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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 4.1.
The Client Management Pack allows you to perform the following operations
to manage
Dell client systems :
• Discover Dell Latitude, Precision, Optiplex, and Dell Vostro business
computers running supported Client Windows operating systems.
NOTE: Dell Vostro systems are displayed under the UnManaged group.
– Monitor the Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation (OMCI) 7.8
service, OMCI 8.0 and OMCI 8.0.1
• Group Dell Clients without instrumentation and Client systems running
without OMCI service 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, or service. For more information, see Ta s k s .
• Perform client shutdown and reboot tasks.
• Launch remote desktop for Dell Client Systems
• Generate reports on Dell Windows Event Log and OMCI events from the
managed system's Windows Event Log.
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