OpenManage Enterprise 4.0.x User's Guide

The OpenManage Enterprise GUI

The OpenManage Enterprise Graphical User Interface (UI) contains the tools that you must navigate between and complete device management tasks. It is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the UI elements to use OpenManage Enterprise to manage your data center devices easily and effectively.

• A : The OpenManage Enterprise Menu bar that is on all the screens of OpenManage Enterprise, provides links to features that enable administrators to:
  • View the dashboard (Home).
  • Manage devices (Devices).
  • Manage firmware or driver baselines (Configuration).
  • Manage templates (Configuration).
  • Manage configuration compliance baselines (Configuration).
  • Create and store alerts (Alerts).
  • Run jobs.
  • Discover devices.
  • Collect inventory data.
  • Generate reports (Monitor).
  • Customize different properties of your appliance (Application Settings).
  Click the pin symbol in the upper-right corner to unpin the Menu bar, as described in The OpenManage Enterprise menu bar.
• B is the Dashboard symbol. Click to open the Dashboard screen from any screen of OpenManage Enterprise. Alternately, click Home. See The OpenManage Enterprise dashboard.
• C is the Donut chart which gives a snapshot of the health status of all the devices that OpenManage Enterprise monitors. You can quickly act upon the devices that are in a critical state. Each color in the chart represents a group of devices having a particular health state. Click respective color bands to view respective devices in the devices list. Click the device name or IP address to view the device properties screen. See View and configure individual devices.
• D: The symbols used to indicate the device health state. See Device health statuses.
• E: Enter any monitored or displayed item in the Search Everything box, to view results, including device IP, job name, group name, firmware or driver baseline, and warranty data for all devices within your Scope-Based Access Control (SBAC) defined scope. You cannot sort or export data that is retrieved by using the Search Everything feature. On individual screens or dialog boxes, enter or select from the Advance Filters section to refine your search results.
  • The following operators are not supported: +, -, and ".
• F: The number of OpenManage Enterprise jobs in the queue. Jobs that are related to discovery, inventory, warranty, firmware or drivers update, and so on. Click to view the status of jobs run under Health, Inventory, and the Report category on the Job Details screen. To view all the events, click All Jobs. See Using jobs for device control. Click to refresh.
• G: The number of events that are generated in the alerts log. Also, based on whether unacknowledged alerts are displayed, the number of alerts that are displayed varies. By default, only the unacknowledged alerts are displayed. To hide or unhide the acknowledged alerts, see Customize the alert display. Deleting the alerts reduces the count. For information about symbols that are used to indicate severity statuses, see Device health statuses. Click a severity symbol to view all events in that severity category on the Alerts screen. To view all the events, click All events. See Managing device alerts.
• H: The total number of device warranties in Critical (expired) and in Warning (expiring soon) statuses. See Managing device warranty.
• I: The software status button shows a red dot when a plug-in is not installed, or when the plug-in catalog includes a compatible installation version. It also indicates the same when the plug-in is installed, and the catalog has a compatible upgrade version.
• J: Username of the user who is logged in. Pause the pointer over the username to view the roles that are assigned to the user. For more information about the role-based users, see Role and scope-based access. Click to log out, and then log in as a different user.
• K: The context-sensitive help file is displayed only for the screen that you are on, and not the Homepage screen. Click to view task-based instructions to use links, buttons, dialog boxes, wizards, and screens in OpenManage Enterprise.
• L: The Plugins Documentation icon is displayed when plug-ins are installed. Click a plug-in name to open the plug-in documentation.
• M: Click to view the current version of OpenManage Enterprise installed on the system. Click Licenses to read through the message. Click appropriate links to view and download OpenManage Enterprise-related open-source files, or other open-source licenses.
• N: Click the pin to show or hide the Menu bar, as described in The OpenManage Enterprise menu bar.

Data about items that are listed in a table can be comprehensively viewed, exported in total, or based on selected items. See Export data. In blue text, detailed information about table items can be viewed and updated, either opening in the same window or on a separate screen. Tabulated data can be filtered by using the Advanced Filters feature. The filters vary based on the content that you view. Enter or select data from the fields. Incomplete text or numbers do not display the expected output. Data matching the filter criteria is displayed in the list. To remove filters, click Clear All Filters.

To sort data in a table, click the column title. You cannot sort or export data that is retrieved by using the Search Everything feature.

Symbols are used to identify major main items, dashboard, status of device health, alert category, firmware and driver compliance status, connection state, power status, and others. Click the forward and backward buttons of the browser to navigate between screens on OpenManage Enterprise. For information about supported browsers, see the OpenManage Enterprise Support Matrix available on the support site.

Where appropriate, the screen is split into left, working, and right panes to simplify the task of device management. Where necessary, online instructions and tool-tips are displayed when the pointer is paused over a UI element.

Preview about a device, job, inventory, firmware or driver baseline, management application, virtual console, and so on, are displayed in the right pane. Select an item in the working pane and click View Details in the right pane to view in-depth information about that item.

When logged in, all screens are automatically refreshed. Upon subsequent login after deploying the appliance, if a newer version of OpenManage Enterprise is available, you receive an alert prompting immediate update by clicking Update. Users with all the OpenManage Enterprise privileges (Administrator, Device Manager, and Viewer) can view the message, but only an Administrator can update the version. An Administrator can choose to get reminded later or dismiss the message. For more information about updating the OpenManage Enterprise version, see Updating the console and plugins.

For all the job-based actions by OpenManage Enterprise, when a job is created or started to run, the lower-right corner displays an appropriate message. Details about the job can be viewed on the Job Details screen. See View job lists.