Discover PowerEdge servers by using the SCOM console

Steps

  1. In the left pane of the SCOM console, select Authoring.
  2. In the left pane, click the Add Monitoring Wizard link and perform the following actions:
  3. In the Add Monitoring Wizard dialog box, under Monitoring Type, select WS-Management and SMASH Device Discovery, and then click Next.
  4. Under General Properties, enter a name and description for the template.
    1. Under Management pack, click New.
    2. Enter a name for the management pack in the Name field and click Next.
      For information about creating a management pack, see the Microsoft SCOM documentation.
    3. Click Create.
      The management pack that you created is selected in the Management pack drop-down menu.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Under Select Target, from the Specify the target drop-down menu, select a resource pool for monitoring these devices and click Next.
  7. Under Credentials, click New and create a simple authentication run-as account.
    NOTE: If you are using AD domain credentials for iDRAC, then enter the credentials in the following format: username@domainname.com.
    1. Select the Run As Account you created from the Run As Account drop-down menu and click Next.
  8. Under Devices, click Add.
    1. On the Add Devices screen, specify the iDRAC IP (if your preferred discovery method is iDRAC WS-Man) or the Host IP (if your preferred discovery method is iDRAC access using Host operating system) address of the systems you want to discover, based on your monitoring preference. You can specify the preferred IP address of the systems by:
      • Scanning the IP Subnet that you provided.
      • Scanning a specified IP Range.
      • Importing a text file containing the list of iDRAC IP/ Host IP addresses.
      For more information, see the Configuration by using iSM PowerShell script section in the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller7/9 with Lifecycle Controller User’s Guide at https://www.dell.com/idracmanuals.
    2. Click Advanced Options, select the Skip CA Check and Skip CN Check options, and then click OK.
    3. Click Scan for Devices to search for Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers on your network.
      The IP addresses are listed under Available Devices.
    4. Click Add to add the list of IP addresses you want to monitor and click OK.
  9. Under Specify the devices you want to monitor, click Create.
  10. Click Close.
    The scanned PowerEdge servers are initially listed under Monitoring > WS-Management and SMASH Monitoring > WS-Management Device State. After the automatically triggered SMASH discovery is completed by the Operations Manager, the PowerEdge servers are listed under Monitoring > WS-Management and SMASH Monitoring > SMASH Device State.
  11. Enable the Dell EMC Server and Rack Monitoring (Licensed) feature through the Dell EMC Feature Management Dashboard.