Oracle® Enterprise Manager Ops Center

Discover and Manage SPARC T5 Series Servers and SPARC T7 Series Servers

12c Release 3 (12.3.2.0.0)

E60000-03

July 2016

This guide provides an end-to-end example for how to use Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

Introduction

Use Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center to discover, manage, and monitor SPARC T5 Series servers and SPARC T7 Series servers.

You can use Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center to manage and monitor a variety of data center assets, including server hardware, chassis, racks, network equipment, operating systems, virtualization software, and clustering software. Discovering and managing your assets is a prerequisite for almost every action in the software. The discovery feature makes adding assets quick and easy by using a discovery profile and running an Add Assets job. The discovery profile specifies the type of targets to discover and the credentials and protocols to access them and to manage them. You can discover one server or many servers in the same operation efficiently and consistently.

All SPARC T5 series servers and SPARC T7 series servers have an ILOM 3.2 service processor, which uses the Simplified Data Model (SDM) to present information consistently across different types of servers. SDM is an option on SPARC T5 series servers.

SPARC T7 series servers:

  • T7-1B, server module with one CPU socket.

  • T7-1, one CPU sockets

  • T7-2, two CPU sockets

  • T7-4, four CPU sockets

SPARC T5 series servers:

  • T5-1B, server module with one CPU socket.

  • T5-2, two CPU sockets

  • T5-4, four CPU sockets

  • T5-8, eight CPU sockets

Note:

The example scenario demonstrates the discovery for a SPARC T5–8 Server. You can use the same procedure to discover any of the SPARC T5 series servers or SPARC T7 series servers.

You can view a short video of this procedure, Discovering and Managing a SPARC T7 Series Server or SPARC T5 Series Server.

What You Will Need

Requirements for discovering a SPARC T5 series server or SPARC T7 series server using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

You will need the following:

  • Access to a system running Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

  • Ops Center Admin role to discover assets and the Ops Center Security Admin role to create credentials.

  • One or more SPARC T7 series servers or T5 series servers with a configured ILOM service processor.

  • Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) and SSH credentials for the ILOM service processor.

Discover a SPARC T7 Series Server or SPARC T5 Series Server

General procedure for discovering a SPARC T5 series server or SPARC T7 series server using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

To discover the server, use a discovery profile with the Add Assets action. A discovery profile is a combination of an asset type, a set of host names or IP addresses, and a set of credentials. The following steps discover and manage one or many servers:

  1. Creating Credentials

  2. Creating a Discovery Profile

  3. Using the Discovery Profile

Creating Credentials

Credentials used for discovering an Oracle SPARC T5 or T7 server using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

You must provide a set of new or existing credentials to grant Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center access to the ILOM service processor. For a server with an ILOM service processor, use IPMI and SSH credentials. This example creates both types of credentials.

Creating IPMI Credentials

Procedure for using IPMI protocol to discover a SPARC T7 series server or SPARC T5 series server using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

Use this procedure to create credentials using the IPMI protocol.

  1. Click Plan Management on the Navigation pane, then click Credentials.
  2. Click Create Credentials on the Actions pane. The Create Credentials wizard opens.
  3. Select IPMI from the drop-down list in the Protocol field.
  4. Enter a name for the discovery credentials in the Name field.
  5. Enter a description for your credentials in the Description field.
  6. Enter the user name of the service processor login credentials in the Login User field.
  7. Enter the password of the service processor login credentials in the Password field. Then, retype the same password in the Confirm Password field.
  8. Click Create. The IPMI credentials are displayed in the Credentials table.
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Creating SSH Credentials

Procedure for using SSH protocol to discover a SPARC T7 series server or SPARC T5 series server using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

Use ILOM SSH credentials to discover ILOM service processors. They can also be used to discover operating systems.

  1. Click Plan Management on the Navigation pane, then click Credentials.
  2. Click Create Credentials on the Actions pane. The Create Credentials wizard appears.
  3. Select SSH from the drop-down list in the Protocol field.
  4. Enter a name for the discovery credentials in the Name field.
  5. Enter a description for your credentials in the Description field.
  6. Enter the user name of the service processor credentials in the Login User field.
  7. Enter the password of the service processor credentials in the Password field. Retype the same password in the Confirm Password field.
  8. Accept the default SSH port number or change it to the port used by the service processor.
  9. Click Create. The SSH credentials are displayed in the Credentials table.

Creating a Discovery Profile

Use a profile to discover assets in Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center and to repeat the discovery operation.

Discovery profiles simplify managing multiple sets of criteria and provide persistent storage of access credentials. You create a discovery profile and then use it to discover assets that match the criteria. This example includes the credentials and network information in the discovery profile, but you can provide this information at the time you run the discovery job.

Creating a Discovery Profile for an ILOM Service Processor

Procedure for creating a discovery profile to discover an ILOM server using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

Use this procedure to create a discovery profile for an ILOM service processor:
  1. Click Plan Management in the Navigation pane.
  2. Click Discovery under Profiles and Policies.
  3. Click Create Profile in the Actions pane. The Create Profile - Discovery wizard appears.
  4. Enter a name and a description.
  5. Select ILOM Service Processor in the Asset Type, under Server Hardware. Click Next.
  6. The Tags page appears. Tags are optional and are not used in this example. Click Next.
  7. The IP Ranges page appears. You can add the IP address for your SPARC T5 server or IP ranges for multiple servers in the IP Ranges page or do it later when you run the Add Assets job. Click Next.
  8. Click Select in the Discovery Credentials dialog and choose the IPMI and SSH credentials that you have created. Click Next.
  9. Review the summary information, then click Finish to create a Discovery Profile.

Using the Discovery Profile

Procedure for using a discovery profile to discover an ILOM server using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

After you have created the discovery profile, use it to discover and manage the server:

  1. Click All Assets in the Assets section of the Navigation pane.
  2. Click Add Assets in the Actions pane.
  3. Select Add and manage various types of assets via discovery probes, then click Next.
  4. Select the discovery profile created in the previous section (see Creating a Discovery Profile).
  5. Enter the host name or IP address for the SPARC server's service processor, then click Add Now to launch the discovery job. You can also discover multiple servers using an IP range. This might take a few minutes to complete.

After the discovery job completes successfully, the service processor is visible in the Navigation pane under the Servers tree, located in the Assets pane as shown in the following figure.

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What's Next?

Description of post-discovery tasks for SPARC T7 series servers or SPARC T5 series servers in Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center.

After you have discovered the server, you can manage and monitor it as a datacenter asset.

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You can also discover and manage the server’s operating system. The SPARC T7 series server uses the Oracle Solaris 11.3 operating system. The SPARC T5 series server can use either Oracle Solaris 10 or Oracle Solaris 11.

Note:

To use Oracle VM Server for SPARC software on a SPARC T5 series server, the server’s operating system be a minimum of Oracle Solaris 10 update 11.

See the Deploy Operating Systems Workflow in the Deploy How To library at http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E59957_01/nav/deploy.htm.

Related Articles and Resources

You can view a short video of this procedure, Discovering and Managing a SPARC T7 Series Server or SPARC T5 Series Server, located in the documentation library.

See the following for more information:

For more information about SPARC servers and ILOM configuration, see the SPARC Systems library and the Systems Management and Diagnostics library in the Servers, Systems Management, Workstations, and Related Hardware section of http://docs.oracle.com.

Oracle® Enterprise Manager Ops Center Discover and Manage SPARC T5 Series Servers and SPARC T7 Series Servers, 12c Release 3 (12.3.2.0.0)

E60000-03

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