Users Guide

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Reporting and Task Management
Dell OpenManage™ IT Assistant provides the ability to:
• Create customized reports for all systems in your enterprise
• Perform command line execution on managed devices from a central console, including shutdown
and wake up
• Perform software compliance checking and updates on an individual managed system
The basics of these capabilities are shown here using the same user scenarios presented in
"Configuring IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems." For more detailed information on these topics,
see the IT Assistant online help.
Custom Reporting
IT Assistant uses data from the Microsoft
®
Data Engine (MSDE) or SQL Server database to create
customized reports. These reports are based on data gathered during discovery and inventory cycles.
The devices or groups that you select to include in your report correspond to fields in the
IT Assistant database. When you execute a report, a database query is created. The following figure
provides an example.