Users Guide

What’s New in the Connection 3.5? 7
What’s New in the Connection 3.5?
Dell™ OpenManage™ Connection for Tivoli Enterprise Console
®
is hereafter referred to as the
Connection.
NOTE: Starting with Dell OpenManage 5.0, Dell OpenManage Array Manager is no longer an installable
option. If you have an Array Manager installation and need information on how to migrate from Array Manager
to Storage Management, refer to the product documentation prior to Storage Management 2.1 or Dell
OpenManage 5.1. Support for Array Manager has been withdrawn from the Dell PowerEdge™ Installation and
Server Management
CD version 5.0 and later.
Before You Begin
Read the installation requirements to ensure that your system meets or exceeds the minimum
requirements. See the "Connection Installation Prerequisites." Read the Connection readme file,
which contains the latest information about software, firmware, and driver versions, in addition to
information about known issues. The file is posted to the Systems Management documentation
page on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
Connection Installation Prerequisites
The following are system prerequisites for installing the Connection on a managed system:
• Microsoft
®
Windows
®
2000 operating system or later
• Event Adapter version 3.8 or 3.9
• Dell OpenManage Server Administrator version 1.6 or later
• Event classes loaded into Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) rule base from the
tecad_win.fmt file
• Installation of the following files:
dellomam.fmt , dellomsa3.fmt or dellomsa2.fmt , and dellomsm.fmt .
Table 2-1 maps the
.fmt files with the respective components supported by the Connection.
Table 2-1. File Mapping With Components Supported by the Connection
File Name Components
dellomam.fmt Array Manager
dellomsa3.fmt Server Administrator 1.8 and later
dellomsa2.fmt Server Administrator 1.6 and 1.7
dellomsm.fmt Storage Management