Owner's Manual

Introducing Dell OpenManage ITAssistant 19

Introducing Dell OpenManage

IT Assistant

Dell OpenManage IT Assistant provides a central point of access to monitor

and manage systems on a local area network (LAN) or wide area network

(WAN). By allowing an administrator a comprehensive view across the

enterprise, IT Assistant can increase system uptime, automate repetitive

tasks, and prevent interruption in critical business operations.

Simplifying System Administration

You can use IT Assistant to do the following:

• "Identify the Systems for Remote Management"

• "Generate a Consolidated View of All Your Systems"

• "Create Alert Filters and Actions"

• "Create Customized Discovery and Inventory Reports"

• "Create Tasks That Enable Configuration Management From a

Central Console"

• "Install Dell Agents on Dell Systems"

• "Measure the Performance of Systems"

• "Monitor the Power and Energy Consumption of Dell Systems"

Identify the Systems for Remote Management

IT Assistant performs discovery and status polling, allowing system

administrators to identify systems and devices on a network by host name,

IP address, or IP subnet range. During a status poll, IT Assistant queries

the health, or status, of a system and its components. Information that is

gathered during discovery and status polling is displayed in the

management console and written to the IT Assistant database. The default

database packaged with IT Assistant is the Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Express Edition SP2. If you require a more powerful database,

use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 or SQL Server 2000.