Smooth operator
Date
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10/1/2010
The Dell™ Chassis Management Controller (CMC) is a management tool embedded in Dell PowerEdge™ M1000e modular blade enclosures that provides powerful functionality to help administrators simply and easily manage blade servers and blade server enclosures. Functionality available in the CMC includes dynamic power management, blade server component monitoring, and real-time reporting of power consumption, temperature, and other indices of blade server and chassis health.
To help make chassis management even easier and more intuitive than using traditional management tools, Dell substantially redesigned the CMC interface for version 3.0. In particular, the development team wanted to dramatically enhance the simplicity and usability of the management tool — with the goal of enabling busy system administrators to spend as little time as possible managing servers, leaving them with additional time for other, increasingly complex tasks. Administrators can perform key monitoring and management tasks such as power cycling, power management and error diagnosis from a single Web-style page, including monitoring up to 16 blades on a single screen.
By combining enhanced graphics and usability features with extensive user feedback using the Agile programming methodology, the user-driven design of CMC 3.0 helps deliver robust, streamlined functionality through an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. Building on the design process of CMC 3.0, Dell plans to incorporate the same look, feel and design methodology across the Dell OpenManage™ systems management suite to help simplify management, streamline operations and enhance administrator productivity.
To help make chassis management even easier and more intuitive than using traditional management tools, Dell substantially redesigned the CMC interface for version 3.0. In particular, the development team wanted to dramatically enhance the simplicity and usability of the management tool — with the goal of enabling busy system administrators to spend as little time as possible managing servers, leaving them with additional time for other, increasingly complex tasks. Administrators can perform key monitoring and management tasks such as power cycling, power management and error diagnosis from a single Web-style page, including monitoring up to 16 blades on a single screen.
By combining enhanced graphics and usability features with extensive user feedback using the Agile programming methodology, the user-driven design of CMC 3.0 helps deliver robust, streamlined functionality through an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. Building on the design process of CMC 3.0, Dell plans to incorporate the same look, feel and design methodology across the Dell OpenManage™ systems management suite to help simplify management, streamline operations and enhance administrator productivity.