Owner's Manual

42 What’s New for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Version 8.7
NOTE: To discover ESX Server hosts, you must configure IPMI on the ESX Server
host as well. For more information, see the white paper on Managing Dell
PowerEdge Servers Using IPMItool
on the Dell website at www.dell.com.
Click View Refresh in the Devices view to:
• View the virtual machines’ names in the Device Details page of the host;
if you have discovered the host before the virtual machines.
• Move the virtual machines’ names from
Unknown to Guest Devices under
VMware ESX Server in the Device tree; if you have discovered the virtual
machine before the host.
NOTE: Right-click the host name and select Refresh Inventory if the virtual
machine state has changed, or if you have moved the virtual machine to a different
host.
Starting with IT Assistant 8.1, you can generate reports of virtual machines
using the pre-defined virtual machine report. For more information,
see "Custom Reporting" on page 172.
Display of VFlash Media, iDRAC6 Express and iDRAC6
Enterprise information
The VFlash Media, Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 (iDRAC6)
Express and iDRAC6 Enterprise enables On-board Server Diagnostics and
the Unified Server Configurator for firmware update, hardware configuration
including RAID creation and OS deployment, available from the BIOS during
system boot.
IT Assistant displays information on VFlash Media and iDRAC6 Express
information in the iDRAC information table and iDRAC6 Enterprise details
in the Field Replacement Unit table in the Device details page.
Application Launch for IPv6 URLs
You can launch Dell OpenManage Server Administrator from IT Assistant
using IPv6 URL in a network consisting of systems that have both IPv4 and
IPv6 addresses. However, the device discovery feature of IT Assistant,
still uses the IPv4 addresses.
Enhancement to Out-of-band Management Capability
On xx1x systems, iDRAC6 allows for out-of-band SNMP management.
You can use both SNMP and IPMI for out-of-band management.