I'm a little behind on this but Dell released the Dell SCOM Mp Suite 6.1.1 in early August to add support for a couple of new servers and to resolve an issue with the 6.1 installer.
Here is the link for the wiki: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/4118.dell-server-management-pack-suite
Here is the direct link for the 6.1.1 download page. http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=8F4J0
The 6.1 installer was an msi that had to be run from an elevated command prompt. If you didn't run the 6.1 from an elevated cmd, you are most likely missing the Dell Device Helper COM+ Object. A simple repair install from an elevated cmd will resolve that or you can download and upgrade to 6.1.1.
I am trying to get some XCE630's monitored in SCOM, with more/better monitoring functionality than NUtanix seems to offer. However, the discovery doen's seem to be running properly; when set to LogLevel 1, the discovery does show the correct model in c:\windows\temp but SCOM has no Dell Servers in Discovered Inventory. Can you shed some light on this?
ReplyDeleteHow are you discovering the Dell servers? Are you trying in-band or out-of-band? In-band is the easiest and requires OMSA to be installed on the servers. If using In-band with OMSA installed, then you can discover the servers using the normal discovery wizard. Out-of-band is different. Since the XCE630 is just an R630, it should work just fine.
DeleteHi Brad,
ReplyDeleteNot sure why, but the discovery logs show "XCE630", not R630. And I can only assume that the MP doesn't have that model on file, so to speak.
However, I managed to get them working through OOB. Took some digging, but in the end using Basic Auth and the SMASH device template I got them all working fine. Also, that turned out to be the only way to properly monitor hardware, because the Nutanix Hardware MP does not support Dell hardware yet. A nice example of this showed up during implementation. After applying some Windows updates the servers were restarted, and one of them got stuck in POST - turned out one of the memory modules failed. The Nutanix MP remained nicely green.
I'm still working on a writeup of my experiences, I'll let you know when it's ready.
Gerald,
DeleteThanks for your reply. I am actively working a project with Nutanix and the Dell MPs. A couple of things I can tell you is that 1. you are correct, the Dell MP does not currently support Nutanix as a hardware set, but yes we can identify the servers for the most part. Even though the XC hardware is basically just like the regular R series, some of them were added with MP Suite 6.1.1 but other should be coming in 6.2.
2. The MP Suite also does not do immediate alert notification, such as when your memory module failed. The standard MP is set to do health checks on a schedule. To get faster alerts, you will need to enable Drac monitoring and setup SNMP alerts. I am adding this in a document that I will post to my blog very soon.
3. Nutanix has their own MP. If you haven't already, I suggest you download and import that into OpsMgr to help you monitor the Nutanix software components.
Gerald,
DeleteThis new post should assist you to get SNMP Monitoring setup so that you get much more timely alerts: http://bradsjumpbag.blogspot.com/2015/12/dell-server-management-pack-with-agent.html