Owner's Manual

What’s New for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Version 8.7 43
Secure Shell (SSH) Connectivity Troubleshooting
The troubleshooting tool of IT Assistant has been enhanced to detect the
cause of SSH connection failure. You can use the SSH troubleshooting
feature of IT Assistant to determine failures such as incorrect credentials,
SSH daemon not running, SSH port blocked by the firewall, SSH not running
on the configured port and so on, for Linux systems. A common scenario
where this test can be run, is to detect failure of the performance or power
monitoring task on the target Linux system.
Support for Server Administrator NIC Selection
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator supports configuration of additional
LAN on Motherboards (LOMs) for NIC selection (sideband interface). You
can use IT Assistant to create a Remote Server Administrator CLI task for
NIC selection.
New Search Criterion for Dynamic Groups Created Using IT Assistant
You can now use the System Revision Number criterion for searching devices
in a new group. Also, you can combine this criteria with ‘System Model’ for
retrieving information on devices that are part of new groups. For example,
search for devices that have System Model 1900 and System Revision
Number II for retrieving a list of all Dell PowerEdge 1900 II servers.
Online Synchronization Enhancement
IT Assistant inventories the systems on the network and stores the
information in the database. Based on this information, IT Assistant
intelligently decides on the packages to be downloaded. In other words,
IT Assistant downloads only those packages and bundles that correspond
to at least one managed system in your network.
Online Synchronization
You can now check the Dell FTP site at ftp.dell.com periodically for availability
of new updates. You can configure various options for online synchronization:
• Select the schedule to synchronize IT Assistant with the Dell Support website
• Configure connection settings
• Select the criteria to check for updates available on the Dell Support website