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November 13th, 2015 13:00
OpenManage Essentials, non-servers, and non-Dell equipment
My company is a small subcontractor for a much larger company. I'm looking for a way to remotely manage all the laptops, desktops, and servers we have on the parent company's domain. I am the only IT guy for my company, and unfortunately I am not a domain admin for the larger company. Since we are in the process of replacing our old HP laptops with nice new Dell laptops, I poked around and found OpenManage Essentials.
I played with OpenManage as time permitted today. It has all the fields for all the information I want (asset tag, installed ram, warranty info, etc), however none of that information gets collected when adding our legacy HP laptops and some of the aging ProLiant servers. Its apparent that even though I specify WMI discovery and give administrative credentials, WMI is not used to get the information.
Will OpenManage work with non-Dell equipment? Did I add the HP's in the wrong way? Is there a way to manually edit the discovered computers so that the fields aren't all blank? If OpenManage won't fill my needs, is anyone aware of a similar product?
DELL-Vijay B
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November 13th, 2015 14:00
Hi Tim,
Thanks for the post and glad to know that you are evaluating OpenManage Essentials (OME).
OME is primarily designed to support Dell devices like Dell Servers, storage, networking devices, clients (workstation/laptops) and support features like inventory, event monitoring, health monitoring, system update, configuration base-line and bare metal deployment, etc. (Refer
However, you can do event monitoring for non-dell devices by using MIB Import utility and importing the required MIB files for the devices (Refer Dell OpenManage Essentials MIB Import Utility - Monitoring HP Servers for details).
For discovering ProLiant Servers, you can try discovering the same via IPMI protocol and see if it helps you with the desired inventory information you are looking for (Refer Managing Devices via IPMI in OpenManage Essentials - section "Using IPMI to manage HP iLO and IBM IMM").
Let us know if you have any further queries as you use OME :).
Thanks,
Vijay