Managing MX7000X Chassis
The way that you manage an MX7000X chassis is different from managing other Dell EMC chassis such as M1000e, VRTX, and FX2.
You can manage an MX chassis in a standalone mode having public IPs for Management Module and iDRAC IPs. Also, you can configure an MX chassis in the Multi-Chassis Management (MCM) mode having one lead and multiple members.
Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise-Modular supports wired MCM groups. In the wired type, the chassis is daisy-chained or wired through a redundant port on the management module. The chassis that you select for creating the group must be daisy-chained to at least one chassis. For more information about creating the chassis group, see Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise-Modular Edition Version 1.00.00 for PowerEdge MX Chassis User's Guide at dell.com/support.
You can manage the servers present in an MX chassis in two ways:
- Managing the servers using the Connection profile: The standard and recommended way of managing the servers where all the functions are supported. In this case, the chassis is discovered only after MX host inventory is complete. For more information about creating a connection profile, see Creating connection profile.
- Managing the servers using the Chassis profile: If you choose to manage your hosts using the chassis profile, OMIVV features such as, inventory, monitoring, firmware and driver updates are supported. For more information about managing chassis and host using the chassis profile, see Chassis and host management using the Unified Chassis Management IP .
- iDRAC Lockdown mode
- Ability to use this server as a reference server to capture System Profile and Hardware profile
- OS deployment
- Getting or updating CSIOR status
- Server configuration compliance