Owner's Manual

Planning Your Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Installation 47
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Planning Your Dell OpenManage
IT Assistant Installation
It is important to plan before installing Dell™ OpenManage™ IT Assistant.
Depending on your company's network management objectives, you could
use IT Assistant:
• primarily as a discovery and status polling tool that quickly scans the
network to retrieve managed system information
• to receive and forward alerts to support personnel about problems on
specific managed systems
• for performance and power monitoring to update firmware and drivers
across your network
• as a tool to run scheduled tasks across your network.
Decisions That You Make Before Installation
After you have determined your network size and network management
objectives, you must then make configuration decisions specific to your
network management goals. If your network is well established and you
already have a well-defined IT Assistant management plan, many of these
decision-points may have already been addressed. Pre-installation planning
includes choosing the following:
• Event filtering and notification strategy
• Database that will be used to store IT Assistant data
• Hardware configuration
• Operating system