[OpsMgr 2012] Making DELL management packs lighter for your management servers ( #OpsMgr #SCOM #DELL #ManagementPack #SDK )

DELL has recently released a very comprehensive management pack suite for Operations Manager, you can download the suite here.

The suite can monitor Dell servers, DRAC and chassis:

• Server inband monitoring – for Windows servers with an Operations Manager agent installed
• Server Out of Band monitoring – for servers with any operating system (or without OS if this matters) it uses a WS-Management interface provided with the latest iDRAC models
• Remote DRAC monitoring – for DRAC monitoring
• Remote CMC monitoring – for CMC monitoring

The suite also provides a way to enable or disable specific monitoring scopes directly from the monitoring space of the Operations Manager Console, this functionality is called “Feature Monitoring”, and the ability to correlate chassis slot with actual servers.

Alas all this goodness has a major drawback many of these modules have dependencies to the management servers and use direct access to the SDK    

 Daniele Grandini (MVP) has published a post to show how to not install dependencies on the administartions servers with no lost of functionalities.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.