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Hi,

We have several dell servers here, which i can connect to with iDrac and remotely manage. i wanted to deploy openmanage to control everything centrally, but after installing the latest from dell (v 8.5.0) i get a connection error… tried all servers:

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what am i missing here ?

i am trying to connect with the same idrac credentials that work when i browse the server directly. please advise.

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What do you mean your tried to connect to each server? Where did you install OME? Log on to that server and run the client direct?

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if i browse to each server to its idrac ip, i can login and manage the server.

i installed openmanage on a VM in the same subnet as the idracs. it has connectivity to the idracs, but cant login.

do i need to configure anything on openmanage first ? this is a brand new install.

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Openmanage doesn’t use iDRAC credentials. Try using the local admin logon and password of the OS that openmanage is running on.

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these are R630 servers running vmware… is there a way to manage them all under one UI ?

sorry if i missed the point of this :slight_smile:

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Depends on what you mean by “manage them under one UI” - Do you mean manage the physical hardware? If so, there are various Dell tools to do this.

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what i’m trying to accomplish is to get the same (or similar) functionality as connecting to a specific iDrac, for multiple servers “under one roof”.

does such tool exist ?

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Not that I’m aware of. Why do you want to connect to multiple iDRAC’s? What is the end result you want to see?

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mainly hardware status, directly from the server UI (not snmp).

also, would be nice to have all the servers managed from a single place.

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Again, define “managed”. What are you looking to manage?

Certainly some monitoring systems report hardware status, things like check_mk can do this.