Dell Server Management Pack Suite: Feature Management Dashboard is not populated with the available features or is empty

Problem: after installing the Dell Server Management Pack suite 5.0.1 and on launching the SCOM (OpsMgr) console, the Feature Management Dashboard under Dell folder is shown empty (refer screenshot below.)

Solution:

To populate the Feature Management Dashboard, run the installer on all the Management servers. As a pre-requisite, the Feature Management Dashboard requires that the Dell Server Management Pack Suite 5.0.1 be installed on all the management servers.

After installing the Dell Server Management Pack Suite 5.0.1, the Feature Management Dashboard will be populated with all the features in the subsequent discovery cycle (that may take up to a day which is the normal schedule.) To get it to update faster than the normal discovery cycle, please refer the next section below.

After the discoveries run, your Feature Management dashboard should look like the screenshot below.

Faster update of the Feature Management Dashboard:

Alternatively, you could override the following:

Discoveries:

1. Dell Registry based Server Management Suite Discovery interval seconds to a minimum of 10 minutes.
2. Dell Feature Management Host Discovery interval seconds to a minimum of 15 minutes.

After overriding the discoveries, please wait for 5 minutes before overriding the below rule.

Rules:

1. MonitoringFeature Discovery Periodic Trigger Rule to a minimum of 10 minutes.

Please save the overrides in a management pack and delete it after the Feature Management Dashboard gets updated. This will set the workflows to the normal schedule intervals.

Note: if the overrides are not deleted, the related workflows will be scheduled at the intervals specified by the overrides causing the resource consumption to go high on the Management Server.

Additional alternative:

The Feature Management dashboard packaged with the EqualLogic MP suite does not have the pre-requisite of installing the MP suite on all the Management servers. So, installing the Feature Management Dashboard using the EqualLogic MP suite is another alternative.

Useful documents/ links:

1. Please refer Dell Server Management Pack Suite 5.0.1 Install Guide for more details.

Dell TechCenter link for blogs, videos, whitepapers on Dell Server Management Pack Suite 5.0.1.