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Dell™ Client Management Pack
Operations
Overview
This chapter describes the various operations that you can perform on
Microsoft
®
Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) or Systems Center
Essentials (SCE) using the Dell Client Management Pack version 4.0. The
client management pack allows you to perform the following operations to
manage
Dell Client systems :
• Discover Dell Latitude™, Precision™, Optiplex™, and Vostro™ business
computers running supported Client Windows operating systems.
NOTE: Vostro systems are displayed under the UnManaged group.
– Monitor the Dell OpenManage™ Client Instrumentation (OMCI)
service
• Group Dell clients without instrumentation under the
UnManaged group.
• Check the health status for client hardware components by polling at
periodic intervals, and update the state of each component in
the diagram view.
A health status is a standardized description of the functional performance
of a component, system, service, server, or application. For more
information, see "State Components and Severity Levels".
• Perform client shutdown and reboot tasks.
• Generate reports on Dell Windows event logs and OMCI events from the
managed system's Windows Event Log.
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