Dell OpenManage Network Manager- Quick Guide

Quick Start 5 1 Quick Start Introducing OpenManage Network Manager We created this Quick Start Guide to get you started using your OpenManage Network Manager program as quickly and productively as possible. After a review of the hardware and software requirements needed for your installation in Syst...

6 Quick Start System Basics System requirements vary depending how you use the application and the operational environment. Because we do not know your specific network and devices, the recommendations are based on typical, not definitive figures, and are as much suggestions as requirements. Base th...

Quick Start 7 Hardware Recommendations OpenManage Network Manager contains an Application Server that runs continuously in the background, and a Client (the user interface you actually see). You can start and stop the client portion of the software without impacting the application server. Device mo...

8 Quick Start Authentication For successful discovery of the resources on your network, this software requires authenticated management access to the device. To get this access, you must provide the correct SNMP community strings, and any other command-line (Telnet / SSH) or browser (HTTP/HTTPS) aut...

Quick Start 9 Updating Your License If you have a limited license — for example OpenManage Network Manager by default limits discovery to ten devices — then your application does not function outside those licensed limits. If you purchase additional licenses, put the updated license file in a conven...

10 Quick Start Managing Multiple Screens The content of the Main Panel is referred to as a window. Just as you can open several documents in your word processor, you can open several windows in this application. To see the list of windows you have open, click the Window menu. In the Browser View set...

Quick Start 11 Screen Layouts When you select Resources in the Navigation Panel, for example, the default view looks like Figure 1:4 . Figure 1:4. Default View The lower portion of such screens displays detail panels with information about the equipment selected in the upper panel. For details about...

Quick Start 13 7. View the final confirmation of components to install. Click Next . Observe the progress bar as files are copied for installation. 8. The database size typically defaults to 2G with unlimited expansion. Some installations display this default and let you modify it in a database inst...

14 Quick Start Starting the Client After you verify that the application server is started (in Windows, the monitor icon in the system tray turns green), use the Start button (or its Linux equivalent) to find OpenManage Network Manager among your programs. Click that icon to start the client. In Lin...

Quick Start 15 A login screen appears. The default login user is admin , with a blank password. After logging in as admin , you are prompted to change the password. See the other manuals or online help for more information about options for adding and configuring user privileges and the kind of pass...

16 Quick Start HTTPS To limit connections to the application server to HTTPS (secure) only, you can use the -e option when starting the application server from the command line, or add the following line to owareapps/ installprops/lib/installed.properties: oware.appserver.web.enable.https=true To fo...

Quick Start 17 and click Apply . Then click Add to add the address(es) to the processing queue, or click Remove to delete a previously created range you selected. You can add several such criteria. NOTE: If you are managing in a DNS / DHCP environment, be sure to select Manage by Hostname in the Opt...

18 Quick Start 5. Select Discovery Activities (Listed in Execution Order) —The lower portion of the screen lists activities to perform after discovery. Use the Select Activity field along with the command (...) and search buttons to its right to find activities. Selecting here lets you select from t...

Quick Start 19 Auth(s) (validated authentication credentials), and the Auth Status that lets you know whether a device is ready to discover, or has missing or invalid auths. In this last case of missing or invalid credentials, you can click the Change Authentication icon. From left to right, the ico...

20 Quick Start 11. When discovery is done for the user admin , and you click Close , the following Layout screen appears by default. This screen displays alarms received from discovered devices, the devices themselves, and details about devices you select in the lowest panel. See Managing Resources ...

Quick Start 21 Scheduling Discovery When you first discover devices, you typically use a Discovery Profile that includes the discovery parameters (IP addresses, authentication used, and so on). You can keep your inventory up-to-date and discover equipment over a range of addresses by scheduling a re...

22 Quick Start Alternatively, open the Links manager, and click action -> Discover Links . In the next screens, Add the devices, or Add Group s of devices where you want to discover links with those buttons. Click Next and select the types of links to discover, and whether you want to confine lin...

Quick Start 23 Interface Monitor This monitor collects bandwidth utilization and error counts for interfaces Figure 1:8. Default Interface Monitor The initial screen displays the SNMP attributes collected from the devices’ ifxTable. The default group of interfaces comes from the All Routers and Swit...

24 Quick Start ICMP Monitor The default ICMP Monitor reports on ping response times for all devices. Figure 1:9. Default ICMP Monitor The default sends three 64 byte packets every second to the All Devices group. Custom Monitor To set up a custom performance monitor, follow these steps: 1. Creating ...

Quick Start 25 4. Select the interfaces you want to monitor by clicking Add in the top right corner of the screen. A selection screen appears, when you do. You must typically select a device in the upper panel, then select at least one interface in the lower one. You can multi-select by left-clickin...

26 Quick Start If you multi-select several devices, each component displays the top five metrics for each attribute. If you select only one top-level device, OpenManage Network Manager searches the device's interface and port children for performance attributes and these attributes appear with the t...

Quick Start 27 8. Notice that our simple example does not exploit all possibilities for these views. For example, you can have several components within a single view. In the example below, the same monitor appears in all four panels, displaying the monitoring for different attributes in different g...

28 Quick Start Figure 1:10. Monitor Reports You can modify these reports, but by default, they include the monitored attributes and/or devices. The reports appear pre-configured for the day, week, and the last 30 days. These intervals too are modifiable. Consult the User Guide or online help for mor...

Quick Start 29 Figure 1:11. Resource View You can view all discovered resources from this screen. Selecting a resource in the upper panel lets you view details about that resource in the lower panel.Click the plus (+) in the upper right corner of the Details Panel to add or remove sub-panels there. ...

30 Quick Start Alarm Severity & Count This panel displays the count of events by severity, and totals them on the right. Figure 1:12. Event Severity & Count This can either display All Events or Open Events . Change between these counts by clicking the Layout button. Select Change Filter and...

Quick Start 31 The Action Button or right-click menu displays the following items (some installations conceal some of these): Open -> Entity — This opens an editor where you can configure the device from which this alarm came. See the User Guide , or online help. Open -> Alarm — Opens a screen...

32 Quick Start Map — Opens a topology view displaying the equipment from which the selected alarm(s) came. See Mapping Equipment , the User Guide or online help for more about this. E-mail Alarm — E-mail the selected alarm. A subsequent screen lets you specify the addressee, header, and footer. Prin...

Common Tasks 33 2 Common Tasks Managing Layouts When you select a manager, or view in the Navigation Panel a view appears (like Figure 2-1). A configurable filter appears at the very top of these managers. Click Go once you have re-configured it if you want to filter what appears in the upper panel....

34 Common Tasks Creating and Selecting Screen Layouts You can customize the layout of the Device view by adding, removing, or reordering the sub panels. Changes to this layout can be saved. In addition OpenManage Network Manager remembers the last layout used. So if you change the screen appearance,...

36 Common Tasks Minimizing sub-panels The borders of sub-panels display triangles that are minimize buttons for the individual panels. Clicking this button minimizes that sub-panel. The remaining sub-panels automatically resize to fill in the remaining space. Column Drag and Drop You can drag and dr...

Common Tasks 37 Users and User Groups The application’s User Manager lets you associate information with users like passwords, group membership, and contact information. Select Settings -> Permissions -> User Manager to see the User Manager. Figure 2-4. User Manager NOTE: This application come...

38 Common Tasks User Groups The User Group Manager lets you create user groups just as you create or edit users. The detail panels display the name, description and whether the group is protected. Open this manager from Settings -> Permissions -> User Group Manager . Initially, a Group is noth...

Common Tasks 39 Permissions T his panel appears in editors for both groups and individual users. It lets you configure permissions (also known as “functional permissions”) for individual users which override those configured for groups. The permissions displayed in this screen are only those for the...

40 Common Tasks The functional permissions that use these actions appear in this screen. Select a permission, and in the Group editor, the description appears at the bottom of the screen. NOTE: Functional permissions are global and additive with other permissions. If you have a group permission and ...

Common Tasks 41 Scheduling Operations You can schedule many of this software’s actions. Open the Schedules screen either from File -> Open -> System Services -> Schedules or from the navigation pane . Figure 2-7. Schedules Click New, then select an operation (Group Operations, Inventory Rep...

42 Common Tasks Create a group — Groups let you change settings on multiple devices. From Resources, select listed devices (Ctrl+click to select several), and right click. Select Add to Group , to add to an existing group, or New Group to create a new group with the selected devices. Selecting Group...

Common Tasks 43 5 In the next screen, select the inventory that you want to map. You can Ctrl+Click to select multiple items. 6 Click Select. 7 The equipment appears, represented as icons on a blank (white) screen. You can re-arrange these icons by clicking and dragging them. The icons display the c...

Backup / Restore / Deploy 45 3 Backup / Restore / Deploy File Management: Backup / Restore / Deploy Once you discover devices on your network, you can use OpenManage Network Manager ’s Backup / Restore functionality to archive configuration files, and manage them.You can also Deploy OS updates and f...

46 Backup / Restore / Deploy • If you select two backed-up devices, you can select Compare to view a side-by-side comparison of the two devices’ configuration files with the differences highlighted. You can also select only a single device with more than one configuration backup and compare those, a...

Troubleshooting 47 4 Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Tips The following answer common questions that arise when managing your equipment. For more details, refer to the User Guide . The applicability of the following will depend on what drivers and other add-ons you have installed with OpenManage Net...

48 Troubleshooting Equipment values are not configurable: • Ensure the login credentials are correct (consult your network administrator) Deploying firmware fails. Symptoms include pressing the Deploy Now button does nothing. You may also find that the FTP/TFTP File Server status is Stopped . • A po...

50 50 Dell Quick Reference Guide S Scheduling Operations, 41Screen Layouts, 11Setting Up FTP / TFTP, 45Shared drive unsupported, 8Starting the Client, 14System Basics, 6System requirements, 6 T Topology, 42 U Updating Your License, 9Upgrade licenses from previous version, 9 User Group Manager, 38Use...