Concept Guide

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Dell Systems Management
Dell delivers management solutions that help IT Administrators effectively deploy, update, monitor, and manage IT assets. Dell
OpenManage solutions and tools allow customers to quickly respond to problems by helping them to manage Dell servers effectively
and efficiently; in physical, virtual, local, and remote environments, operating in-band and out-of-band (agent-free). The
OpenManage portfolio includes innovative embedded management tools such as the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller
(iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller.
Dell has developed comprehensive systems management solutions based on open standards and has integrated with management
consoles that can perform advanced management of Dell hardware. Dell has connected or integrated the advanced management
capabilities of Dell hardware into offerings from the industry’s top systems management vendors, thus making Dell platforms easy to
deploy, update, monitor, and manage IT environments.
If you have standardized on offerings from industry leaders such as BMC Software, Microsoft, VMware, or other vendors, you can
extend the existing systems management framework and the skills of the IT staff to efficiently manage Dell servers, storage,
business-client PCs, and networking equipments using Dell's Systems Management tools, utilities, and consoles.
Dell's systems management solution consists of a set of software products that help you to discover, monitor, manage, update, and
deploy software or firmware on Dell servers. The products focus on:
• Reducing complexity and saving time
– Eliminating need for additional utilities
– Eliminating tasks that increase time
• Achieving efficiency and controlling costs
– Improving asset management
– Optimizing resource utilization
• Empowering productivity by connecting to major systems management consoles and protecting investments
– Providing features in tools that customers choose, thus adapting to customers' mode of operation
– Automating to reduce downtime and human error
These software products are useful for administrators to control and manage Dell servers, storage, network, and client devices from
a single workstation.
This document provides a list of Dell Systems Management offerings using the Dell OpenManage Suite of products and the Dell
OpenManage Connections. The document provides overviews for different products and a feature matrix that helps you choose the
appropriate set of integrations and connections to manage your Dell systems.
Dell Systems Management Offerings
Dell’s suite of Systems Management offerings extend a wide variety of tools, products, and services. Dell’s strategy is to use an
existing systems management framework that you may be currently using.
However, if you do not have a framework, Dell provides in-house tools or tools from our partners. Dell also offers professional
services to install or train on any of the Dell products and tools along with other services to manage your environment. All the
solutions are centered on Dell’s PowerEdge server hardware management featuring iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller. For an
interactive tool to see the best Dell OpenManage tools for your datacenter environment, see online Dell OpenManage Advisor Tool.
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