OpenManage Mobile Overview
DELL OpenManage Mobile version 1.1 is an Android application that enables you to remotely and securely perform a subset of datacenter monitoring and server remediation tasks from your handheld device. OpenManage Mobile connects to your datacenter through the DELL OpenManage Essentials version 1.3 and up hardware management console. This allows a user to monitor all systems managed by OpenManage Essentials such as DELL Servers, Storage, Networking, and Firewall appliances and any other supported third party appliance from your android mobile device.
OpenManage Mobile can also connect to a DELL PowerEdge servers directly through the iDRAC interface. Once connected, a user can perform several basic management functions on the server. OpenManage Mobile can connect to a server through iDRAC in two possible ways:
1) Remotely using Wi-Fi or Broadband network from anywhere.
2) Physically at the data center using Near Field Communications (NFC) technology. This requires a DELL 13G PowerEdge server (R630, R730, R730 XD) that is equipped with an iDRAC Quick Sync Bezel.
Key benefits:
- Flexible schedule for system administrators: Monitor your data center systems from anywhere at anytime
- Increase business productivity: Reduce response time on critical alerts by taking server remediation actions from your phone
Key Features
- Connect to multiple OME 1.3 and up servers from a single mobile device
- Connect to multiple 12G & 13G servers individually through the iDRAC interface
- Receive critical alert notification on your mobile device as they arrive into your OpenManage Essentials management console
- Acknowledge, forward, and delete alerts from your mobile device
- Browse through device details, firmware inventory, and event logs of individual systems
- Perform several server management functions such as Power On, Power cycle, Reboot, and
FAQ: iDRAC Quick Sync & OpenManage Mobile - October 2014
What’s New in OMM v1.1
Browse system health status through the 1:1 iDRAC remote interface or at-the-box through the iDRAC Quick Sync interface
- Connect to the server desktop remotely from a mobile device using Virtual Network Computing (VNC) connection
- Perform the following functions from the OpenManage Mobile app through the iDRAC Quick Sync interface
- Browse through device details, firmware inventory, health status and event logs of individual systems
- Perform several server management functions such as Power On, Power cycle, Reboot, and
- Configure iDRAC network information, first boot device and root password from the OMM app through the iDRAC Quick Sync interface
Minimum Requirements
- Mobile device running Android OS v 4.0.3 or higher
- OME v1.3 or OME v2.0 management console (for data center monitoring features)
- 12G & 13G servers (for 1:1 connection through IDRAC)
- 13G servers (R630, R730, R730 XD) and the iDRAC Quick Sync Bezel (for at-the-box features)
- Android VNC app is required to use the remote desktop access feature in OMM v1.1. This app has been withdrawn from the Google app store. Follow these instructions to get the app.
- Close OMM (you don’t need to uninstall it)
- Download the apk from this location
https://code.google.com/p/android-vnc-viewer/downloads/detail?name=androidVNC_build20110327.apk
- Install (side load) it on your Android phone. You might have to go to Android Settings and enable “Install applications from unknown sources”
- Re-open OMM and access the Remote Desktop feature.
Videos –
Value proposition video for iDRAC with Quick Sync enabled by OMM v 1.1
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Video showing iDRAC Quick Sync features with OMM
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Video explaining the value proposition of the application –
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A video explaining the 4 key steps involved in using the application -
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Download -
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dell.omm
Documents -
OpenManage Mobile v1.1 User Guide
OpenManage Mobile v1.0 User Guide
OpenManage Mobile Best Practices White Paper
OpenManage Mobile TIP of the day
03/18/2014 - Push Notifications
Question – I am able to connect to my OME through 3G/4G connections and get notifications. When I am not connected to my OME server I still keep receiving notifications from the devices I am monitoring. Why is this happening? How can I stop this?
Answer – When a user adds an OME to the OMM app on the phone, he/she chooses a filter for “push notifications”. This is the second screen of the “Add OME” wizard. Whenever OME receives an alert that matches the filter chosen by the user it sends an alert update via the end users phone network to the mobile device. If “All Alerts” was chosen, the user will receive all alerts that are received by OME. Ideally an administrator should set the filter to only those alerts that are critical and are of interest to avoid alert overload.
The alerts will get pushed to your mobile phone even when you are no longer connected to the OME, and away from your company network. These messages are not warnings about lack of connection to OME. As an OME administrator, you would want to receive these alerts even when not connected to the OME (for example when you are offsite or it is after work hours), since they usually indicate problems in your data center. After receiving one or more alerts log onto OMM, connect to the OME, and then view more details on the alerts. After browsing through the alert details take action on the alert, without having to physically access the OME or the targets managed by OME. If you don’t log onto OMM, the alerts will accumulate as they are still marked “unread.”
If you don’t want to receive alerts when not connected to the OME this feature can be turned off. There are several ways to do this.
1) Log onto OMM, edit the OME’s connection and change your filter settings to “None” or to the filter you are most interested in. You have to be connected to the OME to make this change. A user can always re-subscribe to the right filter as his roles and responsibilities changes over time.
2) Log onto OME via a web browser, and in the “Preference” section you will see your phone listed in the “Mobile Settings” page. You can choose to delete or disable your device from that list.
OpenManage Mobile Forum -
Have a question or feedback on OMM. Start a discussion here.
Others –
OpenManage open source license document