Owner's Manual

4 Contents
Inventory Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Reporting
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Task Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Software Updates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Power and Performance Monitoring
. . . . . . . . 28
Application Launch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Troubleshooting Tool
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
User Preferences
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Topology View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Privilege Levels in the IT Assistant UI. . . . . . . . . . 29
Other Information You May Need
. . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2 Getting Started With Dell
OpenManage IT Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3 What’s New for Dell OpenManage
IT Assistant Version 8.7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
New Features and Enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
. . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
. . . . . . . 35
Enhancement to Microsoft
Windows 7 Support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Support for New Alerts
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Features From Previous Releases
. . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Power Distribution Unit (PDU)
and UPS Traps
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Integrated Secure Digital (SD)
Card Traps
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Enclosures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Controller Cards
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37