OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Version 4.2

Viewing additional hardware configuration for chassis

You can view information about the warranty, storage, firmware, management controller details within the selected chassis. To view the information in this page, ensure that you run an inventory job and export a .CSV file with the component information.

About this task

To view warranty, storage, firmware, management controller details for chassis, perform the following steps:

Steps

  1. In the Home page, click vCenter.

  2. In the left pane, under OpenManage Integration, click Dell EMC Chassis.

  3. In the left pane, select the corresponding chassis IP.

  4. Click the Monitor tab.

    To see the information about warranty, storage, firmware, and management controller, navigate through OMIVV.

    Table 1. Firmware details
    Hardware configurationNavigation through OMIVVInformation
    Firmware
    1. In the Monitor tab, click the double arrow mark and expand the left pane, and then click Firmware.
    2. In the Monitor tab, If you click Launch CMC, the Chassis Management Controller page is displayed.

    Information about firmware:

    • Component
    • Current Version
    Table 2. Management controller details
    Hardware configurationNavigation through OMIVVInformation
    Management controller
    1. In the Monitor tab, click the double arrow mark and expand the left pane, and then click Management Controller.
    2. In the Management Controller page, to view additional information, click the arrow mark and expand the left column.

    Information about management controller:

    • General
      • Name
      • Firmware Version
      • Last Update Time
      • CMC Location
      • Hardware Version
    • Common Network
      • DNS Domain Name
      • Use DHCP for DNS
      • MAC Address
      • Redundancy Mode
    • CMC IPv4 Information
      • IPv4 Enabled
      • DHCP Enabled
      • IP Address
      • Subnet Mask
      • Gateway
      • Preferred DNS Server
      • Alternate DNS Server
    Table 3. Storage information
    Hardware configurationNavigation through OMIVVInformation
    StorageIn the Monitor tab, click Storage.

    Information about storage:

    • Virtual Disks
    • Controllers
    • Enclosures
    • Physical Disks
    • Hot Spares
    NOTE: When you click a highlighted link under storage, the View table displays the details for each highlighted item. In the view table, if you click each line item, additional information is displayed for each highlighted item.

    For M1000e chassis, if you have a storage module, the following storage details are displayed in a grid view without any additional information:

    • Name
    • Model
    • Service Tag
    • IP Address (Link to storage)
    • Fabric
    • Group Name
    • Group IP Address (link to storage group)

    Table 4. Warranty information
    Hardware configurationNavigation through OMIVVInformation
    WarrantyIn the Monitor tab, click Warranty.

    Information about warranty:

    • Provider
    • Description
    • Status
    • Start Date
    • End Date
    • Days Left
    • Last Updated
    NOTE: To view warranty status, ensure that you run a warranty job. See Running a warranty retrieval job.