Setup Guide

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Systems Management Using Dell
OpenManage
Dell™ OpenManage™ Systems Management Software Suite is a suite of
system management applications for managing Dell™ PowerEdge™ systems.
This section lists the features available in OpenManage that are supported in
Citrix
®
XenServer
®
Dell™ Edition. This section also points out specific tasks
that are not supported.
For more information on each of these features, see the Dell Systems
Management: OpenManage website at dell.com/openmanage.
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator provides single server management
with a secure command line or web-based graphical management user
interface. Citrix XenServer Dell Edition comes pre-installed with the majority
of OpenManage Server Administrator components, providing a ready-to-use
systems management framework without any additional software installation
requirement.
There are several sub-components in Server Administrator which are
described below.
• Instrumentation Services — Provides hardware instrumentation and
configuration information.
•
Storage Management — Provides monitoring and instrumentation of the
storage connected to the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) and
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) families of controllers.