Owner's Manual
26 Introducing Dell OpenManage IT Assistant
You can also customize the view of the package information by operating
system, component name, system type, and software type. You can also
update only part of the system sets by using the custom bundle feature.
To use the software update feature, select Manage Software Updates. For
more information, see the Software Update topic in the IT Assistant Online
Help.
Power and Performance Monitoring
Performance Monitoring helps you monitor the performance of a group of
devices with supported Windows or Linux operating systems over a specified
period of time. The power monitoring feature helps you to collect, store,
and display the instantaneous values of power (watts) consumed, amperes
drawn by each power supply, and the total energy consumed by a device.
Application Launch
IT Assistant provides a consolidated launch point for the following Dell systems
management applications: Server Administrator, Array Manager, Remote
Access Console, CMC Console, Dell OpenManage Switch Administrator,
Digital keyboard/video/mouse (KVM), printers, tapes, storage devices,
Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) devices, and client
systems. For more information, see the Application Launch topic in the
IT Assistant Online Help.
NOTE: Network Address Translation (NAT) is not a supported configuration on
IT Assistant. Therefore, application launch does not work in conjunction with NAT,
even though IT Assistant successfully discovers the managed systems. You should
use IT Assistant to connect only to the IP address with which a system was
discovered. Other IP addresses available on the system may not be accessible
to IT Assistant. In many implementations, such as a server farm or load balancer
implementation, the system will be behind a NAT. In such environments, IT
Assistant will fail to connect to Server Administrator running on those systems.
Troubleshooting Tool
A graphical troubleshooting tool is available at To ol sTroubleshooting Tool to
diagnose and resolve discovery and configuration problems, including SNMP
and Common Information Model (CIM) related issues. You can also use the
tool to test device and e-mail connectivity.
For more information, see the IT Assistant Online Help.