Unveiling the Power of OpenManage Enterprise Backup and Restore
Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:18:13 -0000
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What does Roger Federer call his backup racket? The Federer Reserve, but as all server administrators know, having a backup is no joke!
Given that OpenManage Enterprise delivers key deployment, monitoring, updating, and reporting, ensuring the availability of this management solution is a key requirement. Earlier this year Dell Technologies released a backup and restore feature for OpenManage Enterprise and plugins. This feature is a more convenient way of backing up OME, because it enables an administrator to do so without the need for hypervisor snapshots. One can now back up the entire appliance configuration and data, including managed device information, custom groups, and discovery jobs such as the discovery task, alert policies, installed plugin data, and logs.
A backup task can be scheduled to run daily, weekly, or immediately. Backup administrator rights are required to execute these tasks. When backing up, administrators are required to provide a security passphrase. This is used as a security measure because during a restore, administrators are challenged for the passphrase, and data is restored only when there is a match.
The backup task supports HTTPS, CIFS, or NFS network shares as a target destination and the backup is encrypted to ensure the security of the appliance configuration data. (Note that the appliance is in a maintenance state during the backup, all new task scheduling is suspended, and no operations can be performed on the console during this time.)
In the unfortunate event of a deletion, corruption, or system failure, the restore capabilities of OpenManage Enterprise are easy. If required, data can be restored to the existing or a new instance of OpenManage Enterprise running the same version, using the same or larger sized virtual appliance.
This backup & restore capability for appliance data is a major feature to enhance the resilience of the OpenManage Enterprise management solution.
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Learn more at: Support for Dell OpenManage Enterprise
Author: Mark Maclean, PowerEdge Technical Marketing Engineering
Contributors: Manoj Malhotra, Product Manager; Pushkala Iyer, Product Planner