Dell Smart Plug-in Version 2.0 For HP Owner's Manual

Dell Smart Plug-in Version 2.0

For HP Operations Manager

9.0 For Microsoft Windows
Quick Installation Guide

Notes

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1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Pre-requisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Configuring User Authorization for WinRM

. . . . . 6

Accessing Dell Smart Plug-in Installer

. . . . . . . . . . 7

Installing the Dell SPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Verifying Dell SPI Installation

What to do Next?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Using the Configuration Utility

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

. . . . . . . . . . . 11

Setting the Schedule for Auto-grouping
Policy

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Related Documents

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Contents 3

4 Contents

1

Introduction

This guide provides quick installation instructions for Dell Smart Plug­in(SPI) Version 2.0 for HP Operations Manager 9.0 for Microsoft Windows.

NOTE: This plug-in is applicable to 64 bit systems.

Pre-requisites

The pre-requisites for installing the Dell Smart Plug-in are as follows:

• Administrator and HP_OVE_ADMIN privileges on the HP Operations
Manager (HPOM) management server.

• WinRM privileges to monitor Dell ESXi systems.

Install the following software on the Management server:

Table 1-1. Software Requirements for Management Server

Requirement Description

HPOM 9.0 For more information on installing HPOM, see the HP

Operations Manager 9.0 Installation Guide available on the

HP Support website.

SNMP Service Install and enable SNMP. For more information, see

Documents

WinRM 2.0 service Install and configure WinRM version 2.0 or above to

establish communication with the Dell ESXi systems that
you are monitoring. For more information, see

User Authorization for WinRM

.

.

Related

Configuring

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Table 1-2. Software Requirements for Managed Systems

Requirement Description

Operating Systems Install the supported Windows or Linux operating systems,

or the supported ESXi version. For more information on the
supported operating systems, see

SNMP service

SNMP agent Configure the SNMP agent to change the community name,

Server Administrator

Install and enable the SNMP service and ensure that the
management server is able to communicate with the
managed node. For more information, see

Documents

enable Get operations, and send traps to the HPOM
management server.

For more information on configuring the SNMP agent on
Windows and Linux systems, see

The supported versions of Server Administrator are:

• For Windows systems — versions 5.5 to 6.5.

• For ESXi and Linux systems — versions 6.1 to 6.5.

Install Server Administrator on ESXi and enable the OEM
CIM providers and ensure that the management server is able
to communicate with the systems.

For more information on configuring SNMP for Windows,
ESXi, and Linux systems, or on enabling the OEM CIM
providers, see

and

What to do Next?

Related Documents

Related Documents

Related

Related Documents

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.

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Configuring User Authorization for WinRM

To configure user authorization for WinRM:

1

Click

Start 

2

Ty p e

winrm configsddl default

3

Click

Add

4

Provide the appropriate permission(s) to the respective users and click OK.

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Run

on the

Windows

menu of your system.

and click OK.

to add the required local or domain users or groups to the list.

Accessing the Dell Smart Plug-in Installer

The Dell SPI installer(Dell Smart Plug-in v2.0_x64.msi), Readme file, and
the Quick Installation guide are packaged in the self-extracting executable
Dell Smart Plug-in v2.0_A00.exe file.

Installing the Dell SPI

NOTE: You must close the HPOM console before you install or uninstall the Dell SPI

or use the Repair, or Modify options on the Dell SPI installer.

To install the Dell SPI on the HPOM management server:

1

Download the Dell SPI installer from the Dell Support website at

support.dell.com

2

Extract the contents of the
management server.

3

Run the

4

In the

5

Select the

Next

6

In the custom screen, select any one or all options —

Windows Servers
Servers

Dell Smart Plug-in v2.0_x64.msi

Welco me

.

as per your requirement.

.

Dell Smart Plug-in v2.0_A00.exe

.

screen, click

I accept the terms in the license agreement

,

Monitor Dell ESXi Servers, or Monitor Dell Linux

Next

.

on the

option and click

Monitor Dell

NOTE: You can monitor the servers related to your selection. For example, if

you choose Monitor Dell ESXi Servers, you can monitor only the ESXi systems.

7

Select

Yes

to auto-deploy the policy files during installation. To deploy

them manually on the management server, select

The Summary screen displays information about the Dell SPI installation
location, deployed policy files, tools that are installed, and the systems that
are monitored by the Dell SPI.

8

Click

Install

.

When the installation process completes, click

No

.

Finish

.

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Verifying Dell SPI Installation

To verify the Dell SPI installation:

1

Launch the HPOM console and verify that the policies are installed.

Navigate to

Policy ManagementPolicy GroupsSPI for Dell Devices.

Verify the following policies are present under the

• Dell_Autogroup_Servers

• Dell_Process_SNMPTraps

• Dell_Process_SNMPTraps_AckManual

• Dell_Sched_Status_Update

2

Verify the auto-deployed policies are present in the Policy Inventory.

Under

Nodes,

Policy Inventory

• Dell_Autogroup_Servers

• Dell_Process_SNMPTraps

• Dell_Sched_Status_Update

3

Verify that the following tools are displayed under

OpenManage

• Server Administrator

• DWS Server Administrator

NOTE: The DWS Server Administrator tool is available only when you select

Monitor Dell ESXi Servers in the custom screen during installation.

4

Verify that the config utility is installed in the default or the custom
directory. The default location is:

C:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManage Connection for HP

right-click on the management server, and select

to view the following policies:

:

SPI for Dell Devices

ToolsDell

View

:



If any of the above step fails, check the pre-requisites and try again. To use the

Modify, Repair, and Remove options in the installer, see Dell Smart Plug-in
Version 2.0 For HP Operations Manager 9.0 For Microsoft Windows User’s

Guide at

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support.dell.com/manuals.

What to do Next?

The Dell SPI installer includes the DellSPIConfigUtility.exe, which is a
command line utility that you must run to configure the communication
parameters. After you complete installing the Dell SPI, configure the SNMP
parameters for Windows and Linux systems and WSMAN parameters for
ESXi systems to ensure that communication between the management server
and the Dell systems is established correctly.

You can configure the following parameters:

• WSMAN Connection Parameters:

–Username

–Password

–Timeout

– Security options that include Certificate Authority check, Common

Name check, and Revocation check

• SNMP timeout and retries

•DWS URL

You can use WSMAN specific options only if you enable ESXi systems
monitoring when you install the Dell SPI.

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Table 1-3 lists the options that the command line utility uses to set the
different values for WSMAN, SNMP, and DWS.

Table 1-3. Command Line Options

Option Description

-wsmanusername Specifies user name of a local or a domain account on
the ESXi system. This property determines the user
name for authentication to access the ESXi system.

-wsmanpassword Specifies the password for the user name you
specified.

-wsmancacheck Skips the authentication of Certificate Authority that
issued the certificate. The value is either yes or no.
The default value is no. If you set the value to yes,
then the authentication of Certificate Authority is
checked.

-wsmancncheck Skips authentication of the Common Name (CN).
The value is either yes or no. The default value is no.
If you set the value to yes, then the common name is
checked.

-wsmanrevocationcheck Specifies a value to indicate whether the WSMAN
connection should validate the revocation status of
the server certificate or not. The value is either yes or

no. The default value is no. If you set the value to
yes, then the revocation status of the server

certificate is checked.

-wsmantimeout Specifies WSMAN timeout value in milliseconds. The
default value is 30000 (30 seconds). Set a value
between 500 milliseconds to 4294967290
milliseconds.

-snmptimeout Specifies the SNMP timeout in milliseconds. The
default value is 5000 (5 seconds). Set a value between
100 milliseconds to 4294967290 milliseconds.

-snmpretries Specifies the number of SNMP retries. The default
value is 1.

- dwsurl Specifies the DWS URL. You cannot specify an
invalid URL or leave the URL blank.

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Table 1-3. Command Line Options

Option Description

-getall Specifies the values of all the options and display
them on the screen. This option gets all the values for
all the individual parameters except wsmanusername
and wsmanpassword.

-resetdefaults Resets all the configurable values to the default
values.

NOTE: This option does not reset the values for the -

wsmanusername and -wsmanpassword options.

-help Displays the help for using this tool.

Using the Configuration Utility

To use the configuration utility:

1

Launch the command prompt on the management server.

2

Navigate to

Files\Dell\OpenManage Connection for HP.

3

Type the following command:

DellSPIConfigUtility.exe -<option>=<value>

Enter

For example, if you want to set the WSMAN timeout, type the following
command:

DellSPIConfigUtility.exe

.

. The default location is

C:\Program

and press

DellSPIConfigUtility.exe -wsmantimeout=500

NOTE: If you enter invalid values, the utility displays the error message with

the help text.

If you do not specify new values for any of the options, the utility uses the
default values. However, you must set the values for wsmanusername and
wsmanpassword if you are monitoring the ESXi systems. You must also set
the value for the DWS URL.

When you specify the value for wsmanpassword, type the following command
DellSPIConfigUtility.exe -wsmanpassword and press Enter.
You do not need to specify = after -wsmanpassword. When you specify the

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password for the first time, you need to enter the password twice. When you
modify the password, the utility prompts you to enter the old password and
then the new password twice.

NOTE: The utility prompts you to change the password even when you change the

username.

To view the values for each option other than the values for wsmanusername
and wsmanpassword, type the following command:

DellSPIConfigUtility.exe -<option>

NOTE: After migrating from HPOM 8.1x to 9.0 with Dell SPI v1.1, when you install

the Dell SPI v2.0, first perform auto-grouping to group the Dell systems, and then set
the auto-grouping schedule as required, say 23 hours.

Setting the Schedule for Auto-grouping Policy

To set the schedule for auto-grouping policy:

1

Navigate to

2

Select Dell_Autogroup_Servers.

3

In the
input the desired schedule.

4

Click

Policy Management Policy Groups SPI for Dell Devices.

Schedule

Save and Close.

tab, select

any

of the options in the drop-down menu and

Related Documents

In addition to this guide, you can access the following guides available on the
Dell Support website at support.dell.com/manuals. On the Manuals page,
click Software
product to access the documents pertaining to it.

• Dell Smart Plug-in Version 2.0 For HP Operations Manager 9.0 For
Microsoft Windows User’s Guide

• Dell OpenManage Server Administrator User’s Guide

• Dell OpenManage With VMware ESX/ESXi 4 Systems Management Guide

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Systems Management. On the right-side, click on the