Users Guide

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Managing Remote Tasks
About Remote Tasks
With the Remote Tasks feature in OpenManage Essentials, you can:
• Run commands on local and remote systems, run batch les and executable les on the local systems, and schedule local and
remote tasks.
NOTE: Ensure that you run the latest commands to successfully execute the remote tasks.
NOTE: The les must be located on the system with OpenManage Essentials installed and not on the remote system.
• Change power status for a system.
• Deploy OpenManage Server Administrator on systems.
• Deploy iDRAC Service Module on systems.
• Collect rmware and driver inventory information from a server that does not have OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA)
installed.
• View the remote tasks.
• Make changes to any task by right-clicking it.
NOTE: If you stop a running task, it may take 3-4 minutes for the task to stop gracefully and the updated task status to
get reected in the console.
NOTE: The Task Execution History reects the remote tasks that you created or deleted only after a few seconds.
NOTE: When providing system credentials, if the username has spaces or periods, the username must be provided within
quotation marks. For example, "localhost\johnny marr" or "us-domain\tim verlaine". Spaces and periods can be used in
usernames for OpenMange System Administrator Tasks, Generic Command Line Tasks (local system), OpenManage
Systems Administrator Deployment Tasks. System Updates (In Band, through OpenManage System Administrator) also
support spaces and periods. Out of Band patching (through RAC device) or commands such as RACADM do not support
space or period in the username.
Managing Command Line Task
You can create custom command line tasks to run CLI commands on local and remote systems, and run batch les and executables
on local systems.
For example, you can create a custom command line task to run a security audit and gather information on the systems’ security
status.
NOTE: The Remote Server Administrator Command task requires that the Windows Management Instrumentation
service is running on the selected targets.
To create command line tasks:
1. From OpenManage Essentials, click Manage → Remote Tasks → Common Tasks → Create Command Line Task..
2. On General, provide a task name.
3. Select one of the following options:
• Remote Server Administrator Command— Select to run the server administrator command on remote servers.
• Generic Command— Select to run the command, executable le, or batch le.
• IPMI Command— Select to run the IPMI commands on the remote system.
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