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Dell KACE and OpenManage Essentials

Using the Managed Installation functionality of the K1000, the OMSA agent may be installed on multiple

machines, greatly simplifying the deployment of the overall solution. The managed installation will

transfer the installation package for OMSA to the target servers and execute the installation using the

supplied installation parameters as shown below:

K1000 managed installations Figure 5.

Managing system configurations

When OMSA is deployed to a server version of the Windows operating system of a Dell PowerEdge

Server, it introduces Dell CIM instrumentation providers that deliver a WMI namespace

(\\root\CIMv2\Dell) with several new classes and extensions to existing classes for managing

devices within the Dell PowerEdge chassis and their associated applications and events. OpenManage

Essentials leverages these CIM providers in its data collection for these devices as part of its core

functionality. The Dell|KACE K1000 appliance can also collect this information as part of its inventory

by defining custom inventory fields against the provided namespace.