Page 1 Dell OpenManage Network Manager version 5.1 Web Client Guide...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Preface ..........9 Why Dell OpenManage Network Manager?......9 Key Features .
Page 4 How to: DAP Workflow ........51 Aging Policies Editor .
Page 5 Audit Trail Portlet..........93 Schedules .
Page 6 How to’s............243 OpenManage Network Manager Server Statistics ....244...
Page 7 Resource Monitors ..........245 Retention Policies .
Page 8 Compliance and Change Reporting ......329 How to: Report on Change Determination ....331 11 Storage Arrays .
Page 9: Preface
Dell OpenManage Network Manager provides the network information you need, and offers advanced capabilities with minimal configuration overhead. Valuable Dell OpenManage Network Manager often costs less to use and maintain than most other solutions. Scalability You can scale Dell OpenManage Network Manager to almost any size.
Page 10 Traps and Syslog Dell OpenManage Network Manager lets you investigate network issues with traps and Syslog messages. You can use Dell OpenManage Network Manager to set up events / alarms and then receive, process, forward, and send syslog and trap messages.
Page 11: Networks With Dell Openmanage Network Manager
Profiles of the resources on a network. After that occurs, you can configure Visualize (topology views), Resource Monitors and Performance Dashboards. Once you have done these initial steps, Dell OpenManage Network Manager helps you understand and troubleshoot your network. For example: Suppose a OpenManage Network Manager Performance Dashboard displays something you want to troubleshoot.
Page 12: Online Help / Filter
Updating Your License If you have a limited license — for example OpenManage Network Manager may limit discovery to a certain number of devices— then your application does not function outside those licensed limits. You can purchase additional capabilities, and can update your license for OpenManage Network Manager by putting the updated license file in a convenient directory.
Page 13: Feedback
Feedback To provide your input about this software click the Feedback link in the lower left corner of the Dell OpenManage Network Manager screen. Provide your contact information, enter Questions, Likes, New Ideas, or a Problem, in the screen that appears next, then click Send.
Page 14 A Note About Performance | Preface...
Page 15: Getting Started With Dell Openmanage Network Manager
Network Manager Overview This chapter describes how to install and start Dell OpenManage Network Manager for basic network monitoring and management. For more detailed descriptions of all this software’s features, consult its other manuals (the OpenManage Network Manager Administration Section of the User Guide, Synergy User Guide, Administration Section and User Guide) or the online help.
Page 16 95% of its time idle and 5% of its time trying to keep pace with the resource demands. Upgrading from a Previous Version When you upgrade your OpenManage Network Manager installation from a previous version, keep the following in mind: •...
Page 17 Linux Installation Best Practices How you install Linux has an impact on Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s installation. Here are some tested best practices: • You can install Linux in its Desktop option, or if you select Basic Server (default) - choose additional packages: XWindows, Basic / Core Gnome Desktop without Gnome utilities, although we suspect any Gnome will work).
Page 18 [someone@RHEL5-64bit ~]$ ldd /opt/dorado/oware3rd/expect/linux/bin/expect linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libexpect5.38.so => /opt/dorado/oware3rd/expect/linux/bin/ libexpect5.38.so (0xf7fd2000) libtcl8.4.so => /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so (0x0094c000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x0033e000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00315000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00b8d000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x001ba000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0019d000) Overview | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 19 You can often resolve problems by refreshing the browser’s display. CAUTION: Opening Dell OpenManage Network Manager, or links originating within it in multiple tabs on multi-tab browsers is not supported. To see “multiple” screens, configure Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s Menu Bar.
Page 20: Single Server Sizing
You can generally expand modern systems running Dell OpenManage Network Manager by adding more RAM to the host server(s). Selecting expandable hardware may also be critical to future growth. For ease of management, deployments selection best practice is to use the fewest possible servers.
Page 21: Sizing For Standalone Installations
20G / 2000 is easier to manage than 20G / 1000. 20G / 1 is a thousand times more demanding than 20G / 1000. Best practice is to avoid such high sample rates. The bandwidth the hardware your Dell OpenManage Network Manager installation can support is dramatically lower in such cases.
Page 22: Network Basics
See Starting Web Client on page 33 for more information about using web access to this software. 64-bit Since Dell OpenManage Network Manager has a web server, demands on 32-bit system resources are near their limits. A standalone 32-bit system with Application server, Web server, and database requires nearly all addressable memory, and is therefore not supported.
Page 23 Multicast. Overriding Properties Dell OpenManage Network Manager lets you fine-tune various features of the application. Rather than lose those changes if and when you upgrade your application, best practice is to override changes. To do this, first change the provided file \oware\synergy\conf\server- overrides.properties.sample to server-overrides.properties, and enable the...
Page 24: Authentication
Fixed IP Address OpenManage Network Manager includes a web server and application server which must be installed to hosts with fixed IP addresses or permanently assigned Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) leases. If you do change your host’s IP address To accommodate a changed IP address, first delete the contents of \oware\temp.
Page 25 Allow those you want to manage. (See Firewall Issues below.) License—Make sure you have the proper Windows Base driver license installed. If you have a Dell- only license and are discovering a non-Dell computer, discovery does not work. Or if you have a Dell license for desktop discover you cannot discover a server.
Page 26 To start | stop | get status of the WBEM service: tog-pegasus start | stop | status" If the system is running Fedora, then you can access tog-pegasus updates at this site: admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/tog-pegasus Sizing for Standalone Installations | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 27: Getting Started
• ALL - this gives the driver all capabilities for any computer system. CAUTION: If you discover an Amigopod host that does not have its SNMP agent turned on, Dell OpenManage Network Manager labels it a WMI or WBEM host rather than an Amigopod host.
Page 28: Installation And Startup
Installation and Startup below includes instructions for a basic installation. If you have a large network, or anticipate a large number of web clients, then best practice is to install Dell OpenManage Network Manager as the Administration Section of the User Guide guide instructs.
Page 29 OpenManage Network Manager > Start application server), or type startappserver in a command shell, or right-click the server manager tray icon and select Start (if you have installed Dell OpenManage Network Manager as a service and that icon is red, not green). •...
Page 30 CAUTION: If you are using Dell OpenManage Network Manager in an environment with a firewall, ports 8080 and 80 must be open for it to function correctly. If you want to use cut-through outside of your network then ports 8082 – 8089 must be open. Dell OpenManage Network Manager uses the first one available, so typically 8082, but if another application uses 8082, Dell OpenManage Network Manager uses 8083 and so on.
Page 31: How To: Set Linux Permissions
Do not install root. During the installation a prompt appears to execute a script as root. This means you need root password and must open another shell where you act as root. Execute linux_install, this begins the installation process, and follow the prompts. Installation and Startup | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 32: Perl
Perl installed. You can find information about Perl at www.perl.com. Follow the downloads link to find the recommended distribution for your specific platform. (See Adaptive CLI Script Language Syntax on page 366) Installation and Startup | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 33: Starting Web Client
The following sections discuss typical administrative steps in getting started, once you have installed OpenManage Network Manager. See Getting Started on page 27 for a list of, and links to, other initial tasks once you have installed Dell OpenManage Network Manager.
Page 34: Control Panel
Control Panel To configure access to Dell OpenManage Network Manager, you must be signed in as a user with the permissions. (The default admin user has such permissions.) The Go to > Control Panel menu item opens a screen with the following tabs of interest: •...
Page 35: [My Account]
Social equity lets you alter measurements for user participation in organizations. Equity values determine the reward value of an action; equity lifespans determine when to age the reward of action. Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 36: Portal > Users And Organizations
How To: Add Users and connect them to Roles Add Users with the following steps: Click Go to > Control Panel and navigate to Portal > Users and Organizations. Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 37 Organizations screen when you select View > All Users. To assign a user to a role, click Action > Permissions and check the appropriate box next to the role. Configure OpenManage Network Manager functional permissions for these roles in Roles (see Redcell > Permission Manager on page 42).
Page 38: How To: Configure Organizations
Create two Location organizations (Add > Location, for example Admin and Headquarters). Select MyCorp as the parent when you create the organization. Create users in MyCorp. TestUserA, TestUserB, and TestUserBoss. Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 39 You are a member of the organization you created, because you created it. By creating an organization, you become both a member and have the Organization Owner role, which gives you full rights to the organization. Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 40: Public / Private Page Behavior
For example: If Max Items is 50 in minimized mode it does not affect the Max Items in the Maximized window state. This lets you configure modes independently. Dell OpenManage Network Manager remembers the default sort column and order per user, whether the user has Admin rights or not. The Sort Column/Order (Descending/Ascending) is also shared between both summary and maximized portlets.
Page 41: Portal > Roles
Identification, including address, phone, email and web sites. • Display settings • Google Apps login / password. CAUTION: Checking Allow Strangers to create accounts may produce a defective login screen. Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 42: Portal > [Other]
Roles, which aggregate users regardless of community affiliation. Create Roles with Portal > Roles. The Users editor screen accessible from the Action menu for users listed in Portal > Users and Organizations lets you manage groups to which Users are assigned. Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 43 Edit permissions with the Edit button to the right of the listed permission. The following describes the actions of the permissions, when checked: Action Default Behavior Enables Details, Visualize and View as PDF read Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 44 When you hover the cursor over a functional permission, tooltips provide a description. You can also click on the Search button at the bottom to find a phrase within the functional permissions. Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 45: Redcell > Data Configuration
Redcell > Data Configuration This panel configures custom attributes for Dell OpenManage Network Manager. Click the Edit button next to the Entity Type (Managed Equipment, Port, Contact, Vendor, or Location) for which you want to create custom attributes. This opens an editor listing the available custom attributes for the entity type. Edit Custom Attributes on page 89 describes right-clicking to access this directly from the portlet menu, and the details of how to edit custom attributes.
Page 46: Redcell > Mediation
If no entries are unique, the partition is not saved. NOTE: This panel does not appear if you install Dell OpenManage Network Manager in stand-alone mode, without a separate mediation server. To make it appear, add to the medserver.support=true...
Page 47 The Test button scanning the ports in the proposed application server / mediation server link, validating the installed versions of Dell OpenManage Network Manager in both locations are the same, and validating the connection between application server and mediation server. A job screen like those described in Audit Trail / Jobs Screen on page 91 appears to track the progress of testing.
Page 48: Redcell > Filter Management
Redcell > Filter Management This screen, accessible from Go to > Control Panel lets you manage the filters in OpenManage Network Manager. Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 49: Server
This portion of the Control Panel lets you manage the portal’s web server. Tooltips describing these screens appear when you hover the cursor over fields, or click the blue circle surrounding a question mark in the title bar. Here are some of its functions: Control Panel | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 50: Redcell > Database Aging Policies (Dap)
Manager, we include Wikis, Journals, Blogs so, in addition to the collaborative features within Dell OpenManage Network Manager itself (as in Sharing on page 87, and Status Bar Alerts on page 75). This means you can collect the knowledge and advice of those managing your network as it expands or changes.
Page 51: How To: Dap Workflow
Enabled, and so on. Specify the Archive Location. Those listed are the Repositories listed on the Repositories tab. You can manage those on that tab. Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 52: Aging Policies Editor
Base Archive Name— The prefix for the archived file. Compress Archive— Check to compress the archive file. Archive Location—Select from the available Repositories in the pick list. Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 53 For most DAPs, this is the Daily (recommended) DAP. Right-click to edit it. The Scheduled Aging Policies list should include all DAPs that have selected that schedule. Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 54: Aging Policies Options
Keep [Aged Item] for this many days—The number of days to keep the aged item before archiving it. Archive [Aged Item]— Check this to activated archiving according to this policy. Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 55: Sub-Policies
Sub-Policies Some types of Database Aging Policies can have sub-policies that further refine the aging for their type of contents. Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 56 Action Type—This further sub-classifies the Component. Retention (Days)—The number of days to keep the aged item before archiving it. Archive— Check this to activated archiving according to this policy. Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 57: Repositories
Repositories When you select a repository in the Aging Policies Editor, the available policies come from what is configured in this tab of the editor. Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 58: Portlet Level Permissions
[Enter], type to use this utility. dapviewer Portlet Level Permissions You can also provide permission for a user/group/role/organization on a defined portlet. Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 59: How To: Configure Portlet Permissions
Create a Container for each Customer • Configure Membership for Container (resources that customer can access) • Set Authorization for User Container • Set up a Page for Device Level View Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 60 Add a Container View to the page of interest with portlets for which you want to restrict access. Currently Container View is enabled for the following portlets: Managed Resources, Alarms, Ports, Audit Trails, Printers. Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 61: Database Backup
-u USERNAME -p drop owbusdb mysqadmin -u USERNAME --password=[password] drop owbusdb Recreate the database mysqladmin -u USERNAME -p create owbusdb mysqadmin -u USERNAME --password=[password] create owbusdb Import the backup data Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 62: Quick Navigation
235 for more about these capabilities. Deploy OS Image— This deploys firmware updates. To deploy images, you must have File Servers configured, as described above for Backup. See Deploy Firmware on page 238. Quick Navigation | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 63: License Viewer
This screen appears when you click License Management in the Quick Navigation portlet. Click Close to return to Dell OpenManage Network Manager. You may find Licenses in a name slightly different from the one you expect. For example, the Reports portlet is licensed as part of the Inventory Manager product.
Page 64: How To: Register A License
This tab displays the Maximum Allowed number of licenses for devices, the Count Managed the Variance between maximum and managed, and Type of license along with sums of the maximum and count managed. License Viewer | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 65: Discovery Profiles
Manage by IP address or hostname, and check whether to Resolve Hostname(s), ICMP Ping Device(s), Manage ICMP-only Device(s), or Manage Unclassified Device(s). This last checkbox determines whether Dell OpenManage Network Manager Discovery Profiles | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 66 Resync action. Use Add Action to select others to enter here. You can also edit parameters (if available), delete and re-order the actions listed here by clicking the icons to the right of them. Dell OpenManage Network Manager executes them in top-to-bottom order. Inspection Inspect Network using your current settings—This screen lets you preview the discovery...
Page 67 Results Execute—Clicking Execute begins discovery, confirm you do not mind waiting, and the message traffic between Dell OpenManage Network Manager and the device appears on the Results screen. This is a standard Audit screen. See Audit Trail / Jobs Screen on page 91 for more about it.
Page 68: Managed Resources
A red flag appears with the “Setup required” message in the Status column when these are not configured. Configuring them displays a green flag with the “Setup complete” message. Click the edit link in the Action column to open editors for each of these. Managed Resources | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager...
Page 69: Smtp Configuration
Dell OpenManage Network Manager must have a mail account. This screen configures the e-mail server so Dell OpenManage Network Manager can send such automated e-mails. The Apply button accepts your edits. Test tries them. Cancel abandons them and returns to Dell OpenManage Network Manager. This screen contains the following fields: SMTP Server Host—The IP address or hostname of your SMTP server.
Page 70: Netrestore File Servers
Either turn off the external file server, or use it as the FTP server. Dell OpenManage Network Manager selects the file server protocol for backup, restore or deploy based on the most secure protocol the device supports.
Page 71: Portal Conventions
Portal Conventions This section explains how to navigate and configure the Dell OpenManage Network Manager web portal. Because this portal is based on open source features, and can be so flexible, this is not a comprehensive catalog of all its features. The following discusses only features significant for using Dell OpenManage Network Manager.
Page 72: Tooltips
Tooltips Dell OpenManage Network Manager has extensive tooltips that appear when you click the blue circle with a question mark (one help icon—see also Online Help / Filter on page 12), or when you hover the cursor over a field.
Page 73: The Dock
The “breadcrumb” trail that appears near the top of pages lets you navigate directly through the hierarchy of parent / child pages directly by clicking links displayed there. The More... menu item contains Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s content. Click a node to see available portlets. See Portlets on page 78.
Page 74 Page (page order [note that you can drag-and-drop pages within the Pages tab] permissions, appearance and so on). You can create Children pages, and can Import / Export page configurations as described below. Use the screen that appears after selecting Manage > Page to configure add or delete pages and to manage their appearance and permissions.
Page 75: Status Bar Alerts
This also provides access to Control Panel (see Control Panel on page 34). CAUTION: Dell OpenManage Network Manager does not support multiple tab browsing as a reliable way to see its screens. Pages overcome that limitation. Administrators can permanently configure Public pages, while users with fewer rights can only configure their Private pages.
Page 76: Chat / Conferencing
Chat / Conferencing This portion of the message bar lets you send and receive messages to colleagues who are online at the same time you are. This has the following fields and other possibilities for you to configure: [Saying]—Configure this text in the menu produced by the Settings icon (the next item). (Settings)—This configures your user settings for any online chat with your colleagues, including the saying, whether your online presence appears, and whether to play a sound when messages arrive.
Page 77: Menu Bar
The Menu Bar appears on the left side of the screen. It consists of Menu items that lead to separate pages configured with Manage > Page. The pages that appear on this bar can vary, depending on which Dell OpenManage Network Manager package you have installed. The toggle on the right side of the The Dock makes this menu bar appear or disappear.
Page 78: Portlets
Install the latest Adobe Flash for graph functionality. Portlets Portlets are the elements of any page within the Dell OpenManage Network Manager web client. Initially, they appear in a small, summary screen format. Click Add > More... to add a portlet to a page you have created.
Page 79 contains several editing controls. Clicking on the wrench icon produces a menu that leads to editors for the Configuration of this portlet (user permissions to view and configure, Sharing, and so on). Some portlets, like Site Map, let you import or export .lar files of their setup and user preferences. The plus or minus (+ or -) icons Minimize, displaying only the title bar, or Maximize, displaying an Expanded Portlets, and X removes the portlet from the page.
Page 80 Settings The Settings button opens a screen where you can configure the Max Items that appear in, and the Filter applied to the summary portlet with an Apply button to activate any changes you make there. The Settings screen also includes a tab where you can Show / Hide / Reorder Columns. For performance reasons, Max Items are set to relatively low defaults.
Page 81 Search You can search by clicking Search at the top of portlets. This opens a search field where you can enter search terms for all the fields that appear in the list at the top of the portlet. The search is for what you enter, no wildcards are supported.
Page 82: Expanded Portlets
Sorting Portlet Lists Sorting tables that list items occurs when you click a column heading. The arrow to the right of that heading’s text displays the direction of the sort (ascending or descending). When the arrow appears in a heading, the selected column is the basis for sorting.
Page 83 See Control Panel on page 34 for more about setting up user privileges for portlets. You can right-click to act on listed elements as in the basic, smaller portlet, but here you can also see details about a selected row in the Snap Panels below the table list items in an expanded portlet.
Page 84: How To: Show / Hide / Reorder Columns
How To: Show / Hide / Reorder Columns Click the Settings button in an expanded portlet, and screen appears with a Columns tab where you elect to show or hide columns. Click the appropriate buttons (they change color) to display the columns you want.
Page 85: How To: Filter Expanded Portlet Displays
Snap Panels (Reference Tree) These vary, depending on the portlet, but the convention of displaying a Reference Tree panel is common. This displays items related to the selected list item in tree form. Click the plus (+) to expand a node on the tree. Click Return to previous in the upper right corner of the expanded portlet to return to the page where you started, with the smaller portlet.
Page 86: Common Menu Items
Tag items with a location. NOTE: You can also export or import page configurations as well as items Dell OpenManage Network Manager manages like equipment, discovery profiles, locations and so on. Aging Policy—See Redcell > Database Aging Policies (DAP) on page 50 for instructions about configuring these.
Page 87: Sharing
Sharing You can share elements within Dell OpenManage Network Manager with colleagues when more than one user exists on your Dell OpenManage Network Manager system, and consult with them using the texting described in Status Bar Alerts on page 75.
Page 88: How To: Share A Resource
How To: Share a Resource To share an something, first select it where it appears listed in the appropriate portlet. Right click and select Share Asset. In the subsequent screen, select a user with whom you want to share, type any message you want to include and click Share Asset.
Page 89: Edit Custom Attributes
Edit Custom Attributes In several right-click menus (Managed Equipment, Port, Contact, Vendor, or Location), the Edit Custom Attributes menu item lets you open the custom attribute editor appropriate for the device type listed in the portlet. See Redcell > Data Configuration on page 45 for another way to get to this editor.
Page 90: View As Pdf
View as PDF This displays the selected asset’s information as a PDF. You can search, print or save this to file, and use any of the other Acrobat capabilities. Clicking the acrobat logo docks the floating / disappearing Acrobat toolbar within this screen. To search the PDF produced, click the binocular icon in the docked toolbar.
Page 91: Audit Trail / Jobs Screen
Audit Trail / Jobs Screen When you execute an action, for example discovering network resources, an audit trail screen appears with a tree displaying the message traffic between Dell OpenManage Network Manager and the device(s) the action addresses. To see the details of any message, click on it, and those details appear in the lowest panel of this screen.
Page 92: Audit Trail Viewer
Audit Trail Viewer Some portlets also offer an Audit Trail menu item that displays Audit Trail / Jobs Screens for the selected item. The top of this screen contains a list of Audit Records. Click one of this list to see the Job details as you would in the Audit Trail / Jobs Screen.
Page 93: Audit Trail Portlet
Audit Trail Portlet The audit trail summary portlet displays an archive of the message traffic between Dell OpenManage Network Manager and monitored devices, as well as OpenManage Network Manager’s reaction to failed message transmission. The Creation Date, Subject, Action (the summary message of the audit trail), User ID (the login ID of the user whose actions resulted in this trail), and Status of the messages appear in the table (hover the cursor over the icon for a text message describing status).
Page 94 In addition to the summary screen’s columns, the following are available in this screen: User IP— The IP address of the user who created this audit trail. Subject— The equipment at the origin of the message traffic with Dell OpenManage Network Manager.
Page 95: Schedules
Click the binocular icon to check (info, warning, error) filters that limit the types of visible messages. Notice that the date and time of the message appears to the right of the binocular icon. Schedules To schedule an action, for example using a discovery profile, right click and select Schedule.
Page 96 Schedule new actions from the portlet that ordinarily executes them, for example Resource Discovery on page 152. If you have Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s Change Management / Proscan capabilities installed, you can use Schedules to initiate the Change Determination process. See Change Determination Process on page 326.
Page 97 Expanded Schedules Portlet When you expand this portlet, the additional columns that appear include Submission Date, Start Date, whether the schedule is still active (Scheduled), and the Execution Count. If a green icon appears in the Scheduled column, it means the schedule will be executed on next start date.
Page 98 Schedules | Portal Conventions...
Page 99: Key Portlets
Key Portlets This section describes some of the key Dell OpenManage Network Manager portlets. You may not have access to all of these in your installation, or you may not be able to use them with the user permissions you have been assigned by the portal administrator.
Page 100 The chart can act as a filter, too. For example, clicking the Critical alarms slice means only Critical alarms appear listed. Notice also that the chart “explodes” to highlight the selected slice. Hover the cursor over a portion of the chart and a tooltip with information about that slice also appears. By default, the chart appears only when there are alarms.
Page 101: Expanded Alarm Portlet
Configuring the Alarms Chart Turn the chart on or off in the Settings screen’s Chart Options panel. If no data exists for the chart and the Chart option is on, the portlet returns to “no-chart” mode. When you enable the chart Filtering is disabled since the chart, in effect, provides the filter.
Page 102 This displays listed alarms and Snap Panel details of a selected alarm. By default this screen adds the first of the following columns to those visible in the Event History’s summary screen view. To add the others listed here, right click, and select Add Columns to change the screen appearance. The following are available additional columns, besides those visible in the Alarms summary portlet: Count—...
Page 103 Send Email. Clicking Cancel ends this operation without sending e-mail. See SMTP Configuration on page 69 for instructions about setting up e-mail from Dell OpenManage Network Manager. See Alarm Email on page 104 for an example of what the content looks like.
Page 104 Share with User—Selecting this opens a screen where you can select the user you want to send the selected alarm, and can enter a message you want to send with it. See Sharing on page 87. Clicking Share Asset sends a chat message to the selected user with a link that opens to display the Alarm Snap Panels for the selected item.
Page 105 Entity Name Entity Type Entity Description = Equipment Region = SUPDEMOPartition Location Assigned By = OWSystem Date Assigned = Thu Dec 16 10:40:24 PST 2010 Assigned User = qatester Acknowledged = false Ack By Ack Time Cleared By Date Cleared MIB Text = Monitor session was skipped due to resource constraints.
Page 106: Event History
Event History Not all events appear as alarms. Event History preserves all event information for your system. The initial portlet view displays an icon whose color reflects any alarm state associated with the event. It also displays the Receive Time, Entity Name, Device IP, and Event Name. You can right- click to Share with User in this screen.
Page 107 Location—The location of the equipment emitting the event. SubType— A classification for the event. For example: Trap. Protocol—The protocol that delivered the event. Frequently: System, indicating Dell OpenManage Network Manager itself delivered it. Notification OID—The object identifier (OID) for the event type.
Page 108: Event Processing Rules
Modifying or creating rules opens Rule Editor. See How to: Create Event Processing Rules for steps to create these rules. When you Copy an event processing rule, Dell OpenManage Network Manager generates a new name, but you must change that name before you save the event processing rule.
Page 109: How To: Create Event Processing Rules
Expanded Event Processing Rules Portlet The expanded portlet displays additional columns. Details about selected rules appear in the snap- in panels at the bottom of this screen. The Reference Tree panel displays the selected rule’s connection to events. The Rule Actions list any configured actions associated with the rule.
Page 110 Settings on page 112, Syslog Escalation Criteria on page 115, and Actions on page 116 for more about the differences available between rule types. For this example, we select Pre-Processing > Device Access. The Rule Editor screen appears. Enter a Name to identify the rule, an optional Description, and check Enabled if you want this rule to begin working immediately.
Page 111: Rule Editor
The Device Access example creates a specific device access event for user login, logout, login failure or configuration change. Select the Access Type (Config Change, Login Failure, User Login, User Logout) from the pick list for that field. Enter the User Name Variable and/or User Name RegEx match string in those fields. This confines rule response to the selected users.
Page 112 85 for more about this feature. After you Add Filter the button changes to Clear Filter so you can remove any filter from the event rule. Dell OpenManage Network Manager supports multiple IP addresses per resource. During event processing, filters that include IP address criteria may behave incorrectly when Dell OpenManage Network Manager evaluates the filter.
Page 113 Publish frequency start and stop notifications if you want it to register for Dell OpenManage Network Manager. If you Reject an event, it does not appear in Event history; if you Publish it, however, listeners for that event will “hear” it.
Page 114 After you select the event and filtering, enter the Interval (seconds), the Action (Reject or Suppress the event) and check Publish Event if you want it to register for Dell OpenManage Network Manager. If you Reject an event, it does not appear in Event history; if you Publish it, however, listeners for that event will “hear”...
Page 115 Syslog Escalation Criteria This tab of Syslog Event Rules lets you manage events based on matching text, and configure messages in response to such matches. Criteria: Syslog Match Text In this tab, enter the Syslog Match Text. Click the plus to add matching text to the list below the Message Match Text field.
Page 116 Message Template—The configuration of the message when sent. For example: the template %1 occurred on %3 for %2 creates a message with the first message pattern retrieved, followed by the third, then the second within the specified text. Message Test This screen lets you test your message against the pattern and/or template.
Page 117 Click Apply to accept configured actions, or Cancel to abandon their editor and return to this screen. Actions available here are like those for Discovery Profiles on page 153. Forward Northbound When you want to forward an SNMP v2 event (trap) to another host, then configure automation in this screen to do that.
Page 118 Trap Forwarding Process SNMPv1 and SNMPv3 traps become SNMPv2 Traps SNMPv1 traps are converted according to RFC 1908. SNMPv3 traps are already in SNMPv2 format and the application simply does not use SNMPv3 security when sending these northbound. The following is the relevant snippet from RFC 1908: 3.1.2.
Page 119 If sending as proxy, the trap is forwarded from application server using the application server IP as sourceIP. The relevant snippet from SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB is the following: -- The snmpTrapAddress and snmpTrapCommunity objects are included -- in notifications that are forwarded by a proxy, which were -- originally received as SNMPv1 Trap messages.
Page 120 Dell OpenManage Network Manager always adds snmpTrapAddress to every trap forwarded as proxy, (never adding snmpTrapCommunity). It does not keep track of the community string on the traps received. Email Email actions configure destinations and messages for e-mail and SMS recipients. You can include fields that are part of the event by using the variables described in Email Action Variables on page 122.
Page 121 Work Email, Home Email or Other Email fields in the Contact editor. SMS messages go to the Pager Email field for the contact. If a Contact was not found or the required addresses are not specified for the Contact, then Dell OpenManage Network Manager uses the Recipent addresses configured in the the Email Action.
Page 122: Email Action Variables
Action field. Select an action by clicking on its appearance in that list. Select the device target of the custom action by selecting from the Target pick list. If you do not specify an explicit target, Dell OpenManage Network Manager uses the default entity for the event as the target.
Page 123 • Entity Type: Port • Entity Type: Interface, Logical interface CAUTION: To successfully retrieve Custom attributes, you must first create them. See Edit Custom Attributes on page 89. You can also configure more limited variables that are slightly more efficient in performance, if not as detailed as those described in the following section.
Page 124 The following section describes variables whose use may have a performance impact. Managed Equipment Variables Attribute Description Email Action Variable Custom 1 Note that although you {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Cu can re-name any Custom stom1} attribute, you must use the variable’s original name. For example here, that is {RedCell.Config.Equipm entManager_Custom1}...
Page 125 Attribute Description Email Action Variable Equipment Type Equipment Type {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Co mmonType} Firmware Version Version of the {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Fir equipment’s firmware mwareVersion} Hardware Version Version of the {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Har equipment’s hardware dwareVersion} Last Backup Last Backup {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Las tBackup} Last Configuration Last Configuration {RedCell.Config.EquipmentManager_Las Change Change tConfigChange}...
Page 126 Attribute Description Email Action Variable Custom 4 {RedCell.Config.Port_Custom4} Encapsulation Encapsulation {RedCell.Config.Port_Encapsulation} Hardware Version Version of the port’s {RedCell.Config.Port_HardwareVersion hardware If Index SNMP If Index {RedCell.Config.Port_IfIndex} MAC Address “Typically a MAC Address, {RedCell.Config.Port_UniqueAddress} with the octets separated by a space, colon or dash depending upon the device.
Page 127 Entity Type: Interface, Logical interface Attribute Description Redcell Email Action variable Custom 1 Note that although you {RedCell.Config.Interface_Custom1} can re-name any Custom attribute, you must use the variable’s original name. For example here, that is {RedCell.Config.Equipm entManager_Custom1} Custom 2 {RedCell.Config.Interface_Custom2} Custom 3 {RedCell.Config.Interface_Custom3} Custom 4...
Page 128: Event Definitions
Event Definitions You can define how the system treats messages (events) coming into the system. Administrators can define event behavior deciding whether it is suppressed, rejected or generates an Alarm. Manage the definitions of events in this portlet. In this screen, you can configure events that, when correlated as described in Event Processing Rules on page 108, trigger actions.
Page 129 General This tab manages basics for Event Definitions. It has the following fields: Event Name— A text identifier for the event. Notification OID— The object ID. Severity—The severity of any associated alarm. If a new alarm is a clearing severity, then it closes any existing alarm to which it correlates.
Page 130 This means alarm correlation removes any existing calculated alarm against the link. If you upgrade Dell OpenManage Network Manager, all alarms migrated to from previous versions appear as service-effecting, regardless of severity. To alter multiple events’ impact propagation, export the event definitions, and alter the XML export to reflect the kind of propagation desired for events.
Page 131 Message Template This panel lets you view or alter MIB Text, Bindings and the Message Template for the event selected. This contains three sections: MIB Text—A read-only reminder of the MIB contents for this OID. Bindings in Event— A read-only reminder of the MIB bindings for this event. This displays the varbind contents of the event, matching the Binding Object Name and the OID (object identifier).
Page 132 If a message template exists for an existing, correlated alarm and the generated text does not match the original alarm, then Dell OpenManage Network Manager closes the existing alarm, and generates a new one. Leaving this blank transmits the original message.
Page 133: Contacts
Delete— Displays a mapping of the selected contact’s association to devices. Visualize—Displays a mapping of the selected contact’s association to devices. Dell OpenManage Network Manager only retrieves Contact and Location information on initial discovery. You can modify these once the resource is under management. However doing will not modify the any system information on the device.
Page 134 Contacts Editor This editor has two panels where you can enter contact information (Name, Address, Phone, and so on). Click the tabs at the top of this screen to move between the panels. The Contact ID, a unique identifier for the contact in your system, is a required field at the top of the...
Page 135: Locations
Locations In its summary form, the locations portlet displays configured locations in your system. You can right-click to create, modify or remove (New, Open, Delete) the selected location. See Location Editor description below for more about editing or creating locations. If you select Visualize, a map of the selected location’s connection to equipment appears.
Page 136 Location Editor When you click New or Open, an editor appears. The Name field is mandatory. Name—A unique name for the Location. If you alter the name of an existing location already in use by existing equipment, the editor creates a new location.
Page 137 Expanded Location Portlet The location portlet displays a list of all locations, with Snap Panels to display a selected location’s connection to the network and details. The New menu option appears in the expanded location portlet. Click Settings to change the column appearance (see Show / Hide / Reorder Columns on page 84).
Page 138: Tag
When creating a location, Dell OpenManage Network Manager automatically selects the latitude and longitude of the address entered for a location. To update or make these more accurate, select Update Location by right-clicking a location in the Locations portlet. The location created by default is the address entered in the Locations editor. You can also enter the address in the Search field, or click and drag the marker that appears on this screen.
Page 139: Vendors
Vendors In its summary form, this portlet displays the available vendors for network resources. Right-clicking a row lets you do the following: New / Edit—Opens the Vendor Editor where you can configure or re-configure a vendor. Details—Displays a panel showing the alarms, registered models, and identifiers for the selected vendor.
Page 140 Enterprise —A numeric identifier for the vendor. Vendor Icon— Select an icon from the pick list. Contact Click the Add button to select from contacts in Dell OpenManage Network Manager to associate with this vendor. See Contacts on page 133 for instructions about configuring contacts.
Page 141 Vendors Snap Panel The snap panel displays the icon for the selected vendor. Vendors | Key Portlets...
Page 142 Vendors | Key Portlets...
Page 143: Resource Management
Resource Management The Resource management portlets let you manage devices you have discovered or created on your network. Resource Management portlets let you view device-specific information, both general (name, type, location, contact) and technical (vendor, subcomponents, and so on). This chapter contains information about the following portlets: •...
Page 144 Audit— Opens an audit trail viewer for the selected authentication. Delete— Deletes the selected authentication. If it is in use, an error message appears saying that deletion is not allowed. Import / Export—Imports or exports authentications to your Dell OpenManage Network Manager system. Authentication Editor You can right-click and select New or Open to create or modify credentials for your system.
Page 145 Expanded Authentication Portlet The Settings button in the expanded Authentication portlet lets you configure column appearance (see Show / Hide / Reorder Columns on page 84). This offers the same column setup as the summary screen. Authentication Snap Panel When you select a listed authentication the Reference Tree Snap Panel displays a tree of that authentication’s connections to Discovery profiles and equipment.
Page 146: Container Manager
Container Manager Container manager lets you create, edit and delete Container tree models displayed in Container Views (described in the next section). The relationship to users and devices appears in Container Manager Expanded. Right-click to select from a menu with New, Edit and Delete , and Refresh Members .
Page 147: Container View
Container View This (non-instanceable) container portlet displays configured containers for Dell OpenManage Network Manager. Because it is non-instanceable, only one can appear on a page. Expand the container tree by clicking the plus to each container’s left. The container selected acts as a filter for a screen’s other Dell OpenManage Network Manager portlets.
Page 148: Container Editor
Container Editor This editor lets you create and manage containers. You can also associate user authorizations with container models to specify which groups or users have access to contained items. In this editor, a tree panel on the left lets you build and navigate the container tree. Click Add Child (or Delete Child) to create (or remove) a node to / from the node you have selected in the tree.
Page 149 Container membership defines the inventory items that are in a container. You can select either a Static membership, which cannot change, or a Dynamic one, based on a filter. When Dell OpenManage Network Manager evaluates the filter it adds the resulting items as members in the container.
Page 150 Authorizations This tab configures user or group access to the container you are editing. Click Add User or Add Group to select the users or groups with permission to access the container you are configuring. By default containers are accessible to everyone. Each entry in the Container Authorizations list specifies the name of the user or group, and whether the entry is inherited or not.
Page 151: Map Context
Map Context In addition to displaying filtered-by-container portlets, you can view discovered devices in the Map Context portlet, automatically placed by location. Notice that you can move the center of the map with the arrows in its upper left corner above the zoom in / out (+/-) buttons.
Page 152: Resource Discovery
Map Context without Containers If a page has no containers then the Map Context can act like a container too. It displays all tagged resources within the system (see Tag on page 90). Clicking on a tagged item behaves like clicking a Container, confining displayed resources, alarms, and so on, to those for the selected tag.
Page 153: Discovery Profiles
When Dell OpenManage Network Manager discovers unknown devices, it examines the RFC1213 MIB for hints of the device's capabilites, determining if it looks similar to a layer 3 router or a layer 2 switch. Since some device can do both, Dell OpenManage Network Manager classifies such ambiguous devices as routers.
Page 154: Discovery Profile Editor
The remaining menu items include Import, Export Selection, Export All and (if other users exist in the system) Share with User. NOTE: Dell OpenManage Network Manager discovers Aruba Access points through the controllers to which they connect; discovery does not find stand-alone access points. Discovery Profile Editor This editor lets you create or modify profiles.
Page 155 Hostname(s), ICMP Ping Device(s), Manage ICMP-only Device(s), or Manage Unclassified Device(s) . This last checkbox determines whether OpenManage Network Manager attempts to manage devices that have no OpenManage Network Manager device driver installed. If your system’s license permits it, such management may be possible, but more limited than for devices with drivers installed.
Page 156 (described below), and Execute triggers the discovery profile and opens the Results panel, displaying message traffic between Dell OpenManage Network Manager and the device(s). Click the “X” in the top right corner of these screens to close them without saving.
Page 157 Dell OpenManage Network Manager assumes it is the starting IP address for the range. If you specify an address in the middle of the subnetwork then Dell OpenManage Network Manager may discover devices outside of that subnetwork. This also means that IP addresses in the network that precede the specified address are not discovered.
Page 158 which credentials are tried (top first). Ordering only applies when two credentials are of the same type. If you have imported a discovery profile without importing or creating the authentications it uses, editing authentications is an exercise in frustration. If you cannot import authentications, or have not created them when you do attempt to edit them, the easiest solution is to delete the un-imported un-created authentication the profile refers to and create a new one.
Page 159 select an item, if it has parameters, they appear listed below that item. Use the check- box(es) or pick list to configure these parameters, then click Apply to select this action as part of the profile. See Actions on page 116 for more about these. Edit, Delete, Move—These icons appear to the right of each action.
Page 160 “Fix it” button. Save—Click Save to preserve the profile. You can then right-click it to select Execute . If you select Execute from the profile editor, Dell OpenManage Network Manager does not save the profile to execute later.
Page 161 Results Execute—Clicking Execute begins discovery, and the message traffic between Dell OpenManage Network Manager and the device appears on the Results screen. This produces a standard Audit Trail / Jobs Screen screen displaying the message traffic. See also Audit Trail / Jobs Screen on page 91 for more about retrieving archives of such screens.
Page 162: Managed Resource Groups
Managed Resource Groups These groups make acting on several devices at once more convenient, making management of groups of devices possible. The summary screen displays columns describing the group Name, Type, and Icon . You can also right-click to do the following: New—...
Page 163 File Management > Backup, Restore, Deploy— Lets you call on Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s NetConfig configuration file backup, restore and deploy capabilities. See Backup Configurations on page 225 for an example of the steps this follows. See also File Management on page 223 and more about deploying updates to the OS for the selected resource group.
Page 164: Static Group
Dell OpenManage Network Manager does not supports static groups that include members retrieved by (dynamic) filters. You can configure membership with dynamic resource groups that include group memberships as filter criteria. For example you can create a filter for members of ResourceGroupABC or members of ResourceGroupXYZ.
Page 165: Dynamic Group
Dynamic Group In contrast to Static Groups, Dynamic Groups do not let you select individual equipment. You simply configure a filter, and OpenManage Network Manager creates the group on the fly. After you enter the Name and Category for the group, create the filter.
Page 166: Managed Resources
Managed Resources The Managed Resources summary portlet displays the discovered devices on your network, their Network Status, Severity (of their highest recent alarm), Equipment Name, IP Address, and Vendor Name . Hovering the cursor over a listed device’s IP address produces a popup with its alarm status in the headline (both severity name and color), the % CPU, % Memory, and Ping.
Page 167 • Management Interface Click Save to preserve any changes made in these screens to Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s database, or Close to abandon any changes made in editor screens. Unless the device is a printer, changes to these screens typically make database changes, not changes on the device.
Page 168 Management Interface This lists the management interfaces for the selected device, including the IP Address, Port, Retries, and Timeout. Notice you can Add interfaces with the button in the upper right corner. Authentication This lists the authentications for the selected device. You can Add authentications with the button in the upper right corner too.
Page 169 Details— Displays several panels with detailed resource information. These include Alarms, Performance Indicators graphs , Ports, Audit Trail, Interfaces, Associated Link(s), Latest Configurations . and a Details panel with model and other information. A Network Details panel displays VLAN(s) by ID, VLAN(s) by Port, or STP Data . Click the button in the upper right corner of the panel to select among those options Notice that you can right-click listed interfaces, configuration files, and so on to perform more actions.
Page 170 You can Start Alarm Suppression (Stop appears, once you have started suppression) , Stop All Alarm Suppression, Schedule Alarm Suppression, View Active Suppression(s), and Resync Alarms (corrects Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s display to match the latest information from the device already in the database). Event Management — This lets you suppress or update alarms related to the selected resource.
Page 171 Dell OpenManage Network Manager issues no alerts when resync occurs. When you Start alarm suppression, first enter a description in a subsequent screen, then a Success / Failure message appears confirming suppression has started.
Page 172 Performance—Select from the following options: Show Performance–This displays a dashboard with various performance metrics for the selected device. These can include packet counts, RTT (round-trip time) measure- ments, and CPU / Memory utilization graphs. See Dashboard Views on page 277 for more about re-using and managing these capabil- ities.
Page 173 Managed Resources Expanded If you click the plus (+) in the upper right corner of the summary screen, this expanded screen appears. As in all such screens, you can limit what appears listed with the filters at the top of the screen.
Page 174 Enabled [Operable and available for use] Active [Device is operable and currently in use with operating capacity available to support further services] Busy [Operable and currently in use with no operating capacity to spare])OpenManage Network Manager. Managed Resources | Resource Management...
Page 175: New Link
Network Details This displays network information like VLAN(s) by ID, VLAN(s) by Port and STP Data . Use the pick list in the upper right corner of this snap panel to select which to display. Utilization Summary A graph of the device utilization, typically for CPU, Disk I/O, Memory and ping rate. Bandwidth Utilization A graph of the device’s bandwidth utilization.
Page 176: Link Discovery
Link Discovery This is an automated network link discovery feature that you can initiate from individual devices in the Managed Resources portlet, or with the Link Discovery button on the home screen. See Link Discovery Prerequisites on page 177 for a list of device features that provide link information. Links discovered can also appear in the screen described in Links in Visualization on page 220.
Page 177 The Job Viewer tab in the link discovery screen displays the message traffic between Dell OpenManage Network Manager and the device(s). See Audit Trail Portlet on page 93 for more about Job Viewer screens.
Page 178: Equipment Details
Equipment Details This screen lets you “drill down” to display equipment details for resources. You can see it by selecting Details in the right-click menu for the Managed Resources portlet. You can also install an Equipment Details portlet on a page and use the Container View portlet to select individual devices that appear in it.
Page 179: Performance Indicators
Details screens are available for a variety of things besides equipment, too. The Equipment Details screen (and others) can have the following sub-panels: • Performance Indicators • Interfaces • Top Configuration Backups (see Top Configuration Backups on page 277) • Alarms •...
Page 180: Interfaces
Interfaces This panel displays interfaces on the selected device. Notice that you can right-click these to display additional details, or to share this list with another user. You can right-click to Share an interface’s information, or to open a Interfaces > Details screen.
Page 181: Alarms
Alarms The alarm panel in Equipment Details displays alarms connected to the selected equipment. You can right-click these and Acknowledge, Clear , or Email the selected alarm. You can also Assign User and Share with User. Hover the cursor over an alarm and a popup appears with that alarm’s details just as described in Alarms on page 99.
Page 182 Ports > Links When you add or edit a link, the Link Details screen appears. It contains the following fields: Link Name—An identifier for the link Link Type—Select the type of link to create in the pick list. A / Z Endpoint Resource—Select a resource for the A or Z endpoint A / Z Endpoint Address—...
Page 183 Ports > Details You can right-click to Share port information, or to open a Details screen for the selected port. This includes the device’s Reference Tree so you can see this port in relation to other parts of the device. It also includes a Details panel that can include the following fields: Hardware Version—The port’s hardware version...
Page 184 Disabled—Inoperable because of a fault, or resources are unavailable. Enabled—Operable and available for use. Active—Device is operable and currently in use with operating capacity available to support further services. Busy—Operable and currently in use with no operating capacity to spare. IP Address—The port’s IP address Hardware Version—The port’s hardware version MAC Address—...
Page 185: Details
Details This panel displays detailed information about the equipment selected. This can include the following fields: Serial Number— The selected resource’s serial number. Last Configuration— The date for the last backed-up configuration file. Change— The date for the last configuration file change. System Object ID—The SysObjectID of the resource.
Page 186: How To: Schedule Actions
The appearance of Network Status depends on the default ICMP monitor (see Resource Monitors on page 245. If you exclude this equipment from the monitor or disable it (for example, for performance reasons) then a status may appear, but it is not meaningful. Creator—...
Page 187 Once you click Apply on this panel, the previous panel returns, the Add Schedule button now appearing as Edit Schedule . If you click Save, Dell OpenManage Network Manager creates a scheduled item around the activity and its data. A row also appears in the screen described in Schedules Portlet on page 95 for this schedule.
Page 188: Direct Access
As part of the Direct Access menu, the MIB Browser lets you examine SNMP data available about devices. The screen that opens when you select this option displays MIBs available in Dell OpenManage Network Manager in a tree on the left. Notice that a pick list at the top of the left column narrows what appears in the tree.
Page 189 Select a MIB and expand it to see the contents for a selected node appear on the right. In addition to the Device Results tab, which displays what the currently selected device uses from the MIB, the MIB Information tab displays the parameters available for the selected node. Notice that the Description, Comments, Notification Variables, and Valid Values tabs appear at the bottom of this screen.
Page 190: Terminal
A green icon in the lower right corner indicates the device is online, while the IP address of the device appears in title bar. The IP address of Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s server also appears in the lower left corner, when the connection is active.
Page 191: Ping (Icmp)
Ping (ICMP) Select this option from the Direct Access menu to initiate ICMP ping, and to display a progress bar, and graph of the selected device’s ping responses. Alternatively, an error message can appear describing the device’s lack of response. When ping responds in less than one millisecond, results appear in a table with <1ms entries.
Page 192 Port Details This screen displays all the port’s settings that have been retrieved, including a Reference Tree of logical interfaces below the port, a Learned MAC Address panel, Alarms related to the port, and other Details. In Details, fields describing the following for the selected port: Hardware Version, Port Description, Model, Date Created (typically, this is the date discovered) , Creator, Port Type, Encapsulation, Subnet Mask, Install Date, In Use, If Index, Container Index, Slot Number, Speed, MTU (maximum transmission unit), Port Icon, Learned MAC Addr, Count, CLI Name, Notes,...
Page 193 Ports Expanded Clicking the plus (+) in the upper right corner of the summary screen displays this expanded view of available ports. The Settings button lets you configure columns that appear and their order. The available columns for this view include many related to the attributes that appear in Port Details on page 192, above. This screen also includes a Reference Tree displaying a tree of the selected port’s relationship to logical interfaces and monitors.
Page 194: Port Editor
Port Editor When you right-click a port, and select Edit this screen appears. It has the following fields: General Details Name—An identifier for the port. Port Description— A text description for the port. Install Date— The date this port was installed.
Page 195: Report Templates
Port Details - Settings Encapsulation— An identifier for the port. MTU— The size of the maximum transmission unit. Speed—The port’s speed. Subnet Mask—Any subnet mask associated with the port. In Use — Checked if the port is in use. IF Index—The port’s SNMP If Index number. NOTE: The polling frequency is once-an-hour.
Page 196: Report Template Editors
Click Save. You have successfully created a template. Report Template Editors Dell OpenManage Network Manager has several report template editors. Creating a New template, can make Comparison, Table and Trend templates. This editor has General, Inventory, and Layout tabs.
Page 197 If you view H1 you see Template T’ is in use and this template creates a report with columns A, B and D. Unfortunately, H1 only has data for columns A, B and C, so the report created has data for columns A and B only.
Page 198 ge/0/1/4 Down The same report looks like this with Group on First Attribute enabled: Device Name Gig/e Port Name Health Status ge/0/0/1 ge/0/0/2 Down ge/0/0/3 ge/0/0/4 Unknown ge/0/1/1 ge/0/1/2 Starting ge/0/1/3 ge/0/1/4 Down The Inventory and Layout tabs are common to all editors. Inventory Select the type of inventory for a report, and its data types in this screen.
Page 199 Click the green plus (+) to select the Inventory Type. The types of data available for that inventory type appear in the leftmost column in this screen. Click on a Selected Type to see its Available Columns . Click the arrows to move columns from Available to Selected. The Selected Columns appear in the template’s report.
Page 200: Reports
Click Save to preserve any template you have configured, or Close to close the editor screens without saving. Reports This portlet’s summary screen lists the available reports that you can run with Dell OpenManage Network Manager. The report Icon, Name, Template, and Subtitle appear in the columns in this summary screen.
Page 201 This is an artifact of the Acrobat plug-in, and outside the scope of Dell OpenManage Network Manager to influence. Acrobat also produces an error if a report has too much data to display meaningfully.
Page 202 These include the following: Report Email / Export Type— Select the export file type from the pick list. Options include CSV, HTML, PDF, XLS, and XLSM. Overwrite Existing—Check to activate overwriting any existing report. Save— Check to activate saving the report to the database. Notify—Check to activate emitting a notification event.
Page 203 Expanded Reports Portlet Clicking the plus (+) icon displays the expanded portlet, which adds Add / Remove Column to the menu options available in the summary screen. Available columns are the same as the summary screen’s. The Reference Tree snap panel displays the selected report’s connection to devices, historical reports and any report template.
Page 204: How To: Generate A Report
How To: Generate a Report The following steps configure, then generate, a report. In the Reports portlet, right-click and select New. Name the report (for example: Test Powerconnect Router Report) Enter a title / subtitle for the report (“Powerconnect Routers”) Select a template for the report in the pick list.
Page 205 General This screen configures the Name, Title (displayed text in the report), Subtitle, and lets you select the Report Template for the report (see Report Templates on page 195 for more about them) Filter This screen configures a filter to retrieve devices that are the source of the report.
Page 206: Branding Reports
Once you have configured or selected a filter, the Filter panel displays its characteristics in tree form. Click Edit to re-open the editor, or Del to remove the filter. NOTE: Filters appear only for the entity type of your Report template. Branding Reports Reports come with a default logo, but you can change that, as is illustrated in the above screen.
Page 207: Visualize My Network
Visualize My Network The Visualize My Network portlet displays discovered devices, mapping them in relationship to each other. It also lets you store and retrieve views you have arranged, as well as configure the default view (see VIEW DETAILS on page 213 for more about these capabilities). How To: Create a Visualization Creating a topology map of devices or services is as simple as right-clicking the item(s) you want to...
Page 208: Configuring Views
Configuring Views Click and drag displayed portions of this screen to see other parts of the topology. To move the display more, click in the OVERVIEW panel. You can also expand / collapse the panels on the left of the screen by clicking their title bars. (Figures below display them expanded.) Hover the cursor over an icon or link between icons to see a small screen describing its contents and alarm state.
Page 209 • OVERVIEW Click on the title bars when these appear collapsed on the left of the screen to expand them. Click the blue left arrow at the top of them to re-collapse them. In addition to the screen components immediately displayed, you can right-click an icon or component, and Drill in or Expand a device to see its subcomponents.
Page 210: Control And Styles
The Action Tree panel displays the available actions. The Action Search panel lets you enter a desired action and search for it. Select an action and click Execute to implement it. Click Cancel to dismiss this screen without running any action. Control and Styles •...
Page 211 Click the Apply Filtering button to implement your configuration, or Cancel to dismiss this screen without applying it. STYLE OPTIONS This tab’s options configure node and line appearance. It displays the following when you click buttons in this panel. Notice the fist two have Tooltips tabs in addition to the first one you see: Node Style Options—Configure how nodes appear in topology.
Page 212 Edge Style Options—This lets you configure the colors on connections between icons. First, click to Enable Edge Labels. To have the edge reflect speeds, you can then elect Layer 2 Speed Styling (enable Use Style Overrides). Select colors for speeds by clicking the lower right corner of the colored boxes that appear next to speed range labels.
Page 213: Data / Node Finder
Name and enter a Description for the view you are saving. You can also configure a saved view for Dell OpenManage Network Manager to Use as Default, so it appears by default whenever you see a topology view.
Page 214 GRAPH INVENTORY This displays a legend of icon types followed by a count (in parentheses) of how many of each appear in the topology. The switch at the bottom of this panel centers the display around the selected icon. Click the plus (+) to the left of the inventory category icons to display a list of devices in that category in the topology.
Page 215 Icons The the icons next to listed devices mean the following: Icon Type Explanation Alarm This shows the alarm state of the devices listed. In a composite list, like appears in Inventory, it shows the highest alarm state. Indeterminate No alarm information is available for this device. Status Green means the device is Online, red means Offline, and yellow means indeterminate.
Page 216: Layout
Layout The layout tab lets you select and configure the type of automated node layout that appears in the topology display. Under CURRENT LAYOUT, use the pick list to select the type of layout. The fields and selectors that appear below depend on the selection. Here are the available layouts, and the fields that go with them: Balloon Balloon layouts display links between managed objects in a balloon tree...
Page 217 Even angle distribution–Enable even angle distribution of nodes. Cluster Policy–Select Vertical or Horizontal. This determines the (automated) orientation of the topology. Remember, you can click and drag device icons. Cluster Spacing—Use the slider to determine the spacing between icons not in child / parent hierarchy.
Page 218 Circular Circular layouts arrange all nodes in a circle. Minimal circle radius – Use the slider to determine the radius of the circle. Minimal nodes spacing– Use the slider to determine the nodes spacing. Wedge Angle –Use the slider to determine the arc where child nodes appear.
Page 219: Overview
Basic Spring Basic Spring is an algorithm attempts to produce a natural layout that optimizes a spread out topology. Optimal Edge Length– Use the slider to determine the distance between nodes. Cluster Policy –Select from Horizontal or Vertical. Cluster Spacing—Use the slider to determine the spacing between icons not in child / parent hierarchy.
Page 220: Links In Visualization
Hover the cursor over a link, and a panel appears with the link information (Name, Type (for example: Ethernet), A / Z Names for the endpoints). NOTE: Dell OpenManage Network Manager currently does not support displaying one-ended links. Links in Visualization | Visualize My Network...
Page 221: File Servers
Delete— Removes the selected file server from the list. This appears for External File Servers only. NOTE: You can select whether Dell OpenManage Network Manager is in Internal or External File Server Mode with the radio buttons at the top of this portlet. Checking Show All Servers displays the internal file server.
Page 222: File Server Editor
Notice that you can now configure an IP address used by Dell OpenManage Network Manager, and another External IP Address used by the devices. If you configure multiple file servers, Dell OpenManage Network Manager selects the server with the Net Mask whose subnet is closest to the device(s) with which it communicates.
Page 223: File Management
• If you select a single config file of version two or higher, comparison is an option. When selected, OpenManage Network Manager automatically compares against the prior version for that device and file name. •...
Page 224 You can also compare two different configurations (Selected Config and Labeled Current / Live Config) in the tabs that appear on this screen. with the Compare Files tab at the top. Close the screen with the buttons at its bottom. Notice you can also Backup or Restore what you are viewing with buttons at the bottom of the screen.
Page 225: How To: Backup Configurations
During that time, you can pint the device; however, Dell OpenManage Network Manager cannot log in to the device until the reboot is complete.
Page 226 Here are the steps to back up a device: Make sure you have configured an FTP or TFTP server to handle the backup. See Netrestore File Servers on page 70. Right-click a device in the Managed Resources portlet. Select File Management > Backup. Configure the subsequent Backup Device screen.
Page 227: How To: Restore Configurations
See Scheduling Actions on page 369. Execute performs the backup immediately. The Results tab in this screen opens, displaying the message traffic between Dell OpenManage Network Manager and the device(s). See Audit Trail Portlet on page 93.
Page 228 See Scheduling Actions on page 369. Execute performs the restoration immediately. The Results tab in this screen opens, displaying the message traffic between Dell OpenManage Network Manager and the device(s). See Audit Trail Portlet on page 93.
Page 229: Configuration Files
Archive— Save the selected file to disk, and optionally delete it from this list. Import / Export—Export the selected config file to disk, or import it from disk. Delete— Removes the file from the Dell OpenManage Network Manager database without exporting it.
Page 230 The Labeled column appears with green or red icons depending on whether the config file has a label. When a label applies to a configuration, you cannot Delete or Archive it. The Labels Using Config File snap-in displays all labels connected to the selected configuration file, and the date on which that connection was made.
Page 231 Configuration File Editor This editor lets you manually edit configuration files, and save them to the Dell OpenManage Network Manager database. When you select a file in the Configuration Files portlet, and right-click to select Edit, this screen appears with the following features.
Page 232 File Management | File Servers...
Page 233: Image Repository
For this to function, you must have enabled a server, as described in File Management on page 223. Download Firmware For— Some devices (typically Dell) support downloading firmware from the internet. These devices appear listed in a sub-menu. Select the type for which you want to download OS images, and Dell OpenManage Network Manager automatically downloads them.
Page 234 Expanded Image Repository portlet. When you click the plus, this portlet expands to display the OS images list, a snap panel Reference tree of the connections to devices, and another panel listing the files within the selected image. Image Repository |...
Page 235: Firmware Image Editor
Firmware Image Editor When you open or create an OS image, its configuration appears in this editor. The General Parameters tab contains its OS Image Name, Description, Version, and the Device Class and Device Family. The Image Files tab displays a selector that lets you create new OS Images, retrieving files from the local file system (Import from Disk) or a URL (Import from URL).
Page 236: Configuration Image Editor
Configuration Image Editor This editor appears for new configuration images, or for configurations you Promote in the Configuration Files portlet for mass restoration. This screen has the following tabs: • General Parameters • Configuration General Parameters In this screen you can name and describe the configuration file, and configure a filter to screen restoration targets.
Page 237 Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s database into the restored configuration file. For example, if a Contact appears in the file, delete the specifics retrieved from a particular device’s config and double-click the Target Param “Contact.” Dell OpenManage Network Manager inserts $_EquipmentManager_RedCell_Config_EquipmentManager_Contact (a unique identifier for the database’s Contact field) wherever you put the cursor.
Page 238: Deploy Firmware
Now, when you deploy this config file to the devices that pass the filter in the General Parameters editor screen, Dell OpenManage Network Manager first updates this parameter with discovered data retrieved from the device before restoring the configuration. This facilitates deploying the same config to many devices while retaining individual Target Params like contacts, DNS Hostname, and so on.
Page 239: How To: Deploy Firmware
See Schedule Actions on page 186. Execute performs the backup immediately. The Results tab in this screen opens, displaying the message traffic between Dell OpenManage Network Manager and the device(s). See Audit Trail Portlet on page 93.
Page 240: Deploy Configuration
Deploy Configuration When you deploy a configuration, a screen appears to configure how that occurs. It has the following fields: Select Firmware Image Firmware Image—The identifier for the image Description— The description for the image Version—The version for the image Generate and Save Configuration Only—Check this if you simply want to configure for later restoration.
Page 241: How To: Restore A Single Configuration To Many Target Devices
Click Save, Execute or Add Schedule depending on your desired outcome. If you click Execute, you will have to confirm this action. When Dell OpenManage Network Manager performs the restoration (deploy), it reads the Target Params from those discovered for each device, inserts those in the config file, then restores it, device by device, skipping any that do not pass the filter set up in step 4.
Page 242 Deploy Configuration |...
Page 243: Monitoring
• Create an ICMP Monitor • Create a Key Metrics Monitor • Create a Simple Dashboard View You can see Performance Options from a variety of locations by right-clicking in Dell OpenManage Network Manager. For example: How to’s | Monitoring...
Page 244: Openmanage Network Manager Server Statistics
The graphs in this portlet do not start at zero (0), so the bars may appear out of proportion. The total of Used plus Free memory may appear to be much smaller than the Total Memory bar. OpenManage Network Manager Server Statistics | Monitoring...
Page 245: Resource Monitors
Resource Monitors This summary screen displays currently, active performance monitors in brief. The Name column displays the identifier for each monitor instance, Enable displays a green check if it is currently enabled, or a red minus if it is disabled. The Monitor Type column typically displays what the monitor covers.
Page 246 Details— Opens a Detail panel, with a reference tree, status summary, and general information about the selected monitor. Enable / Disable Monitor— Enables or disables the monitor. Only one of these options appears. Only enabled monitors report data (and demand resources), while disabled monitors do not. Refresh Monitor—Re-query to update any targets for the current monitor.
Page 247 Expanded Resource Monitor This screen appears when you click the plus in the upper right corner of the summary screen. As in most expanded views, this one displays a list ordered by the Name of the monitor. Click Settings to configure the column display. Available columns include those on the summary screen (Name, Enabled, Monitor Type) as well as Description, Poling Interval, Target Count and Retention Policy.
Page 248: Retention Policies
The Monitor Status Summary Snap Panel displays the status of each individual member (Target) of the monitor, showing the Last Polled time and date, and a title bar and icon indicating Availability (green is available, red is not). Hover the cursor over the Availability icon, and a popup appears with details about availability.
Page 249 To reduce resource impacts, the scope of retained data may exclude some of the collected data. A monitor may have no retained data and only emit events based on transient results in the execution/calculation. For example, the application can derive a metric from several collected values and you may opt to retain only the derived result.
Page 250 Editor Monitors may share a retention policy. The retention policy controls how long data is held per roll- up period. The editor for Retention policies lets you assign characteristics and monitors to them. General Retention Policy Options The editor contains the following fields: Policy Name—A text identifier for the policy.
Page 251: Monitor Editor
Click Save to preserve your edits, and include the monitor as listed among existing Retention Policies, or click Cancel to abandon any changes. Monitor Editor This editor lets you fine-tune the monitor you selected and right-clicked to open the editor. It includes the following panels and fields: •...
Page 252 ICMP monitor updates the network status after a selected number of consecutive failures. You can configure the monitor to generate an event in addition to updating network status, but Dell OpenManage Network Manager does not like the polling interval to be very small especially when monitoring many devices.
Page 253 If ping fails (an endpoint is down) and update network status is configured, then Dell OpenManage Network Manager tries to ping the switch/router in front of the endpoint to determine if that device is reachable. If that device also failed, then the endpoint’s status becomes indeterminate.
Page 254: Monitor Options
Monitor Options Monitor options contains two panels. The entity panel lets you select the monitor targets. The types of monitor entities allowed varies depending on the type of monitor. The second panel contains options specific to the monitor type being edited. The entity and options panels for the various types of monitors appear below in Monitor Options Type-Specific Panels on page 266.
Page 255 The Configured Metrics table lists the calculated metrics. An edit and delete action appears to the right of each row. The Add button creates a new calculated metric and the Remove All button deletes all the calculated metrics. Clicking on the Add button or edit button displays the calculation editor. This panel contains the following properties: Name—The attribute name to be displayed for the calculation Resource Monitors | Monitoring...
Page 256 Type— Calculation Type - Gauge or Counter Units—Units string to appear in graphs Max Value—Maximum value to be used in graphing (0 = no max) Formula— The formula for the calculation using the assigned formula codes from the metric attribute legend. Thresholds The thresholds panel allows the user to set threshold intervals on attributes in the monitor.
Page 257 The Add or Edit buttons open a threshold editor (blank or with existing, configured thresholds, respectively). Configure threshold intervals you Add at in the editor screen according to the following parameters. Attribute Name—Appears when you click Add rather than Editing a selected threshold. Use the pick list that appears in this screen to select the attribute for which you are specifying threshold information.
Page 258 Apply to Series — Check to enable on composite attributes only. Checking this applies the threshold to individual elements within the series. When it is unchecked, the threshold applies only to aggregate measurements (the overall value of the series), not individual elements within the series.
Page 259: Inventory Mappings
Threshold Graph Background If you configure a set of thresholds, the dashboard graph displaying the data monitored displays the threshold colors in the background. When an upper or lower threshold has no upper or lower bound, then those background colors may appear as white. Inventory Mappings The inventory mappings panel allows the user to associate any of several predefined inventory metrics with a monitor attribute.
Page 260 You can Add a new mapping with that button, or Remove All listed mappings with that button. You can also edit or delete listed mappings with the Action icons to the right of each row. Adding or editing opens the Inventory Mapping Editor. This lets you configure the following: Metric ID—Inventory metric name Attribute ID—...
Page 261 The editor has the following fields and settings to configure: Condition Properties Name— Enter a text identifier for the conditions. Alert— Check this if you want Dell OpenManage Network Manager to emit an alert when the monitor satisfies the conditions. Trendable— Check if the conditions specified are trendable.
Page 262: How To: Create An Snmp Interface Monitor
How To: Create an SNMP Interface Monitor To set up a typical performance monitor, follow these steps: In the Resource Monitors portlet, and create a new monitor by right-clicking and selecting New. Select the type of monitor from the submenu—for this example, an SNMP Interfaces monitor.
Page 263: How To: Create An Icmp Monitor
Attributes available depend on the type of monitor you are creating. Notice that you can also check to make crossing this threshold emit a notification (an alarm that would appear on the Alarm panel). You can also configure the type of calculation, and so on. You can even alter existing thresholds by selecting one then clicking Edit to the right of the selected threshold.
Page 264: How To: Create A Key Metrics Monitor
In the General screen, enter a name (Test ICMP Monitor), and a polling interval (5 minutes is the default). For this example, check Retain polled data and accept the remaining defaults for checkboxes and the retention policy. Select an entity to monitor by clicking the Add button in the top portion of the Monitor Options screen.
Page 265: How To: Create A Monitor Report
Test Key Metrics Monitor appears in the Resource Monitors portlet. How To: Create a Monitor Report You can create reports based on your monitors. The following example creates a report based on How to: Create an SNMP Interface Monitor above. Create a new Report Template by right-clicking the Report Templates portlet, selecting New >...
Page 266: Monitor Options Type-Specific Panels
Click the magnifying glass to the right of the Report Completed message in My Alerts to see the report. Hover your cursor over the lower right corner of the report to see a set of icons that let you expand, zoom out and in, save, or print the report.
Page 267 ICMP The ICMP Monitor Options panel contains the following properties: Packet Size— Size of packet for ICMP transmission Packet Count—Number of packets to send. Timeout—Number of seconds without a response before a timeout is issued The ICMP Entity Panel lets you select resource groups and Resource manager objects. Clicking Add button displays a selector panel for these.
Page 268 Select the type of entity you want to add, then select any desired filter attributes, then click Apply Filter. Select from the entities that appear and add them to the monitor. NOTE: Migrating from previous versions updates the Network Status check box to true and redeploys the monitor.
Page 269 Proscan In this screen, you simply select the Proscan policy to monitor. In the Thresholds tab, you can set thresholds for both in and out of compliance numbers. The Proscan policy contains the target network assets. Resource Monitors | Monitoring...
Page 270 SNMP The SNMP attributes panel lets you specify which SNMP attributes are to be monitored. Specify SNMP attributes as follows: • With the SNMP browser, or • Entering SNMP attribute properties explicitly. Resource Monitors | Monitoring...
Page 271 The Browse button launches the SNMP browser. Click on the desired SNMP nodes and then click on the Add Selection button to add an SNMP attribute. When done selecting, click the Done button to add selected attributes to the monitor or Cancel to abandon the operation and close the browser.
Page 272 The Add and Edit buttons in the SNMP attribute panel launch the SNMP Attribute editor. This panel contains the following properties: Oid—The object identifier for this attribute Name—This attribute’s name Instance—SNMP instance. 0 for scalar or the ifIndex value for an SNMP column. View Type—Scalar or Column.
Page 273 SNMP Interfaces The SNMP Interface Monitor Entity editor supports the following entity types: group, equipment manager, port and interface. It also supports port and interface filters on groups and equipment manager objects. The PF and IF table columns indicate if a port filter or interface filter is configured for the entity. Click the icons on the right side of the list of Monitor Entities to configure filters.
Page 274 Columns include the SNMP Attribute Name, OID, Row Identifier, Foreign Key, Series Name, Meta Syntax, Units, and Action. If you check the Collect from ifXTable checkbox, then OpenManage Network Manager attempts to fetch attributes from the ifXTable. These attributes are ifHighSpeed, ifHCInOctets, ifHCInUcastPkts, ifHCOutOctets and ifHCOutUcastPkts.
Page 275 MIB Browser This lets you select attributes to monitor as described in MIB Browser on page 188. The SNMP table monitor lets you pick a table column, not the entire table. Add / Edit SNMP Attributes This screen lets you specify individual attributes. It has the following fields: Oid—...
Page 276: Scheduling Refresh Monitor Targets
You can also Refresh Monitor manually by right-clicking in the Resource Monitors table. Top [Asset] Monitors Dell OpenManage Network Manager uses seeded, default Active Performance Monitors (APM) to display performance data in several categories. These portlets display the summary results of device monitoring, for example, the devices slowest to respond to ping.
Page 277: Top Configuration Backups
Devices appear, ranked by the monitored parameter. Hover the cursor over a row’s summary graph of Ping Rate and a popup graph of recent activity over time appears. If you right-click a monitored item, you can select from menu items like those that appear in the portlet described in Managed Resources on page 166.
Page 278 Performance. To select more than one device, use the expanded Managed Resources portlet. The first time you create a default dashboard for a single device, Dell OpenManage Network Manager saves it in the Dashboard Views manager. Invoking Show Performance for that device subsequently displays its default view.
Page 279: How To: Create A Simple Dashboard View
Hovering the cursor over the individual charts displays the charted attribute value(s) as popup tooltips. If a graph has multiple lines, the data points for different lines are charted at different times (Dell OpenManage Network Manager distributes polling to balance the load on its mediation service). Hover the cursor over the time when a line’s data point appears, and that line’s value appears as a tooltip.
Page 280: Dashboard View Selection
This screen displays any existing dashboards so you can select one for the Performance Dashboard you want to appear on a page in Dell OpenManage Network Manager. Use the filter at the top of this selector to limit the listed dashboards from which you can select.
Page 281: Dashboard Editor
Dashboard Editor When you Edit dashboard by right-clicking a resource in Managed Resources and selecting Show Performance, or create (select New) a dashboard from the Dashboard Views portlet, an editor appears that lets you select and rearrange the monitor components of the dashboard. This screen has the following fields: View Name—The identifier for the dashboard.
Page 282: How To: Create A Custom Dashboard View
How To: Create a Custom Dashboard View The following steps create a custom dashboard view: In the Dashboard Views portlet, select the New Custom Dashboard command. An empty default view with twelve components appears. The Properties panel contains the following controls: View Name—The name of the dashboard view (Required) Time Frame—The period over which to display the data.
Page 283 Layout—Select the desired layout style used to display the dashboard components. To select a layout style, click on the ... button next to the current layout. The layout chooser appears. Click on the desired layout or click Close to keep the current layout. The components displayed to reflect the selected new layout.
Page 284 components. Add more rows by clicking on the Add Row button. An individual dashboard component can be deleted by clicking on the delete button on the component. Moving Dashboard Components To move a dashboard component to another location, click and drag it over another component.
Page 285 Other controls appear depending on the component type selected. These components also have a Monitor control, a pick list where you can select from which monitor the charted data originates. See Dial Chart Properties, Top Talkers Properties and Top Sub- components Properties below for specifics about those.
Page 286: Show Performance Templates
Top Subcomponents Properties Top Subcomponents components have the following properties. Entity— The parent entity for the found subcomponents. Clicking on the + button brings up the entity selector. Attribute—The attribute to get data for. Max # of Entities—The number of entities to display Order—...
Page 287 To create a new performance template, click on the Add button. The Performance Template Editor appears. Name your template. The Show Composites and Time Frame fields are the same as in the dashboard (see Dashboard Editor on page 281). Show Performance Templates | Monitoring...
Page 288 To specify which device model(s) this template will apply to, click on the + button in the Device Models panel. The model selector appears. Select multiple devices by clicking + repeatedly, selecting a single device each time. You can also make several templates for each device. See Multiple Performance Templates on page 289 for the way that works.
Page 289: Key Metric Editor
To edit or delete your template, use the buttons in the action column of the table. Now when you click on show performance, Dell OpenManage Network Manager checks whether a template for that device type exists. If one exists, then that template guides what appears in the performance view for the device.
Page 290 Metrics This panel’s display depends on the selected device. Key Metric Editor | Monitoring...
Page 291 Chart Click Chart to first select up to three metrics you want to graph, and the polling interval for the graph. Key Metric Editor | Monitoring...
Page 292 Then click Save, and the graph appears. Click the screwdriver / wrench icon in the upper right corner to return to the chart configuration screen. Key Metric Editor | Monitoring...
Page 293: Traffic Flow Analyzer
Traffic Flow Analyzer OpenManage Network Manager’s Traffic Flow Analyzer listens on UDP ports for NetFlow, or JFlow datagrams. A flow is a unidirectional stream of packets between two network nodes. The following key parameters appear in flows: • Source IP address •...
Page 294: How Does It Work
Applications responsible for bandwidth utilization? Definitions NetFlow— NetFlow is a traffic profile monitoring technology J-Flow—Juniper's implementation of NetFlow. sFlow—For Dell devices. Collector—Application listening on a UDP port for NetFlow datagram. Exporter—Network element that sends the NetFlow datagram. Conversations— IP communications between two network nodes.
Page 295: How To: Use Traffic Flow Analyzer
Traffic Analyzer > Register. The system should then be ready to accept flow data from the device. Router Configuration—You must configure the router to send flow reports to the Dell OpenManage Network Manager server on port 9996 by default.
Page 296: Exporter Registration
Exporter Registration Before you can collect traffic data from a device, you must Register it as a traffic flow exporter. If a device is not registered, the Register command appears in the menu. If it is registered the Unregister command appears. When you successfully register an eligible device, a success message appears;...
Page 297 When you add one of the traffic analyzer portlets to a page, its summary, or minimized form appears. This displays a simple view containing a pie chart and a table showing the summarized collected data over the configured time period. The only thing that can be changed in this view is the period.
Page 298 Expanded Traffic Flow Portlet When you expand the portlet, a more complex interactive view appears. Initially, it displays a line graph for the selected period. NOTE: It may seem a device reporting the same value as others is not graphed properly, but mousing over the graph displays the value.
Page 299: Drill Down
Refresh—Refreshes the screen (runs the report) applying any new settings. Drill Down you can “drill down” into a report by clicking on one of the links in the table. This displays a detail view of the selected entity and the name of the entity appears in the navigation bar. When a detail view appears, the entity type appears as in the title bar.
Page 300 To go back up through the drill-down path the user can click anywhere on the navigation bar. Traffic Flow Portlet | Traffic Flow Analyzer...
Page 301: Search
Search Search by clicking on the Search (magnifying glass) icon in the title bar. Type any string in the next screen to search through the traffic data. A list of all entities found matching the string appears below it. Entity found in the search support the following actions: View Top Conversations—Displays the top n conversations for the selected entity.
Page 302 Enable NetFlow on most impacted routers that support NetFlow. Also, register a number of exporters to enable an efficient and scalable data collection environment. NOTE: You can disable NetFlow and unregister exporters. After NetFlow has been running for a while, verify that bandwidth utilization is within expectation.
Page 303: Change Management - Proscan
Change Management – ProScan Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s change management utility is ProScan, which lets you scan stored configurations to verify managed devices compliance with company, department or industry standards. This application automatically tracks all changes occurring to managed devices. You can report on user-specified values found in persisted backup configuration files for a group of devices.
Page 304: How To: Configure Proscan Groups
If you have multiple device types you do not need to assign actions for each device, or even each device type. OpenManage Network Manager supports the assigned policies, so it knows which actions to do to that device based on which device sent the trap.
Page 305: How To: Do Change Management (Example)
How To: Do Change Management (Example) The following describes an example use of Change Manager. This backs up a configuration file, modifies it, then scans the file for the modified text, and acts according to the result. The following steps describe how to do this: Back up a device configuration.
Page 306: Proscan Portlet
Re-execute the policy. The audit screen that appears should indicate Failure. Alarms / Events Once you have a ProScan policy that has failed, the redcellProScanFailureNotification alarm appears in the Alarms portlet. Success produces and event, not an alarm (visible in the Event History portlet) called redcellProScanClearNotification.
Page 307 Overall Compliance Overall Compliance can have the following values and flag icon colors: All Compliant— Icon: Green. All selected equipment is in compliance with the policy. None Compliant—Icon: Red. None of the selected equipment is in compliance with the policy. None Determined—...
Page 308: Compliance Policy Summary
Expanded ProScan Portlet The expanded ProScan portlet lets you see the Compliance Policy Summary, a reference tree of the connections between a policy and its targets, and a Compliance Policy Chart snap panel. See Compliance Policy Summary on page 308 for a description of the snap panel that appears below the listed policies in this manager.
Page 309 Compliance scans do not stop the first time they fail. They continue so all failures of compliance in the entire device configuration appear cataloged in the result. Each time OpenManage Network Manager executes a compliance policy it stores a history record in the database. Similarly, edits to these policies update history records. When you edit a compliance policy to add/remove equipment, OpenManage Network Manager creates or deletes the corresponding history record.
Page 310: Creating Or Modifying A Proscan Policy
Creating or Modifying a ProScan Policy This series of screens lets you configure ProScan policies. This screen has the following tabs: • General • Targets • Criteria The Compliance Policy Job Status screen displays progress of a ProScan policy as it executes. If you have more than one type of device, you must typically have more than one ProScan policy to address each device type.
Page 311 Enabled—Check to enable this policy. Description— A text description of the policy. This also appears when the policy is listed in the manager. Input Source Use the radio buttons to select a source. Select from among the following options: Device Backup— Retrieve the configuration from the device and scan it for compliance. Current Config—The scan the current configuration backed up from the device.
Page 312 Targets The top of this screen (Current Inherited Targets) displays any targets inherited from already- configured ProScan Groups. Click Add Targets in the Current Implicit Targets panel at the bottom to select equipment that are targets to scan with this policy. You can also select listed equipment click the Remove icon to delete it from the list.
Page 313 Criteria This screen lets you filter configuration files based on text, or Regular Expressions. Click Add to open an editor line. This screen ultimately determines whether the configuration file(s) for the selected equipment complies with the applicable policy. To create a policy, first select whether you want to Match Any (logical OR), or All (logical AND) of the criteria you configure with the radio buttons at the top of this screen.
Page 314 Editing Compliance Policy Criteria After clicking Add Criteria, use the pick list on the upper right to select an operation to select a criteria match type (Contains, Doesn’t contain, [does not] match Regex (see Regular Expressions on page 320), [does not] Match Regex for each line, Count number of occurrences, Perl or Java (Groovy)).
Page 315 In using this type of term, OpenManage Network Manager processes each line separately, comparing the input source to the match criteria. This returns a true value only if the criteria find a match in the source. The order of matching is not important since OpenManage Network Manager processes each line separately.
Page 316: How To: Create Source Group Criteria
OpenManage Network Manager applies the group criteria in order, from top to bottom. When you have defined a Start and Stop, OpenManage Network Manager finds the information between these. OpenManage Network Manager logically extracts the data from the main config (essentially creating sections) and then does the audit.
Page 317 redistribute bgp 88 metric 10010 metric-type 1 subnets tag 334 route-map allanRM02 network 2.3.4.0 0.0.0.255 area 123 network 2.3.5.0 0.0.0.255 area 124 network 2.3.6.0 0.0.0.255 area 125 router isis router rip version 2 network 175.92.0.0 no auto-summary address-family ipv4 vrf VPN_PE_A no auto-summary no synchronization exit-address-family...
Page 318 default-information originate no auto-summary no synchronization exit-address-family address-family ipv4 vrf VPN_PE_A redistribute ospf 10 vrf VPN_PE_A match internal external 1 external 2 no auto-summary no synchronization exit-address-family In addition, within this configuration, you want to check if the target lines are present under each address-family in the router bgp section.
Page 319 address-family ipv4 redistribute connected route-map map-12 redistribute static route-map hjlhjhjhjk redistribute ospf 888 metric 500 match internal external 2 nssa-external 1 nssa-external 2 route-map allanRM03 neighbor 2.3.4.5 activate neighbor 2.3.4.5 route-map allanRM01 in neighbor 4.5.6.7 activate neighbor 4.5.6.7 route-map allanRM02 in default-information originate no auto-summary no synchronization...
Page 320 This creates two sources sections. Now OpenManage Network Manager applies the regex in the criteria field to each of the sources. It returns true only if both sources pass (we selected the Match All radio button). In this case “Source 2" does not have those lines, so OpenManage Network Manager returns a false value.
Page 321 The following are examples of the kinds of matching possible: CAUTION: Cutting and pasting from notepad into OpenManage Network Manager may cause carriage return or line-feed issues. Best practice is to compose these within OpenManage Network Manager. ProScan Portlet | Change Management – ProScan...
Page 322 These scans are compiled at runtime, and the Java scan uses the Groovy libraries, included with OpenManage Network Manager. As always, you must install Perl on Windows application servers if you want to use that type of Config Term (it typically comes with other supported operating systems).
Page 323 else print("Failure - no description found"); Notice that you can also combine these scans with the Edit Source Group Criteria regular expressions to streamline them. Java (Groovy) When you select Groovy as the type of Config term, an editor appears that lets you enter that type of scans.
Page 324 return "Success"; else return "Failure - no description found"; Notice that you can also combine these scans with the Edit Source Group Criteria regular expressions to streamline them. Click Save to preserve the policy you have configured in these screens, or click Close (in the tool bar) to abandon your edits.
Page 325: Creating Or Modifying Proscan Policy Groups
Creating or Modifying ProScan Policy Groups When you create or modify a ProScan Policy Group after right-clicking New > Group or Open when you have selected a group, the ProScan Policy Group editor appears. This has the following to configure: Name—A text identifier for the group.
Page 326: Change Determination Process
Dell OpenManage Network Manager stores incremental changes as RedcellConfigChangeRecords by device/timestamp. The ConfigChangeRecordsDAP Database Aging Policy (DAP) manages how long the OpenManage Network Manager database retains these records. This DAP’s default setting stores incremental records for 30 days, then archives or purges them. Reporting shows only records in the database;...
Page 327: Change Determination Process Workflow
Change Determination Process Workflow Change Manager seeds the Change Determination Process and ProScan group operations. You can configure this to run on groups of your choosing if you create a new Change Determination Process group operation. Initiate Change Determination Back up device con- fig and add it to label: Change Deter- mination...
Page 328 Before making this comparison, Dell OpenManage Network Manager determines whether it made configuration changes that have not yet been backed up. If such changes exist, Dell OpenManage Network Manager backs up the resource configuration before running the CD process. Dell OpenManage Network Manager always flags configuration changes made (in Dell OpenManage Network Manager) between backups, clearing these flags following a config file backup.
Page 329: How To: Run Change Determination
Compliance and Change Reporting The Compliance Policy Violation report is seeded when you have ProScan / Change Management in Dell OpenManage Network Manager. Inventory Compliance Attributes for reporting can also appear in report templates when you install ProScan. These report in-compliance or out-of- compliance, the last compliance date (when last compliant or not compliant), last config date (when configuration last changed), last checked date (when change was last determined).
Page 330 The Change Determination Report report displays detected changes based on a configuration change flag set when OpenManage Network Manager detects a change made to the device. To successfully execute this report, you must enable a scheduled Change Determination Process. The process must run before the reports has any contents.
Page 331: How To: Report On Change Determination
ManagerEquipmentConfigChangeNotification event, it can initiate (if enabled) an event processing rule called Configuration Change. This processing rule triggers a flag in the OpenManage Network Manager database saying a change has occurred in the device’s configuration and that OpenManage Network Manager should run change determination against the device when requested.
Page 332 The report which can run to display these changes is OpenManage Network Manager’s Configuration Change Report. It displays the name of the device in question, the IP address, date/time of change, who made the change, what was removed and what was added. You can schedule this report to run immediately after an Change Determination process too, so you can capture a history of changes.
Page 333: Storage Arrays
Storage Arrays Introducing Storage Arrays This chapter describes Storage Arrays as they appears in Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s web portal. These appear in the portlet described in Managed Resources on page 166, as well as the Storage Array Portlet, which offers storage-array-specific capabilities. The following sections describe these capabilities.
Page 334: Storage Array Portlet Expanded
Delete— Remove the selected service array from the list. Show Key Metrics— Displays the key metrics for the selected array. See Key Metric Editor on page 289 for more about configuring these. Audit Trail—Displays the audit trails for the selected storage array, as described in Audit Trail Viewer on page 92.
Page 335 • Storage Array Capacity • Disk Groups and Virtual Disks Reference Tree This panel displays the array’s connection to various components like Enclosures (including fans, power supplies, controllers and disk drives), Contacts, Locations, Vendors, Raid Groups, Authentications, and monitors. You can right-click some of the reference tree items to edit or otherwise act on them. Summary This panel displays the following information about the selected array:...
Page 336 MAX VIRTUAL DISKS— How many virtual disks the array can support. Host Access and Ports This panel displays the following information about the selected array: CONFIGURED HOSTS—The hosts configured for the array. MAX CONFIGURED HOSTS— The maximum number of configured hosts the array supports. HOSTS TO VIRTUAL DISK MAPPINGS—Connections between virtual disks and configured hosts.
Page 337: General
Disk Groups and Virtual Disks This displays the disk groups and virtual disks for the selected array. This lists the RAID Group Name, the RAID Type, and its Virtual Disk. General This editor lets you configure general features of discovered storage arrays.
Page 338 Vendor—The brand of the array. Use the + or - buttons to select this if discovery did not automatically populate this field. Location—The location of the array. Use the + or - buttons to select this if discovery did not automatically populate this field.
Page 339 This tab has the following fields: System Object Id—The Sys object ID of the array. Date Created— The date the Dell OpenManage Network Manager record for the array was created. Creator— The logged in user who created the record for the array.
Page 341: Actions And Adaptive Cli
Tasks. You can even use this capability to include Perls scripts within OpenManage Network Manager. See Perl Scripts on page 368. You can have Actions maintain lists like ACLs, and when these change, in the Adaptive CLI script, push the updated list out to the appropriate devices.
Page 342 When using the CLI Format, The Adaptive CLI tool will prompt you to create new attributes based upon your script markup. This lets you quickly create a script and schema to create an ACLI. If you have attributes that are mainly simple String attributes, this is a very quick and automated approach.
Page 343: Actions Portlet
If any attributes in your script are a List (Collection), the only way to loop through the list’s items during the Adaptive CLI execution is to use Perl. For example: Processing a List of Strings: $count = 0; foreach @MyCommandList) print (“$MyCommandList[$count]\n”);...
Page 344 The expanded portlet also has snap panels to display Reference Tree connections between the selection and other elements within Dell OpenManage Network Manager, as well as an Execution History panel listing Device Name(s), Execution Date and Status for the selected Action, and a Scheduled Actions panel cataloging any Schedules for the selected Action.
Page 345 Audit Trail / Jobs Screen on page 91. Dell OpenManage Network Manager validates the parameters before executing the Adaptive CLI. If a parameter is invalid, for example a blank community name in the Dell PCT Set SNMP Community Settings Adaptive CLI, Dell OpenManage Network Manager logs a validation error to the audit trail.
Page 346 History— Displays the history of the selected action. In the Results (top of screen panel) click to select the device for which you want additional information, and the Execution Details panel displays the Results of execution in one tab and the Sent Commands in another.
Page 347 Schedule—Schedule the selected Action. See Scheduling Actions on page 369 for details. Delete— Remove the selected Action from the list. Import / Export—Import or Export a file representations of the ACLI action selected. Dell OpenManage Network Manager supports ACLI import / export only.
Page 348: Adaptive Cli Editor
(and even some show commands), you must typically first set the device to its configuration mode. Dell OpenManage Network Manager validates entries. If saving fails, a red “X” appears next to required omitted entries. Click Save to preserve the Adaptive CLI you have configured. Clicking Close does not save your configuration.
Page 349: General
Type— Select a type from the pick list (Configure, External or Show Command). You can use Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s optional Proscan policies to scan Adaptive CLI show commands for compliance, and trigger actions (alarms, e-mail, and so on) based on their contents. See Chapter 9, Change Management –...
Page 350: Attributes
Last Executed On—Displays the last execution date. This is blank for New Adaptive CLIs. Attributes Adaptive CLI commands let you configure modifiable Attributes as part of the command you send to the selected equipment. Use the radio buttons to select from the following options: •...
Page 351 Version—An automatically-created version number. Attribute Settings Click the New Attribute button and select the attribute type and open editor panel and configure the attribute. Configured attributes appear in a tree to the left of the editor panel. Click a listed attribute to edit it after it has been created.
Page 352 Truncate—Truncate the attribute. Attribute Settings You can create new attribute schemas. See Attribute Editor Panels below for information about different datatypes’ fields. Once you create a set of attributes, they remain available for re-use as a schema, or collection of attributes. To identify schemas, enter the following fields: Label—...
Page 353 Date Default Value—Enter a default date, or use date icon to display a calendar where you can select one. Click off the calendar to make it disappear. Valid Values— Enter valid date values above the list, and click the green plus to add them to the list.
Page 354 By default, when both of the above are false, the attribute only accepts valid IPv4 addresses. For example: 10.10.10.4 If IP_MASK is false and SUBNET is true then Dell OpenManage Network Manager accepts any valid IP address with a subnet specified. The address must be an IP within the specified subnet. For example, 10.10.10.4/24 is a valid entry whereas 10.10.10.0/24 is invalid since it represents the...
Page 355: Scripts
If IP_MASK is true and SUBNET is false, then OpenManage Network Manager accepts one of the 32 valid subnet masks. The widget displays pick list for user to choose from. For example 255.255.255.0 If IP_MASK is true and SUBNET is true, then OpenManage Network Manager accepts a subnet id (the first IP address within a subnet).
Page 356 Script Settings Click Add New Script to create a new item in those listed at the top of this screen, or select and item and click the Edit icon to its right to alter it. When you create a new script, you must select either Embedded CLI or Perl.
Page 357 Optional Attribute Delimiter—The delimiter(s) you select from the pick list here surround the attributes you designate as optional. See Adaptive CLI Script Language Syntax on page 366 for more about these. All but Delete open a script editor with the following panels: •...
Page 358 Error Conditions The error condition lets you configure errors for your script. Click Add new error conditions to configure a condition at the bottom of this screen with the following fields: Error Pattern—Enter a regular expression for the error. Error Type— Select from the pick list of options (Error, Warning, Ignore). Number of lines to check—...
Page 359 Attributes Extraction To support Adaptive Service and Active Monitor functions, Adaptive CLI provides a way for the user to define output schema attributes. This tab is active only if you have selected schema attributes previously in the Attributes portion of this editor. This lets you Add, Edit or Delete extracted attributes, like Error Conditions’s editor, and configure them with the following fields: Attribute Name—This field specifies the name of the extracted attribute.
Page 360: Comparison
Use the right/left arrows at the bottom of this screen to page through the side-by-side comparison. External Commands External commands are essentially scripts that run in the Dell OpenManage Network Manager environment. For example, you could run the DOS dir command (and schedule its execution).
Page 361 Results Dell OpenManage Network Manager stores the results of running a script as lines the Execution Details snap panel. Right click the particular command run in the snap panel at the bottom of the Expanded Actions Portlet. Tabs show the Results, Sent Command, and Script and Parameters.
Page 362: Seeded Scripts
You can also extract parameters for these external commands as is described in Attributes Extraction on page 359. Seeded Scripts Several external perl scripts come with Dell OpenManage Network Manager as examples of the kind of commands you can execute. These are in \owareapps\performance\scripts under the installation root.
Page 363 perl ../../../owareapps/performance/scripts/http_test.pl Notice that these also include a parameter (Result) that contains values extracted. Set up attribute extraction in the Values Extraction tab of the script editor. Script Names and Functions common.pl— Common functions defined for scripts in this directory. External Commands | Actions and Adaptive CLI...
Page 364: How To: Create A Monitor For An External Script
dns_test.pl— Check if DNS can resolve the specified host name. finger_test.pl—Check if the finger service is running on a specified host. ftp_test.pl—Check the FTP service is running on a specified host. http_test.pl—Check the HTTP service is running on a specified host. nntp_test.pl—...
Page 365 Look in Job Viewer for the results. Click Set attribute extraction results, click here to see the results appear in the bottom panel. Notice also that you must check informational messages for all these to appear, and that several additional sets of messages besides the extraction results appear. Create a Monitor for the External Script Adaptive ACLI Now that you have verified the script is working, you can create a monitor to see how this attribute is doing.
Page 366: Adaptive Cli Script Language Syntax
Save your monitor NOTE: You may want to test your monitor, in which case, you may want to change the interval to 30 seconds. Right-click to select View Monitor Data, and you can see the results of your efforts. Adaptive CLI Script Language Syntax Here's the Adaptive CLI scripting language syntax: •...
Page 367: Conditional Blocks
The default mandatory delimiters are <>, and the default optional delimiters are [], but you can change those default settings. That means an Attribute variable like <var> may represent a mandatory or an optional Attribute depending on what are set as delimiters. NOTE: Single delimiter symbols require a space after the attribute.
Page 368: Perl Scripts
For such scripts to operate correctly, you must have Perl installed on the directory path for all OpenManage Network Manager servers. • Perl does not come with OpenManage Network Manager and must be installed on the server system independently for it to work with Adaptive CLI. •...
Page 369: How To: Create Adaptive Cli Example
How To: Create Adaptive CLI Example The following describes the basics of creating and using Adaptive CLIs. Create a new Adaptive CLI. Right-click and select New. In the Attributes panel, create attributes named required and optional. In the Script panel define the Attribute Delimiter (< >) and Optional Attributes Delimiter ([ ]) and enter the following three scripts: show run show <Required>...
Page 370 General This screen lets you identify the scheduled item and its targets. This has the following fields: General Settings Action—Identifies the action being scheduled. Schedule Description—Identifies the schedule. Associated Targets Click the Add button to select target equipment. You can remove listed equipment with the icon to the right of listed items or with the Remove All button.
Page 371: Active Performance Monitor Support
Parameters This screen’s configuration depends on the selected action you are scheduling. Many actions have no parameters, so this tab is disabled. Enter the parameters for the action you are scheduling. Hover the cursor over fields to make their description appear in a tooltip. Schedule This screen is a standard scheduler screen, as described in Schedules on page 95.
Page 372 panel) and a particular Adaptive CLI (with the green plus [+] in the Adaptive CLI Properties panel at the bottom of this screen. Click the Edit (page) icon to select the Input Parameters to monitor once you have selected an Adaptive CLI. The user can choose an Adaptive CLI to monitor and may have to configure both its input values and metric type for each output attribute.
Page 373: Adaptive Cli Records Archiving Policy
Click Save to preserve your configuration, or Cancel to abandon it and close the editor screen. Adaptive CLI Records Archiving Policy You can use OpenManage Network Manager’s archiving feature to preserve Adaptive CLI information. Click the Redcell > Database Archiving Policy (DAP) node of the Control panel, and click the default Adaptive CLI DAP and click the edit button on its right.I...
Page 374 Adaptive CLI Records Archiving Policy | Actions and Adaptive CLI...
Page 375: Glossary
Glossary Glossary Refers to mechanisms and policies that restrict access to computer — CCESS ONTROL resources. An access control list (ACL), for example, specifies what operations different users can perform on specific files and directories. A signal alerting the user to an error or fault. Alarms are produced by events. Alarms —...
Page 376 An Ethernet trunk port is a port that terminates a point-to-point — THERNET RUNK Ethernet trunk. Since Ethernet trunk is a point-to-point connection, each Ethernet trunk contains two Ethernet trunk ports. An Ethernet service represents a virtual layer broadcast domain that —...
Page 377 In network security, a filter is a program or section of code that is designed to — ILTER examine each input or output request for certain qualifying criteria and then process or for- ward it accordingly. Graphical User Interface GUI — The Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) is an IPv6 tran- ISATAP —...
Page 378 Routing scheme that forwards packets to specific interfaces based on — OLICY ROUTING user-configured policies. Such policies might specify that traffic sent from a particular net- work should be routed through interface, while all other traffic should be routed through another interface.
Page 379 and a self-signed certificate does not provide any guarantee concerning the identity of the organization that is providing the website. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. SMTP — Simple Network Management Protocol. Network management protocol used SNMP — almost exclusively in TCP/IP networks. SNMP provides the means to monitor and control network devices, and to manage configurations, statistics collection, performance, and secu- rity.
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Page 381: Index
Index Numerics Adaptive CLI Editor 348 Authentication Editor 144 32-bit Linux Libraries 18 Adaptive CLI Script Lan- Authentication Portlet 143 guage Syntax 366 Authentication Snap Panel A Note About Performance Additional Products 11 Administration Overview 15 Authorization 375 About Box 72 Aging Policies Editor 52 Access Control 375 Aging Policies Options 54...
Page 382 Configuration File Editor (Topology) 213 Equipment 375 Data Configuration 45 Equipment Details 178 Configuration Files 229 Database 375 Equipment Icons 166 Configure Alarm E-mail 103 Database Aging Policies 50 Equipment Name 102 Contacts Editor 134 Database Aging Sub-Poli- Error Condition 358 Contacts Portlet 133 cies 55 Ethernet Access Point 376...
Page 383 Expanded Location Portlet plate 195 General (Rule Editor) 111 Create a Simple Dash- Expanded OS Images port- Getting Started 27 board View 279 let. 234 Graphs 77 Create a topology view Expanded Portlets 82 Group Operations 225 Expanded Reports Portlet GUI 377 Create a Visualization Expanded Resource Monitor...
Page 384 License 12 Menu Options 153 Run Change Determina- License Viewer 63 MEP 377 tion 329 Link Discovery 176 MIB 377 Set Unix Permissions 31 Location Editor 136 MIB Browser 188 Share a Resource 88 Location Manager Migrating heartbeats 253 Use “How To” 12 Address 136 Minimum hardware 16 Use Containers 147...
Page 385 OS Image Editor 235 Ports required 30 OS Images Portlet 233 Post-processing rules 114 RADIUS 378 OSPF 377 PPTP (Point-to-Point Tun- RCSynergy 35 Portal > 42 neling Protocol) 378 Recommended Operating Overall Compliance 307 Printing manager contents System Versions 16 Recorder / Page turn icons PDF 90 Private Key 378...
Page 386 Schedule Refresh Monitor (STP) 379 ground 259 Targets 276 SSH (Secure Shell) 379 Tooltips 72 Schedules 95 SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Top [Asset] Monitors Port- Schedules Portlet 95 lets 276 Scheduling 95 Starting Web Client 33 Top Configuration Backups Scheduling Actions 186 Static Group 164 Portlet 277 Scheduling Monitor Target...
Page 387 Upgrade licenses from previ- Windows Terminal Server ous version 12 Vendors Portlet 139 Vendors Snap Panel 141 View as PDF 90 Visualization 207 Actions 209 Alarms 219 Balloon 216 Basic Spring 219 Circular 218 Configuring Views 208 Data / Node Finder 213 Displayed Levels 210 Graph Inventory 214 Hierarchical-Cyclic 218...
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1 Preface

2 Getting Started with Dell Openmanage Network Manager

3 Portal Conventions

4 Key Portlets

5 Resource Management

6 Visualize My Network

7 File Servers

8 Monitoring

9 Traffic Flow Analyzer

10 Change Management - Proscan

11 Storage Arrays

12 Actions and Adaptive CLI

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