Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. My name is Dustin. I am a Subject Matter Expert
in the systems management space. Today I will be going over the device pane
functions in OpenManage Enterprise. So device pane function means if we click on a device,
and we click on the name of the device it's going to take us to the actual device
pane of this asset right? And what we'll see is on this top here, we have a lot of,
a lot of options. I'm not going to go over every single one, a lot of them are very
self-explanatory, but i will go over the ones that we consider to be the most important.
So we'll start with just the overview tab and what we'll notice is that we have some health
sensors. We have our most recent alerts filtered to just this device, we have the ability to launch
virtual console, and we have you know different information like system up time, management ip.
Just a snapshot of some info about the device. Another option we have here is troubleshoot,
so if we look at the troubleshoot drop down we have the ability to reset the iDrac which
is important, we have the ability to pull TSR and SupportAssist collections, and we have the
ability to run diagnostics. Another good one here is remote command line drop down, so from here we
can do a RACADM CLI command directly to the device or an IPMI CLI command directly to the device.
At the end i'll show you how to do a uh, just a quick RACADM command just to show how that works.
So let's go ahead and move over to the hardware tab.
In hardware we have a basically a full inventory of every component, so that's really helpful.
You can see configuration of components like the the network devices and the NICs,
also the PERC storage controller, we can see different health sensors for components.
You can see licenses, firmware, inventory, lots of good information in here. In terms of what
you're going to see in the inventory on the tab, hardware tab. Move over to firmware for a moment
and if we look at the firmware tab this is where you can upload and apply
a single firmware update to a system, so instead of some people do their firmware
updates for multiple systems, but if there's just one system you need to update you can
go in the device and go straight to firmware tab and update it directly.
Hardware logs, so this is helpful because you get a full alert history of the device whether it be a
health roll-up or an actual alert and then you can also export this to a file and it'll just save it.
Configuration inventory tab, so this is uh, i don't have any information here right now because
i don't have the license for it. But this is where you can configure the BIOS, iDrac, RAID etc. It's
it's not extremely organized but it's better to use exported xml from iDrac or the TSR.
Now let's go back to our remote command line and I'm just going to show you all real quick,
the biggest thing i wanted to show you here is that normally
we would do uh something like this like, 'racadm getsysinfo',
all right now the thing is is that OpenManage Enterprise automatically puts the RACADM in for
you because you chose RACADM, so that's kind of something you got to remember.
So you're going to remove that part. You also don't have to do the remote options
because it'll put that part in for you too, as well as pass credentials. so let's see
what happens if we just do 'getsysinfo' and as we can see it did give us all the info.
So that's it. I hope you enjoyed my video going over device pane
functions in OpenManage Enterprise. Thank you and have a wonderful day.