Owner's Manual
38 What’s New for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Version 8.6?
IT Assistant does not use VMware APIs for host or guest discovery or
correlation. IT Assistant supports discovery of VMware host only with SNMP.
On discovering a VMware host IT Assistant creates a custom group with the
string Host_<hostname (IP, DNS name etc)>.
IT Assistant supports discovery of a Windows guest with both SNMP and
CIM and Linux guests can be discovered only with SNMP. CIM, WMI or
SNMP must be enabled on guests for successful discovery.
On discovering a guest IT Assistant lists the guests under the
Host_<hostname> group only when the host is also discovered in
IT Assistant. The discovered guest has a briefcase icon. There is also an
additional entry of the guest under the Unknown group. IT Assistant lists the
guest only under Unknown group if the host is not discovered in IT Assistant
or if the guest does not respond to the discovery protocol.
Dynamic VMware Host Group
IT Assistant discovers VMware ESX Server
systems. Each host is discovered
under the Device Group VMware ESX Servers Hosts. For each host,
IT Assistant creates a new group Host_<
hostname
>. The ESX Server host
and virtual machines (on discovery) are added as child nodes in this group.
Also, IT Assistant automatically updates the host configuration if a virtual
machine moves from one host to another. You are not required to manually
refresh the inventory of the source or destination hosts to reflect the
change in hosts.
NOTE: IT Assistant automatically displays the new status of the virtual machine
provided you set the trap destination correctly in the host system. For more
information, see the VMware Basic Administration Guide on the Dell Support
website at support.dell.com/manuals.
Citrix XenServer Performance and power
monitoring, alerting, application
launch, tasks, software updates,
and inventory
Grouping of host and guests
on the Devices tree and
display of host-guest
association information.
Table 3-1. IT Assistant Support for Virtualization
(continued)
Virtualization
Environment
IT Assistant Features Supported IT Assistant Features Not
Supported