentials of a server to discover. When you are discovering servers by using an IP range, enter an IP (IPv4) range within a subnet by including the start and end range.
    1. On the Discovery using an IP Range or IP Address Range:
    • To discover a server by using its IP address:
      1. In the iDRAC IP Address box, enter an IP address of the server to discover.
    • To discover multiple servers by using a range of IP addresses:
      1. Enter the IP address range.
      2. To exclude IP addresses from getting discovered, select the Enable Exclude Range check box and enter the IP address range to exclude.

      You can discover a maximum of 250 servers at a time and successive discovery jobs can be triggered in an interval of one hour.

  7. From the Apply this Credential Profile drop-down menu, select the device credential profile that must be used for discovering the device. To create a device credential profile, click Create New. See Create Device Credential Profile.
  8. To view the status of this job, select the Go to the Job list check box.
  9. Enter a job name for this discovery task.
  10. Click Finish.
    A discovery job is created and started, and the discovered servers are listed on the Server View page.