Owner's Manual
156 Managing Tasks
Creating a Device Control Task
A device control task helps you to power control a system through
IT Assistant.
To perform these tasks in IT Assistant, perform the following steps:
1
Select
Manage
Ta sk s
and right-click
Device Control
in the left
navigation pane.
2
Select
New Task
.
The Task Creation wizard appears.
3
Enter a
Task Name
, then choose, for example,
Shutdown Device
from the
Task Typ e
pull-down menu and click
Next
.
4
From the
Select Shutdown Type
window, choose:
a
Reboot
to reboot
a troublesome server that may have issued several
e-mail alerts
b
Power Cycle (if supported)
. This option performs a power cycle when
IT Assistant communicates to the system through Dell
instrumentation using the SNMP. The power to the device is turned
off and turned on again after a pause. When the power is restored, the
device is restarted.
NOTE: Power Cycle is not supported on client devices.
c
Power Off
to power down the system.
d
Shutdown Operating System first
. This option performs a graceful
shutdown of the operating system before performing the selected
shutdown action.
NOTE: Shutdown Operating System first will not display for ASF-
enabled devices.
5
In the
Enter Credentials
window, enter the authentication parameters
required for out-of-band
access to ASF-enabled devices
6
In the
Device Selection
window, select the devices/groups on which you want
to run the command line task or provide a query.
7
Under
Select Schedule
, you can either schedule the task to run at a
specified time, or run the task immediately.