Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center provides comprehensive lifecycle management for the hardware assets in your data center. The hardware assets can be handled individually or as a group.
After the discovery and management of the hardware assets you can configure and then monitor them to gather the information to maintain them.
Steps to configure hardware assets.
Use these deployment plans:
Install Server
Update BIOS Configuration
Configure Service Processor
Configure Server Hardware and Install OS
Configure RAID
Configure M-Series Hardware, Create and Install Domain
Configure and Install Dynamic System Domain
All the plans are based on hardware resource profiles. See Hardware Resource Profiles
As soon as a hardware asset is managed, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center starts to monitor it, according to the asset type's monitoring profile.
The center pane displays information for a selected asset in a series of tabbed windows. The tabs and the type of information is specific for the asset type but, in general, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center reports the following:
Health status
Power state
Power usage
Hardware variables and connectivity
You can change the monitoring thresholds in the standard profile to specify the conditions that generate an alert. You can also create custom profiles with different rule sets and alert parameters and apply the profile to a specific system, a group of homogeneous systems, or a group that you define.
You can control and maintain your hardware assets and perform specified actions on it.
Based on your observations, you can control your hardware assets and do the following actions:
Update management credentials.
Power systems on and off
Place in maintenance mode
Reset a server
Get access to the serial console
Use locator lights to identify a specific asset
Check firmware compliance and update firmware
Use these deployment plans or customize them:
Update Storage Appliances
Update BIOS Configuration