Owner's Manual

Managing Tasks 165
4 From the Select Shutdown Type window, choose:
a Reboot to reboot a troublesome server that may have issued several
e-mail alerts
b Power Cycle (if supported) . This option performs a power cycle when
IT Assistant communicates to the system through Dell
instrumentation using the SNMP. The power to the device is turned
off and turned on again after a pause. When the power is restored, the
device is restarted.
NOTE: Power Cycle is not supported on client devices.
c Power Off to power down the system.
d Shutdown Operating System first . This option performs a graceful
shutdown of the operating system before performing the selected
shutdown action.
NOTE: Shutdown Operating System first will not display for ASF-enabled
devices.
5 In the Enter Credentials window, enter the authentication parameters
required for out-of-band
access to ASF-enabled devices
6 In the Device Selection window, select the devices/groups on which you want
to run the command line task or provide a query.
7 Under Select Schedule , you can either schedule the task to run at a
specified time, or run the task immediately.
8 Confirm your selections in the Summary window, or choose Back to
make changes.
Tasks Available in Device Control Task
Shutdown Device (via in-band)
Choosing Shutdown Device(via in-band) allows you to specify the shutdown
operation that you want to perform.
NOTE: This task requires CIM or SNMP discovery to be enabled, or Server
Administrator to be installed on the managed node.
NOTE: The shutdown task is not supported for devices discovered using IPMI only.