Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials This Dell technical white paper provides step-by-step instructions for migrating from Dell IT Assistant to Dell OpenManage Essentials.
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Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Contents Executive summary ................................................................................................... 4 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 4 Off-box migration from Dell IT Assistant to OpenManage Essentials ......................................... 4 Backing up your Dell IT Assistant database .....................................................
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Executive summary Dell OpenManage Essentials (OME) is designed and implemented to replace the legacy Dell IT Assistant product. It provides easy migration from your existing Dell IT Assistant (ITA) instance to OpenManage Essentials in the following two scenarios.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 1. Launching the Backup Database window 3. Click Tasks ->Backup.
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Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 3. The Backup Database window 4. Click OK. A message displays confirming that the backup has completed successfully.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 4. Successful backup message The default location of the database backup file is: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Backup\ Restoring your Dell IT Assistant database 1. Log in to Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio either as server administrator, or as a user with sysadmin rights. 2. Right-click on the Databases database, then select Restore Database.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 5. Selecting the restore operation.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 6. The Restore Database window 3. In the To Database field, type ITAssist.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 7. The To Database field. 4. Click the From device option button.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 8. The From device field. 5. Browse to the location where the ITAssist.bak file was saved.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 9. Finding the backup database file. 6. Click Add. 7. Browse to the location where ITAssist.bak is saved, and select the file. 8. Click OK.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 10. Selecting backup database file. 9. Select the database to be restored from the list.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 11. Selecting the database to be restored. 10. Click OK.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 12. Successful restore message A message displays confirming that the restore operation has completed successfully. Migration from Dell IT Assistant to OpenManage Essentials Most of the Dell IT Assistant data will be migrated except for update packages and ITA tasks. OpenManage Essentials has new functionality related to Out of Band inventory and updates for Dell PowerEdge 11th and 12th generation servers.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 13. Figure 14.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 15. Welcome to Dell OpenManage Essentials 1.1 A message displays confirming that the upgrade operation has completed successfully.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 16. Important Changes Requiring Attention. In previous versions of OpenManage Essentials, a server and RAC device (IDRAC5, IDRAC6 and IDRAC7) discovered and inventoried together showing up as separate devices in the Device tree. In OME1.1 there is no distinction between servers and their RAC. If both server and RAC are discovered together they show up in both the places in the Device Tree with the same name and information.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials Figure 17. Overview of steps you must complete. To take advantage of new features, perform discovery and inventory for all discovery ranges after the migration\upgrade. This updates the device tree with the new classifications for servers, RACs and CMCs. Figure 18. Running discovery and inventory for existing ranges.
Dell IT Assistant Migration To OpenManage Essentials To perform discovery for all existing ranges: 1. Multi-select all ranges from All Ranges then right click and select Perform Discovery and Inventory Now. 2. Under the Discovery Range Summary, select all ranges. Then right click Perform Discovery and Inventory Now. Figure 19. Verify User Queries. The upgrade process handles most of this migration, but there are certain cases that are not migrated if the RAC device name was used as part of the query.
