Owner's Manual

Contents 3
Contents
1 Introducing Dell OpenManage
IT Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Simplifying System Administration . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Identify the Systems for Remote
Management
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Generate a Consolidated View
of All Your Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Create Alert Filters and Actions
. . . . . . . . . . 20
Create Customized Discovery
and Inventory Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Create Tasks That Enable Configuration
Management From a Central Console . . . . . . . 21
Install Dell Agents on Dell Systems
. . . . . . . . 21
Measure the Performance of Systems
. . . . . . . 22
Monitor the Power and Energy
Consumption of Dell Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Components of IT Assistant
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
User Interface
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
IT Assistant Services Tier
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Managed System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Utilities
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Integrated Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Native Install
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
User Interface and Online Help . . . . . . . . . . 25
Single Sign-On
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
User Authentication
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Dynamic Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26