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OpenManage is Dell's systems management and administration platform.

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Dell OpenManage Web Interface Inaccessible

We've installed all the Dell server admin tools on our Ubuntu 12.04 Server box using the following command: sudo apt-get install srvadmin-all All the omreport commands etc work as expected but we ...
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Dell OMSA connection error on Windows server

I am having connection errors logging in to OMSA Version 9.3 on a Windows Server 2016 Essentials virtual machine running in ESXi 6.0. I have been using OSMA successfully for the past 2 years. About a ...
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Dell PowerConnect 2724 VLAN frame type filtering issue?

The endless VLAN headaches (and questions), eh? I really have no idea how to title this one, do not judge. I'm currently configuring VLANs on a Dell PowerConnect 2724 switch. Currently, all ports ...
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Dell OpenManage Causing Periodic Slowness

Today we diagnosed the cause of a Periodic slowness issue: see here. Dell OpenManage Server Administrator seems to have been causing hourly slowness. It would occasionally peg one of the CPUs for ...
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Attempting to update iDRAC firmware with racadm, getting error "RAC923 : The file path is too long"

Per title, I'm attempting to update iDRAC on an R720 server running RHEL7. I obtained the correct firwmare file by going to Dell's support site, entering my service tag, then filtering down to the ...
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Dell OpenManage: The installer has detected that the HTTPS listener is not configured for Windows Remote Management

I started installing Dell OpenManage on my companies servers and quickly ran into the below issue which bar one server, I have not been able to resolve: The installer has detected that the HTTPS ...
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Monitor Dell hardware on ESXi 5.1 using check_esxi_hardware on Centreon

I installed Dell OpenManage on ESXi5.1 Host, which I'd like to monitor through Centreon. Since check_openmanage plugin is not to be used with ESXi (according to that post : DELL OpenManage 7.3 on ...
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Dell OpenManage web interface fails to start, service returns syntax error

I've installed Dell's Ubuntu OpenManage 7.4.0 package on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. However, I cannot get the web interface to start. All other tools work as expected, including ...
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Strange behavior with Dell Openmanage 8.2 and server 2008 R2 64bit and degraded RAID

I recently had to rebuild a domain controller [DC02] due to AD database being corrupted and not repairable. Additionally, this server had a degraded RAID [RAID 1] due to a hard drive failure. I had to ...
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Can't get to Dell OMSA GUI on my Linux server

Running Centos 6.7 Linux and installed OSMA wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/Linux_Repository_15.07.00/bootstrap.cgi | bash yum install srvadmin-all No errors, installed fine but ...
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Dell/Vmware - VIB/iDrac/OME/OMSA -- how to tie them together?

I have vSphere Server with 2 Dell hosts (hypervisors) A: is a 710, with iDrac6 essentials. Vanilla VMware Esxi 5.1 install B: is a 720 with iDrac7 enterprise. Dell customized VMware Esxi 5.5 install ...
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OpenManage: what's blocking my systems?

I drank the proverbial koolaid earlier this week and installed OpenManage Essentials on my desktop and updated / installed the agent on my servers. After doing the discovery on the various subnets I ...
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How to disable iDRAC status / alerts for absent PSU or input lost

I have a number of Dell PER740 servers running iDRAC 9 in a lab. As they are in a lab, I only need/want/have capacity for one power supply connected to each server. However, I cannot find a way to ...
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RAID 5 Physical Disk shows Foreign status on Dell OpenManage

I have a DELL PowerEdge 2950 Server which has 6 Physical Hard Disks. First 4 HDD are configured as RAID-5, and the rest two are configured as RAID-1. From last week, third hard disk of RAID-5 shows ...
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Virtual Media, Uploading ISO to iDRAC5 with Command Line Interface results in connection and credentials errors

We're having a problem uploading a disk image to an iDRAC5 to boot a troubled server using the Virtual Media feature. Here is the scenario: Machine 1 and Machine 2 are far away. Machine 2 is ...
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Moving unallocated space to another disk in RAID 10

Can anyone help me with this? I need to increase the size of Virtual Disk 1. Is it possible to remove Virtual Disk 2 (which is blank) and add that space to Virtual Disk 1? Virtual Disk 1 is using MBR ...
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OpenManage Essentials is not getting health status

I'm installing Dell OpenManage Essentials on my new computer. Everything worked correctly on my old computer -- 16 servers, inventoried, with health status, server tags, model numbers, etc. On my ...
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Upgrade XenServer 6.5 to 7.1 - Supplemental Packages

I'm planning on upgrading our PowerEdge M620 servers from 6.5 to 7.1. I read that the opemanage 8.1 also need to be reinstalled. I installed the opemanage server node 8.1 for the 6.5 install in order ...
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OMSA on R300 running CentOS7

I recently purchased a dell R300 server off Ebay and don't know the setting to log into the iDRAC interface. I've played around in the boot sequence but there doesn't seem to be a configuration ...
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Openmanage failing to recognize firmware versions?

I'm running (what I believe) is the latest version of OpenManage. Every night it polls the various machines for firmware versions and compares them to what it believes are the latest available. This ...
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Disable "System Memory Testing" via OMSA 6.4.0

Is it possible to disable system memory testing via OMSA 6.4.0? I can only find ways to do it using newer versions of OMSA; and I can't even see the setting in 6.4.0. I have quite a few machines that ...
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/dev/ipmi0 does not exist R710 SLES 11 SP2

I have been searching without success to find how to get ipmitool to work. It is dependent on /dev/ipmi0 existing, however in my case it doesn't. Here's some information that I think would be helpful: ...
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How-to configure Dell Drac5 and access to it

Help me please how to configure Dell Drac5 and How to access to it. Tried almost everything on google and still no idea, how Drac works. Will I be able to reboot my machine even without VNC or SSH ...
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How to install Dell OpenManage without having an KVM over IP

That is pretty much the question. I just have ssh access to my server, and need to install Dell OpenManage in order to be able to monitor my server which is in colo.
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Reset Dell IDRAC 8

I recently imported a wrong SSL Certificate onto our IDRAC, now I get the following message on any computer when trying to log onto the console. How can I delete out the custom SSL certificate or ...
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