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Automate high-touch server lifecycle management tasks with Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise integrations and plugins
IT admins have a long list of responsibilities. Tasks like manual server management, maintenance, and troubleshooting can consume huge quantities of their time and energy. Dell EMC™ OpenManage™ Enterprise (OME) 3.5 contains features and capabilities designed to lighten their load.
In our hands-on evaluation, we found OME systems management automations shaved valuable time and effort off our manual server discovery and firmware update workflows. Plus, when we used OME in conjunction with Power Manager and OpenManage Integration with ServiceNow® (OMISNOW), event tracking and monitoring was completely automatic after our initial policy creation process.
We also found that once our servers under test completed server-initiated discovery (an OME feature where servers automatically notify OME of their presence1), discovering and monitoring them for actionable hardware issues through the OME console with the SupportAssist Enterprise (SAE) plugin required zero additional steps and no additional time.
The following sections show how the Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Suite can save considerable admin time and effort on a variety of common lifecycle management tasks compared to a manual method that utilized Dell iDRAC9.
1 Dell Technologies, “Server-Initiated Discovery with OpenManage Enterprise 3.4,” accessed March 3, 2021, https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_software_int/esuprt_software_ent_systems_ mgmt/dell-openmanage-enterprise_white-papers15_en-us.pdf.