OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center Help

Discover chassis

About this task

You can manually discover Dell EMC chassis by using an IP address or an IP range. To discover a chassis, provide a chassis IP address and the device type credentials of the chassis. When you are discovering chassis by using an IP range, specify an IP (IPv4) range within a subnet by including the start and end range and the device type credentials of the chassis.

Steps

  1. Click Discover.

  2. In the Discover page, select the required option:

    • Discover Using an IP Address—to discover a server using an IP address.
    • Discover Using an IP Range—to discover all servers within an IP range.

  3. Select the device type credential profile, or click Create New to create a device type credential profile.

    The selected profile is applied to all the servers.

  4. In Dell iDRAC IP address, provide the IP address of the server that you want to discover.

  5. In Discover Using an IP Address or IP Address Range, do any of the following:

    • In IP Address Start Range, and IP Address End Range, provide the IP address range you want to include, which is the starting and ending range.
    • Select Enable Exclude Range if you want to exclude an IP address range and in IP Address Start Range and IP Address End Range, provide the range that you want to exclude.

  6. In Chassis Discovery Methods, select one method as per the requirement:

    • Deep discovery—discovers and displays the number of devices present in the chassis such as servers, Input Output Modules (IOM), storage devices, and system models.
      NOTE: To deep discover MX7000 and its components, ensure that MX7000 and all its components are enabled with IPv4 address.
    • Shallow discovery—discovers only chassis components and chassis inventory.

  7. (Optional) To track this job, select Go to the Job List option.

    The Jobs and Logs Center page is displayed. Expand the discovery job to view the progress of the job in the Running tab.

  8. Provide a unique job name, and click Finish.