Owner's Manual

Introduction 19
How can I enable my managed devices so I can manage them using
Dell Management Console?
For Dell PowerEdge™ systems using the SNMP and WMI protocols,
the Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator should be installed on
the managed system to get the most manageability.
You can manage other non-server devices if protocols and credentials have
been correctly set up in Dell Management Console. For example, if you
want to manage a network printer, it should be SNMP-enabled and the
community string should be defined in Dell Management Console
Connection Profile settings. For more information, see “Connection Profiles
and Credentials Management.”
Monitoring Health Out-of-band health
monitoring through
IPMI*
Required for
agent-based
health monitoring
through SNMP
Not required
Events and Alerting Basic IPMI platform
event traps (PET) only
Required for
comprehensive
hardware events
Not required
Hardware
configuration tasks
NA Required Not required
Deploying the
Dell agent—Server
Administrator
NA NA Required
Patch
(firmware/drivers/
BIOS) management
NA NA Required
Monitor Operating
System Performance
Will monitor on
Windows agentless
through WMI/IPMI*
Required if IPMI*
is not
enabled/available
Required for
systems running
on Linux
* IPMI is available on Dell PowerEdge™ x 8 xx servers or later.
Table 1-1. Supported Features by Agents (continued)
Feature No Agent Dell OpenManage
Server
Administrator
Altiris Agent
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