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OpenManage is Dell's systems management and administration platform.

OpenManage is Dell's systems management and administration platform.

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Does Dell Openmanage software require a reboot to install?

I need to install Openmanage to get the system temperatures and would ideally like to do it now instead of waiting until the weekend. Can someone tell me if I can do this without interrupting the server's operation or is there another way to monitor…
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Do I need DELL OpenManage to generate snmp traps on RAID degradation?

I need to setup surveillance on all our servers to spot any RAID degradation in time. However, not all of our servers have OpenManage installed, and since they are in production I don't like the idea of installing it on them. Therefor: Is it…
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Safe to do firmware updates for multiple items at same time using SUU on Dell server?

I've run SUU on an older production server that I recently became responsible for (PowerEdge R730) and it has many different firmware updates listed. Is it save to just click the upgrade button or should they be done individually? The youtube videos…
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How do I find the Dell controller and pdisk number given a serial number?

I need to blink a drive that I found out had SMART errors using smartmontools. I have omconfig installed and it looks like it can be used for blinking LEDs, but I don't know how to find the controller and pdisk number it needs As an alternative, I…
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Using the Dell open manage plugin with Nagios Core; fails to find server

I'm trying to monitor a Dell R730 server using the Dell OpenManage Plugin (https://www.dell.com/support/article/uk/en/ukbsdt1/sln311076/dell-emc-openmanage-plug-in-for-nagios-core?lang=en). I've got it built and it appears to run on the Raspberry Pi…
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RAID 5 Physical Disk shows Foreign status on Dell OpenManage

I have a DELL PowerEdge 2950 Server which has 6 Physical Hard Disks. First 4 HDD are configured as RAID-5, and the rest two are configured as RAID-1. From last week, third hard disk of RAID-5 shows status as "Foreign". How can I clear this status,…
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Reset Dell IDRAC 8

I recently imported a wrong SSL Certificate onto our IDRAC, now I get the following message on any computer when trying to log onto the console. How can I delete out the custom SSL certificate or reset the IDRAC? I tried system setup F2 on boot,…
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Virtual Media, Uploading ISO to iDRAC5 with Command Line Interface results in connection and credentials errors

We're having a problem uploading a disk image to an iDRAC5 to boot a troubled server using the Virtual Media feature. Here is the scenario: Machine 1 and Machine 2 are far away. Machine 2 is accessed via SSH. All VMCLI tool connections to Machine…
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Moving unallocated space to another disk in RAID 10

Can anyone help me with this? I need to increase the size of Virtual Disk 1. Is it possible to remove Virtual Disk 2 (which is blank) and add that space to Virtual Disk 1? Virtual Disk 1 is using MBR and hosting a VHDX. If so could anyone please…
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OpenManage Essentials is not getting health status

I'm installing Dell OpenManage Essentials on my new computer. Everything worked correctly on my old computer -- 16 servers, inventoried, with health status, server tags, model numbers, etc. On my new computer, I can see the 16 servers, but they are…
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Upgrade XenServer 6.5 to 7.1 - Supplemental Packages

I'm planning on upgrading our PowerEdge M620 servers from 6.5 to 7.1. I read that the opemanage 8.1 also need to be reinstalled. I installed the opemanage server node 8.1 for the 6.5 install in order to get the remote server power-on feature…
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Dell OMSA HTTPS errors

On a non-virtualized server running Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter with application Dell OpenManage Systems Management Software (64-Bit) version 7.4.0 installed, opening Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (https://:1311): Using…
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Dell PowerEdge T410 Raid 5 PERC S300 stuck on 0% while rebuilding

Edit: I upgraded Open Manage Server Administrator and now I receive the following message when I attempt to assign the new disk as a global hotspare: Caution Physical Disk 0:0:0: This Physical disk is not suitable to protect all current or…
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OMSA on R300 running CentOS7

I recently purchased a dell R300 server off Ebay and don't know the setting to log into the iDRAC interface. I've played around in the boot sequence but there doesn't seem to be a configuration utility there. I've tried installing OMSA, Dell's…
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Openmanage failing to recognize firmware versions?

I'm running (what I believe) is the latest version of OpenManage. Every night it polls the various machines for firmware versions and compares them to what it believes are the latest available. This is all well and good except that it's not getting…
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