Owner's Manual

44 What’s New for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Version 8.7
• Configure additional attributes, such as e-mail notification
• Configure automatic downloads and imports to the IT Assistant repository
NOTE: IT Assistant version 8.1 and later download only hardware packages
(BIOS, firmware, and drivers), and not software (OpenManage) packages.
Simplified Repository View
The Software Update view in IT Assistant displays a simplified view of the
repositories by default. In this view you will only see the update
packages/bundles that correspond to at least one device on your network.
To view all update packages/bundles available in the repositories (as seen in
earlier IT Assistant versions), select the Classic View.
Compliance Tool
IT Assistant provides an easy launch point on the user interface (UI) to
generate a comprehensive compliance report for the systems being managed.
It evaluates each system for current status of BIOS, firmware, and drivers
against the update packages/bundles imported into the IT Assistant repository.
The output is available in easy-to-use Microsoft Excel format.
Power Monitoring
You can use IT Assistant to set thresholds for power management using the
Server Administrator command line interface (CLI) as well as for power
consumption reporting. Power Monitoring is supported on Microsoft Windows,
Linux, and VMware ESX Server and Citrix Xenserver operating systems.
NOTE: This feature is supported only on systems that have PMBus capability and
requires Server Administrator 5.3 or later to be installed on the system.
Dell Client Manager Launch
IT Assistant displays Dell Client Manager (DCM) launch point for those devices
that have Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation 7.4 or later installed.
NOTE: The IT Assistant user interface should be running on a Microsoft Windows
operating system for the DCM Web page to display.