Owner's Manual

40 What’s New for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Version 8.6?
Starting with IT Assistant 8.1, you can generate reports of virtual machines
using the pre-defined virtual machine report. For more information,
see "Custom Reporting".
Display of VFlash Media, iDRAC6 Express and iDRAC6
Enterprise information
The VFlash Media, iDRAC6 Express and iDRAC6 Enterprise enables
On-board Server Diagnostics and the Unified Server Configurator for
firmware update, hardware configuration including RAID creation and
OS deployment, available from the BIOS during system boot.
IT Assistant displays information on VFlash Media and iDRAC6 Express
information in the iDRAC information table and iDRAC6 Enterprise details
in the Field Replacement Unit table in the Device details page.
Application Launch for IPv6 URLs
You can launch Dell OpenManage Server Administrator from IT Assistant
using IPv6 URL in a network consisting of systems that have both IPv4 and
IPv6 addresses. However, the device discovery feature of IT Assistant,
still uses the IPv4 addresses.
Enhancement to Out-of-band Management Capability
On xx1x systems, iDRAC6 allows for out-of-band SNMP management.
You can use both SNMP and IPMI for out-of-band management.
Secure Shell (SSH) Connectivity Troubleshooting
The troubleshooting tool of IT Assistant has been enhanced to detect the
cause of SSH connection failure. You can use the SSH troubleshooting
feature of IT Assistant to determine failures such as incorrect credentials,
SSH daemon not running, SSH port blocked by the firewall, SSH not running
on the configured port and so on, for Linux systems. A common scenario
where this test can be run, is to detect failure of the performance or power
monitoring task on the target Linux system.