DELL Version 5.3 User Manual

Why Dell OpenManage Network Manager? | 

The following are some key features of Dell OpenManage Network Manager:

You can customize the web portal, even providing custom designed views of your data assigned to 

individual users. You can even create web portal accounts for departments, geographic areas, or 

other criteria.

Device discovery populates Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s database and begins network 

analysis. You can also create network discovery schedules to automatically run Discovery whenever 

you need them.

You can now conduct administrative tasks—adding devices, user accounts, and web portal 

displays—from a secure console on your network. 

Dell OpenManage Network Manager supports industry standards. It comes with an open-source 

MySQL database, and supports using Oracle databases. It also uses industry-standard MIBs and 

protocols, and even lets you install open-source screen elements like Google gadgets to the web 

portal.

The OpenManage Network Manager topology screen lets you create multi-layered, fully 

customizable, web-based maps of your network to track devices wherever they are in your network. 

You can configure custom alarms to respond to hundreds of possible network scenarios, including 

multiple condition checks. Dell OpenManage Network Manager’s alarms help you recognize issues 

before your network users experience productivity losses. Alarms can also trigger actions like email, 

executing Perl scripts, paging, SNMP traps, Syslog messaging, and external application execution.

Dell OpenManage Network Manager lets you investigate network issues with traps and Syslog 

messages. You can use Dell OpenManage Network Manager to set up events / alarms and then 

receive, process, forward, and send syslog and trap messages.