1.0 Introducing AppManager for Dell OpenManage

AppManager for Dell OpenManage helps you easily monitor the health and availability of your servers for maximum performance. Featuring monitoring and analyzing tools, this module provides comprehensive functionality and a flexible interface. This version of AppManager for Dell OpenManage offers significant enhancements over the previous versions. It enables more efficient systems monitoring, both locally and remotely.

This module allows you to manage hardware components in your IT infrastructure. In addition to providing support and optimizing performance, this module ensures availability through automated event detection and correction.

This module also maximizes server availability so your enterprise performs at top levels, ensuring business functions remain online. Graphs and reports of key server trends provide up-to-date data so you can proactively solve incidents and decrease application downtime. AppManager also enables you to monitor server attributes and easily manage your hardware from a single console.

Finally, AppManager for Dell OpenManage provides comprehensive management of your Dell OpenManage infrastructure by monitoring events and collecting data for analysis.

The Dell OpenManage Knowledge Scripts allows you to monitor the following data:

  • Adapter SCSI subsystem on a server

  • Amperage level for a server

  • Array logical drives status on servers

  • Array physical drives status on servers

  • Embedded Systems Management (ESM) Event Log for system hardware errors or events

  • Fan status

  • Server-related service

  • Memory devices global status

  • Network interface transmission errors

  • Network interface status

  • Redundancy of power supplies

  • Power supplies

  • Server’s thermal environment

  • Voltage level for a server

Using a set of AppManager-specific Report Scripts, you can generate the following reports:

  • Amperage levels for servers

  • Status of the array logical drives and physical drives on servers

  • Status of individual fans

  • Network interface transmission errors

  • Server’s thermal environment

  • Voltage levels for servers

The Knowledge Scripts for AppManager for Dell OpenManage raise events in the AppManager Operator Console or Control Center when problems arise. The Knowledge Scripts collect information you can use for data analysis and reporting.

AppManager provides a single location from which you can manage your implementation of AppManager. From the AppManager Operator Console or Control Center, you can monitor the health and activity of your AppManager servers, such as CPU and memory usage. In addition to monitoring, the Operator Console and Control Center provide the means to initiate responsive actions like restarting a stopped service, or paging the necessary personnel when problems arise. You can also use the tools available in the Operator Console and Control Center to generate and view reports based on AppManager information.