Users Guide

Configuring IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems 31
Configuring IT Assistant to Monitor
Your Systems
Dell OpenManage™ IT Assistant can discover, inventory, and perform a variety of change
management tasks for each system in your enterprise. Managed systems can include a mixture of
client systems (desktops, portables, and workstations), servers, systems with remote access cards,
Dell™ PowerConnect™ switches, and digital keyboard/video/mouse (KVMs) switches used with
rack-dense systems.
IT Assistant in Real-World User Scenarios
This section illustrates how IT Assistant can be used in two different customer scenarios:
• A small-to-medium size business
• A large enterprise environment
Although fictional, both scenarios presented in this section illustrate how administrators in charge of
managing network environments might configure IT Assistant. While many configuration concepts
are the same for both scenarios, others depend on the type and number of systems being managed.
Use the scenario that best suits your situation as a general guide for configuring IT Assistant.
Regardless of the size of your network, it is useful to read through both scenarios to gain a more
complete understanding of IT Assistant procedures and concepts.
NOTE: Neither scenario shown in this section is intended to illustrate the full capabilities of IT Assistant.
Based on your enterprise, you may choose to use options and features in IT Assistant not shown here. For
more information on IT Assistant’s full range of capabilities, see the IT Assistant online help.
Having Multiple Java Runtime Environments On Your System
IT Assistant uses Java Runtime Environment version J2SE 1.5.0. However, you can also use an older
version of JRE in conjunction with version 1.5.0.
Switching Between Various Versions of the JRE
NOTE: For more information, see Sun Microsystem’s J2SE 1.5.0 documentation at:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/deployment/deployment-guide/jcp.html, and navigate to theJava
Applet Runtime Settings section.
If the system you use to invoke the IT Assistant console is also used to run applets that use a
different version of the JRE, perform the following steps. These steps enable you to switch between
two versions of the JRE.