Owner's Manual

4 Contents
Inventory Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Reporting
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Task Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Software Updates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Power and Performance Monitoring
. . . . . . . . 26
Application Launch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Troubleshooting Tool
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
User Preferences
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Topology View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Privilege Levels in the IT Assistant UI . . . . . . . . . 27
Other Information You May Need
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2 Getting Started With Dell
OpenManage IT Assistant 31
3 What’s New for Dell OpenManage
IT Assistant Version 8.6? 33
New Features and Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Power Distribution Unit (PDU) and UPS Traps
. . . 33
Integrated Secure Digital (SD) Card Traps . . . . . 34
New Enclosures
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New Controller Cards
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Microsoft
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Windows
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7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Features From Previous Releases . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Enhanced Software Deployment
Using IT Assistant
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Enhanced Software Update Using
Unified Server Configurator (USC) Dell
Update Packages (DUPs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Display of SSD Devices
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