OpenManage Essentials Quick Tour

OpenManage Essentials is an easy-to-use interface that can monitor the health of your devices, update drivers and firmware on your servers and much more.  Have a look to see how OME can help make managing your environment easier.

  • Portal – The main dashboard for everything going on in your datacenter.
  • Device Tree – A breakdown of each device, its health, and hardware inventory
  • Alert Console – A single location for all SNMP alerts and the ability to email, ignore, or launch apps.
  • Software Update – Quickly and easily patch your servers to the recommended level, or choose your own level.
  • Tasks – One to many tasks for power control, deploying OMSA, and your own command line tasks or scripts.
  • Reports  -- Pre-defined reports to display all of the hardware inventory from your systems.  Warranty reporting as well.

OpenManage Essentials Portal

The OME Portal is the place to go for a high level view of your datacenter.  Charts give the administrator insight into hardware alerts, device health status and the types of devices being managed.   Information that used to be obtained through navigating through the product can now be seen from a few clicks on the portal page.  The webparts can be move around and resized on the page to customize the view.  Additional reports can be added to the portal page to provide additional information at a glance.

 

OpenManage Essentials Device Tree

The device tree gives the administrator the ability to see the different catagories of devices in the datacenter along with a “roll-up” health status.  Clicking on the top level node for each category (e.g., Server, Network Device) will show the health status, power status and overview information for the device.  Clicking on the device itself will show the extensive hardware inventory that was collected along with alerts and system event (SEL) logs.  Right-click options provide a quick way to remotely connect as well as launch the element managers of the device.

OpenManage Essentials Alerts

The alert console is a full screen version of the alert web part on the OME portal page.  It provides extensive filtering and sorting capabilities and allows you to drill down into the message to see all the details on the SNMP alert.  OME allows you to set up rules to email alert information as well as launch applications and ignore unimportant alerts.

 

OpenManage Essentials Patch Compliance Report

After your servers are discovered and inventoried, the patch compliance report is automatically run against the software catalog to show what firmware, BIOS, and drivers might be out of date.  Drilling into the chart will bring up a list of servers along with the recommended updates.

OpenManage Essentials Patch / Software Update

Bringing your servers up to date with the latest drivers is as easy as checking the servers and software update packages and hitting the “Apply” button.

 

OpenManage Essentials Tasks

OME includes the ability to create your own command line tasks to target to your group of servers.  This can be a command line script, OMRemote/OMConfig, RACADM, or IPMI task.  Power Control tasks to reboot/power off servers are included, as are tasks to deploy OMSA.

 

OpenManage Essentials Reports

OME collects a tremendous amount of hardware data.  The report section is the place to go to view the inventory data for all of your systems in one location.  The grid reports also have a powerful sorting and filtering feature to let you customize the way you view your data.  OME also includes a warranty report so you can check on the status of your Dell server warranty.