Owner's Manual

Utilities in Dell OpenManage IT Assistant 277
This command displays a dialog box that lists commands that you can use to
do the following:
• Install the appropriate database engine (Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE)
for IT Assistant version 7.x and earlier or SQL Server 2005 Express
Edition
SP2
for IT Assistant version 8.2 and later).
• Start and stop the database engine.
• Attach and detach database files to and from the database engine.
• Import and export tables and databases.
NOTE: Due to the differences in the way that Microsoft encrypts data
between operating system versions, exporting IT Assistant database tables
with encrypted passwords from one version of a Microsoft operating system
(for example, Windows 2000) and importing into another version (for example,
Windows 2003) is not supported.
•Clear tables.
• Restore data for the global IT Assistant configuration or the event
management system configuration only.
Help
• Command: dcdbmng /h or dcdbmng /H or dcdbmng /?
• Description: Displays the command line options.
Attach Database
• Command: dcdbmng /A path or dcdbmng /a path
• Description: Attaches the single database file specified by
path to the SQL
Server 2005 Express
Edition SP2 or the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2.
Clear Table
• Command: dcdbmng /Z tablename or dcdbmng /z tablename
• Description: Removes all the rows from the specified table, but does not
delete the table.