Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd2 - Openmanage Integrations; Openmanage Connections

widely used by commercial systems management products and by custom programs and scripts developed by IT sta to automate
management functions such as discovery, inventory, health status checking, conguration, update, and power management. The
APIs supported by iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller include:
• Redsh - In 2015, the DMTF Scalable Platforms Management Forum published Redsh, an open industry-standard specication
and schema designed to meet the needs of IT administrators for simple, modern, and secure management of scalable platform
hardware. Dell is a key contributor to the Redsh standard, acting as co-chair of the SPMF, promoting the benets of Redsh,
and working to deliver those benets within industry-leading systems management solutions. Redsh is a next generation
management standard using a data model representation inside a hypermedia RESTful interface. The data model is dened in
terms of a standard, machine-readable schema, with the payload of the messages expressed in JSON and the OData v4
protocol.
• WSMan -The Web Services For Management (WSMan) API, rst published by the DMTF in 2008, is the most mature and robust
API provided by iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller. WSMan uses a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) with data modeled using
the Common Information Model. WSMan provides interoperability between management applications and managed resources,
and identies a core set of web service specications and usage requirements that expose a common set of operations central to
all systems management.
• IPMI - The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a message-based, hardware-level interface specication that can
operate over both LAN and serial interfaces. IPMI is supported broadly by server vendors, systems management solutions, and
open source software.
• SNMP - The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) helps in standardizing the management of network devices.
SNMP allows commercial management consoles created for monitoring network switches and routers to also monitor X86
severs. SNMP is primarily used to deliver event messages to alert administrators of problems on their systems but can also be
used to discover, inventory and congure servers.
To assist automating system management tasks and simplify API integration, Dell provides PowerShell and Python libraries and script
examples utilizing the WSMan interface. The iDRAC with LC pages of Dell Techcenter oer a library of technical white papers
detailing the use of the embedded management APIs. For more information, see delltechcenter.com/iDRAC and
delltechcenter.com/LC.
OpenManage Integrations
OpenManage provides integration with several leading third-party consoles, including:
• Dell EMC Deployment Pack for Microsoft System Center Conguration Manager
• Dell EMC PRO Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
• Dell EMC Management Pack Suite for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
• Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• Lifecycle Controller Integrationi for Microsoft System Center Conguration Manager
• OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter
• BMC Software
• BMC TrueSight Server Automation
• BMC TrueSight Operations Management
• OpenManage Ansible Modules
OpenManage Connections
With OpenManage Connections, you can extract rich information about the health and behavior of Dell EMC servers and storage to
more eectively monitor, manage and troubleshoot Dell EMC systems in multi-vendor hardware, OS, hypervisor and Open Source
environments.
• Dell EMC OpenManage Micro Focus Operations Manager|Operations Connector
• IBM
– OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus (ITNO)
– OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Network Manager (ITNM) IP Edition
• Nagios
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