Reference Guide

Introduction

Dell OpenManage Essentials is a hardware management application that provides a comprehensive view of Dell systems, devices,

and components in your environment. This document lists the agents, devices, operating systems, and databases supported by Dell

OpenManage Essentials version 2.2.

NOTE: For the list of devices supported by Dell SupportAssist for OpenManage Essentials, see the

Dell SupportAssist

for OpenManage Essentials Support Matrix

at dell.com/serviceabilitytools.

Supported agents

NOTE: For more information on the devices listed in this document, see the documentation for that device.

Table 1. Agents supported by Dell OpenManage Essentials

Dell systems agents Supported version

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator 7.x or later

Dell Lifecycle Controller

For Dell’s 12th and 13th generation of PowerEdge servers —

2.15.10.10 or later

For 11th generation of PowerEdge servers — 1.6.x or later

Chassis Management Controller (CMC)

For PowerEdge M1000e — 5.1 or later

For PowerEdge VRTX — 2.1 or later

For PowerEdge FX2 and FX2s — 1.3 or later

iDRAC7 and iDRAC 8 2.20.20.20 or later

NOTE: Make sure that Express or Enterprise licenses

are available to perform firmware updates.

iDRAC6

For monolithic systems — 1.98 or later

For modular systems — 3.65 or later

Dell Command Monitor (previously Dell OpenManage Client

Instrumentation)

9.1 or later

Dell Networking OS 9.10.0.0

NOTE: The IOA-related features such as capturing,

cloning, deploying the IOA configuration, and application

launch are supported in Dell OpenManage Essentials

version 2.2 only with Networking OS version 9.10.0.0.

9.10.0.0, 9.10.0.1P10 and 9.11.0.0

NOTE: The IOA-related features such as capturing,

cloning, deploying the IOA configuration, and application

launch are supported in Dell OpenManage Essentials

version 2.2.0.1 (available in http://www.dell.com/

support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?

driverid=69WDP) for above mentioned FTOS versions.