Dell PowerEdge MX840c EMC Systems Management Overview Guide Version 20.0 - Page 6

2 Systems Management Product Overview Dell EMC Consoles The following consoles help in monitoring, managing the infrastructure, and the Lifecycle management of the PowerEdge servers: OpenManage Enterprise OpenManage Enterprise is the next generation of OpenManage Essentials. It simplifies, centralizes, and automates the full span of server lifecycle management activities. It helps in discovery, configuration, deployment, updates, and remediation. These tasks are performed within a single console that unifies management of tower, rack, and modular platforms. OpenManage Enterprise helps in standardizing and supporting IT management policies and practices. The OpenManage Enterprise console simplifies and strengthens the current capability of OpenManage Essentials in the following areas: • Reduced time and effort that is required to manage small and large-scale IT environments using HTML5 GUI • Simplified GUI workflow to provide a single management layer that unifies the management of PowerEdge tower, rack, and modular platforms • Packaged and delivered as virtual appliance and supports ESXi, HyperV, and KVM • Redesigned architecture on CentOS with the PostgreSQL database. Operating system and database license are no longer required • Centralized user management with role-based access control • Enabled with customer automation and solution integration using Northbound API • Enhanced policy-driven management Table 1. OpenManage Enterprise feature and benefits Feature Description Packaged as a virtual appliance OpenManage Enterprise is readily deployable as a virtual appliance in ESXi, Hyper-V, and KVM hypervisors Benefits Enables quick and easy deployment while gaining the benefits of virtualization, including the migration of the application from one physical server to another. Discovery and Inventory on the IPv4 or IPv6 network Discovery and inventory data center hardware up to 8000 devices. Provides data-center visibility for IT administrators. Improves security and provides a management solution for customers no longer using IPv4. Automatic device onboarding The "make ready for management" step is automated for iDRAC during the device discovery and inventory process. Minimizes human errors during the process of discovery and setup. Helps in getting the environment ready for on-going management. Device level role-based access control (RBAC) The scope of IT administration responsibilities can be assigned to specific groups of devices. Helps ensure IT Admin workload balance and skill-set alignment. Server single sign-on Use of credential caching is employed to avoid further password prompts when IT administration perform management tasks or launch the iDRAC virtual console. Delivers fast and seamless management across the PowerEdge server lifecycle while enabling management from a single level. Monitoring and Event Processing Monitoring system health for discovered devices and create event policy to dispatch hardware events. Provides IT admin real time feedback for the health of their environment and enables automated responses through automation policy. Comprehensive API All product features are accessible from a new RESTful API that is conformant to the new popular Redfish standard. Enables IT Admins to automate features and functions of OpenManage Enterprise through popular tools such as PowerShell and Python. 6 Systems Management Product Overview