Users Guide
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About OpenManage Essentials
OpenManage Essentials is a hardware management application that provides a comprehensive view of
Dell systems, devices, and components in the enterprise’s network. With OpenManage Essentials, a web-
based and one‑to‑many systems management application for Dell systems and other devices, you can:
• Discover and inventory the system.
• Monitor the health of the system.
• View and manage system alerts.
• Perform system updates and remote tasks.
• View hardware inventory and compliance reports.
What is New in This Release
• Enhanced scalability to support 4000 devices and 40,000 alerts.
• Support for the following features:
– Import a configuration template from a reference server or chassis, edit the template, and deploy
the template on another server or chassis.
– View the status of server or chassis compliance to an associated configuration template.
– OpenManage Essentials — Server Configuration Management license.
NOTE: Installing and using OpenManage Essentials does not require the OpenManage
Essentials — Server Configuration Management license. Only the server configuration
management feature requires that the OpenManage Essentials — Server Configuration
Management license is installed on target servers. For more information, see OpenManage
Essentials — Server Configuration Management License.
– Perform guided device discovery by selecting device types and providing the required protocol
configuration details.
– Update the firmware, BIOS, or drivers on managed nodes through the operating system without
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA).
– Deploy or update iDRAC Service Module (iSM).
– Launch the virtual console of an iDRAC configured for Single Sign-On (SSO).
– Deploy 64-bit Dell Update Packages (DUPs).
– Boot a system from a network-mounted ISO using iDRAC.
– Availability of new and additional reports.
– Availability of additional inventory information.
– Display of warranty pop-up notification for devices.
• Support for the following devices:
– Dell PowerEdge 13th generation (13G) servers.
– Dell Networking, Dell Compellent, Dell PowerVault, and Dell EqualLogic devices — support for
additional models.
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