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    Dell OpenManage Network Manager Quick Reference Guide
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    in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this text: Dell™, the DELL logo, PowerConnect™, OpenManage™, EqualLogic™, KACE™, FlexAddress™ and Vostro™ are trademarks of Dell Inc. Intel®, Pentium®, Xeon®, Core™ and Celeron® are
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    Introducing OpenManage Network Manager 5 System Basics 6 Supported Operating System Versions 6 Hardware Recommendations 7 Basic Network Considerations 7 Authentication 8 Name Resolution 8 Protocols 8 Fixed IP Address 8 Updating Your License 9 The Application Interface 9 Managing Multiple
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    36 Users and User Groups 37 User Groups 38 Permissions 39 Scheduling Operations 41 Common Management Tasks 41 Mapping Equipment 42 3 Backup / Restore / Deploy 45 File Management: Backup / Restore / Deploy 45 Setting Up FTP / TFTP 45 Backup / Restore 45 Deploy 46 4 Troubleshooting 47
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    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 System Basics, you
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    then type regedit), and look for HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Cygnus Solutions -> Cygwin. Linux-OpenManage Network Manager supports Redhat (Enterprise version 4 & 5) and Novell Suse (version 9 and10) Linux, 64-bit only. CAUTION: For Linux, you must install no more than a single instance of MySQL
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    . If not, consult your network administrator to correct this. No useful information comes from disconnected or powered-down devices. See Chapter 4, Troubleshooting in this guide or see the User Guide or online help, for additional information about how to troubleshoot this software. CAUTION: You can
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    # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host 127.0.0.1 localhost CAUTION: This software supports installation only on the local file system. Avoid installing to shared drives. Protocols OpenManage Network Manager uses the following protocols: TCP/IP, SNMP, HTTP/S, UDP Multicast. Fixed IP Address
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    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 convenient directory
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    windows unless you select Multiple Document Interface (MDI) View (the default in OpenManage Network Manager) from the View -> Launcher menu. Figure 1:2. Window Menu If . To change the recommended number, consult the User Guide for this software. While you can still open more windows, doing so
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    describe all the details of available installations. Instead, this Quick Start Guide refers to those descriptions elsewhere in the User Guide or online help. A typical installation will go through the following (in order): 1. Installation and Startup-See the other manuals for this product for a more
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    OpenManage Network Manager software with these steps: 1. Unzip (decompress) the file if you downloaded the application in .zip format, and close any applications that might interfere with this installation. 2. To install this software, log in as an administrator-type user that can install software
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    , for example, never cleans open alarms from the database. Similarly, defaults for archiving event history may not suit your environment. Consult the User Guide or online help for details about tuning these policies. 9. If you are installing on Linux, you must run a setup script in a separate shell
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    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 Linux, if you do not see
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    ]:8080 If you encounter the Change Password dialog that appears when you first log in, you must re-start the browser and re-log in to a web client. This behavior is normal. The application server hostname is the name of the system where OpenManage Network Manager is installed. Quick Start 15
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    discover manually, as described in this section, or automatically (see online help or the User Guide for the latter). Once you have discovered devices, you can manage them. NOTE: Third party devices on your network may appear as Dell Powerconnect switches during OpenManage Network Manager discovery
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    for the different types. NOTE: Ensure the type selected matches the management interface on the equipment you want to discover. You can use some your network in the lower part of this screen to do link discovery too. (See Link Discovery for an alternative) Consult the User Guide or online help
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    . Fill in the required attributes, and Discovery continues. Remove deletes the selected activity from the list. NOTE: You can add a task to add discovered devices to OpenManage Network Manager's heartbeat. You can configure what appears by default as described in the User Guide. You can also
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    OpenManage Network Manager and the discovered devices, including the post-discovery activities. Select a message in the top of the screen to see the time and date it occurred in mid-screen, and the contents of some messages in the Message Details panel at the bottom of this screen. See the User
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    is done for the user admin, and you click Close, the following Layout screen appears by default. Alarms: Totals the alarms, and Managing Layouts for a description about how you can customize your user interface. NOTE: the rest of the manuals for this software. 12. After you click Finish, a
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    or under the System Services node in the navigation window), click New and select Device Discovery. Select the profile, and configure the schedule in the Schedule Info panel. Figure 1:7. Schedule Info You cannot schedule discovery using the Default profile. See the User Guide for more about
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    devices and the entire network. Click Next, and Go to refresh the Link Manager screen to view a system: • Default Monitors • Custom Monitor The following sections describe these in more detail. The Custom Monitor section or the User Guide contains more in depth information about the screens. Default
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    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 Switches group. The Thresholds and Calculated Metrics screens display the specifics of how these collected attributes
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    Open the Active Monitoring -> Monitor manager, and create a new monitor with action -> New. 2. Select the type of monitor in the next screen. For this example, we create an SNMP Interfaces: Performance Monitor - All monitor. Consult the online help for more specific instructions about other types of
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    period of time. The defaults configured in this monitor account no more configuration is required. Notice, however, attributes. Consult online help for Manager, Inventory Manager and Topology Map displays an automatically assembled dashboard. When you select this command OpenManage Network Manager
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    , OpenManage Network Manager searches default this appears with two rows and three columns. You can, however, change those numbers and click Update to create a different layout. For simplicity, our example has one column and row. Install we accept the defaults. Consult the online help for additional
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    attributes in different graph types You can also configure a variety of views to reflect different monitoring needs, and with OpenManage Network Manager's multi-windowing capabilities, flip back and forth between the different views. Reports From Monitors When you create a monitor, a report
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    30 days. These intervals too are modifiable. Consult the User Guide or online help for more information about customizing reports. Managing Resources Open the Resources screen to display the discovered devices. (See Discovering Resources for instructions about discovery.) Click the Go button in the
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    . Refer to the User Guide for additional information about this editor. The section about Alarm Panels discusses alarm management. This can be an important part of resource management too. Alarm Panels This section describes the alarm panels, visible when you click Event Services -> Alarms in the
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    choose the All Events or Open Events items. Alarm Manager In the Default filter, only Open alarms appear on these screens. User Guide or online help for more about filters). For example, you could filter to see alarms that are major and above for only selected equipment. Figure 1:13. Alarm Manager
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    for each attribute. (See the User Guide's discussion of Active Performance Manager for details.) If you multi-select more than one device, each component shows the top five metrics for each attribute. If you select only one top-level device, OpenManage Network Manager searches the device's interface
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    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. not have the free Acrobat reader, download it from www.adobe.com. This reader must be installed for printing to work. 32 Quick Start
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    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. Figure 2-1. Default Manager View The detail panels portion of the screen is also configurable. Nodes that
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    In addition OpenManage Network Manager remembers users when they share the same computer. You can save and select layouts later using the control shown in Figure 2-2. The easiest way to change the layout is to drag and drop the sub panels to a new location. However, you can manually
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    for you as a user no matter what client machine content, the custom layout preserves that empty screen as the default for that selection. You must either Add Content with the layout do not appear in the Window menu described in Managing Multiple Screens on page 10. Only layouts arranging these
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    Application This software controls access to your network resources and device users (user groups). The next section briefly describes this. For additional information, consult the User Guide, or online help. • You can automate and schedule a variety of operations. Consult the User Guide or online
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    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 comes with system users
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    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 nothing more than a name and a description. Figure 2-5. User Group Manager Click New or select
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    row with the permission. These determine a user's capabilities within the application. Generally, the following describes the effects of enabling these actions:. Action execute add Default Behavior When checked, this action lets you launch a particular manager and query for elements. Alternatively
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    is a union, not an intersection of the two. Also: Best practice is to add users to user groups with the appropriate functional permissions rather than alter individual user functional permissions. To see the details about how to do this, consult the User Guide, or online help. 40 Common Tasks
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    , frequency, and so on. Consult the User Guide for more information about scheduling capabilities. NOTICE: You can set up a recurring discovery of an IP range that automatically adds any new networked devices to those already in your inventory. Common Management Tasks The following are common tasks
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    to create a new group with the selected devices. Selecting Group Op lets you do things to the entire group of devices. See the User Guide for details. Mapping Equipment In addition to their listing in the Inventory screen, discovered resources can appear in a topology mapping. Figure 2-8. Topology
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    ) panel to select the area in the larger view screen. You can also right-click an item to see a menu of additional options (see the User Guide for details). For example, you can alter the magnification of the view with the Zoom options. 9 Click File -> Save to preserve this view. Common Tasks
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    44 Common Tasks
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    the firewall to permit OpenManage Network Manager access to that server. See the User Guide for this software for instructions about how to install external servers. The internal FTP server does not work for Linux systems. For details about how to install external servers for those platforms
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    opens, and if the device supports backup/ restore, the File Management node appears in the tree on system image file, open OS Images in the navigation pane. Follow the instructions in the User Guide or in online help to load that image into the database. When you click Deploy in the File Management
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    will depend on what drivers and other add-ons you have installed with OpenManage Network Manager. The following sections discuss some troubleshooting techniques. See this software's User Guide for more. Name Resolution If your network does not have DNS, you can also assign hostnames on a Windows
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    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 possible work-around is to perform a Backup of the device first. 48 Troubleshooting
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    Hardware System Requirements, 6 Hardware recommendations, 6 I Installation and Startup, 12 IP address changes, 8 L License, 9 M Managing Multiple Screens, 10 md5sum.exe, 12 Minimum hardware, 6 Monitor performance, 22 N Name Resolution, 8 Network Considerations, 7 Network Requirements, 8 P Protocols
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    the Client, 14 System Basics, 6 System requirements, 6 T Topology, 42 U Updating Your License, 9 Upgrade licenses from previous version, 9 User Group Manager, 38 User Groups Manager, 38 Users and User Groups, 37 W Windows Server 2008, 6 Windows Terminal Server, 6 50 Dell Quick Reference Guide
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