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Dell OpenManage Essentials v1.1 – Supporting Dell Client Devices
Contents
Executive Summary................................................................................................... 5
Introduction ........................................................................................................... 5
Scope ................................................................................................................... 5
Assumption ............................................................................................................ 5
What is supported? ................................................................................................... 5
Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation ......................................................................... 6
Prerequisites .......................................................................................................... 6
Discovery and Inventory ............................................................................................. 7
Inventoried Information with and without OMCI ................................................................ 9
Hardware Logs ....................................................................................................... 10
Warranty information ............................................................................................... 11
Warranty report .................................................................................................... 12
Viewing information and renewing warranty .................................................................. 12
Internal health alerts ............................................................................................... 14
Command line - Remote tasks ..................................................................................... 16
Running command-line tasks and configuring custom scripts ................................................ 17
Recommendations ................................................................................................... 21
Known behavior for OME v1.1 ..................................................................................... 21
Troubleshooting tips ................................................................................................ 21
Not able to discover client device ............................................................................... 22
Hardware Logs for the client Device do not display .......................................................... 23
Learn More ............................................................................................................ 24
Conclusion ............................................................................................................ 24
Tables
Table 1. Feature comparison with/without OMCI ............................................................. 6
Table 2. Discovery and inventory details with/without OMCI ............................................... 9
Figures
Figure 1. Specifying IP address, host name, and subnet mask. .............................................. 7
Figure 2. Discovery Range Configuration – clear the Enable SNMP discovery check box. ................ 8
Figure 3. Discovery Configuration – Enable WMI discovery. ................................................... 8
Figure 4. Clients discovered and classified in the device tree ............................................... 9