In the OpenManage Integration extension, you can deploy the Dell HCI Configuration Profile (HCP) policies onto Azure Arc, and then use these policies in Azure Arc to monitor your Azure Stack HCI clusters. This feature is also supported for single node HCI cluster.
- Cluster must be Dell Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI; versions 22H2.
- For single node HCI cluster, version 22H2 supported.
- OMIWAC premium license must be installed on each cluster node.
- For Azure monitoring, internet must be available on Windows Admin Center and target nodes.
- Make sure you have the necessary permission to create, write, or read policies into Azure. Also, you must be a member of the Gateway users role.
- Azure Stack HCI Cluster and WAC gateway must be registered on Azure and use the same account to sign in. For more information about Azure registration, see register Windows Admin Center with Azure.
- Cluster nodes must be Arc enabled and onboarded to Azure Arc. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-arc/servers. Furthermore, ensure that all nodes are registered to the same resource group, and that the resource group has no other Arc enabled nodes that are not part of the current cluster.
- In all cluster nodes, ensure that all RDMA enabled network adapters are connected to the same NIC ports as recommended by Dell. For more information, see HCI Operations Guide-Managing and Monitoring the Solution Infrastructure Life Cycle in https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/t/guides-74/.
Perform the following steps to deploy Dell HCP policies to Azure Arc: - Sign in to Windows Admin Center.
- From the All connections page, select a cluster to connect to it.
- From the left-hand pane, under Extensions, click Dell OpenManage Integration and then click .
- OpenManage Integration checks the necessary prerequisites. If all the prerequisites are successful, a Sign In button appears.
- If any prerequisites fail, a list of prerequisites with status and recommendations for failed prerequisites will appear. Follow the recommendations to make sure all prerequisites are successful before moving to next step.
- Click Sign In. A sign-in window opens to let you sign in to your Azure account. Specify your Azure subscription account details.
When signed-in, the button shows as Signed-in.
- In the Onboarding Checklist section, the OpenManage Integration extension verifies and displays the list of checklist, and shows the recommendations if checklists are not met.
- Click Show Details to see the list of checklists, status, and recommendations if checklists do not match. You cannot move to the next step until all the checklists are successful.
- Click Refresh Checklist to see the checklist with the updated status.
For more information about the checklist, see Azure built-in roles in the Microsoft document.
- In the Onboard Policies section, do the following:
- The Onboard Dell HCI Configuration Profile policies for Azure window appears on the right side showing the available policies for onboarding or update. It also shows version of the previously onboarded policy, if any, and the number of policies already onboarded with a green dot. All the mandatory policies are selected by default and cannot be changed. You can clear the optional policies, if any. To onboard or update the onboarded policies, click Onboard.
- After the policies are onboarded, the policy onboarding status appears next to the Onboard Policies button. Click View Details to see the Policy Onboarding Status page that displays the status of each policy that was onboarded to the Azure Arc.
To export the onboarded policies in a CSV format, click Export Details.
- After the policies are successfully onboarded, log in to the Azure portal (Azure Arc) using the same subscription account to monitor your cluster using Dell HCP policies. In the Azure portal, click the Resource Groups to find the resources you want to monitor (Go to step 6 to find the resource group name in the view subscription details.)
Cluster node details are displayed.
- To check the cluster compliance, click Policies under Settings.
The
Policy page displays the cluster compliance and lists all the applicable policies including the default policies.
Note: Ignore the policy details of the "Dell Exempted Policy" as it only helps in tracking policy versions of onboarded Dell HCP policies and does not impact cluster performance or compliance.
- In the Search box, enter Dell to find the policies that are onboarded from the OpenManage Integration extension. Select a policy to have a deeper look at the compliance for that particular policy. For more information about viewing compliance data in Azure portal, see Microsoft Azure Policy documentation.