Owner's Manual

18 IT Assistant has been declared "End Of Life" : 01 Jan 2013
Identify the Systems for Remote Management
IT Assistant performs discovery and status polling, allowing system
administrators to identify systems and devices on a network by host name,
IP address, or IP subnet range. During a status poll, IT Assistant queries
the health, or status, of a system and its components. Information that is
gathered during discovery and status polling is displayed in the
management console and written to the IT Assistant database. The default
database packaged with IT Assistant is the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
Express Edition. If you require a more powerful database, use Microsoft SQL
Server 2008 R2, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, or Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
Generate a Consolidated View of All Your Systems
IT Assistant allows system administrators to take actions on managed systems
from the management console. Using IT Assistant, you can create tasks that
apply to a single system or each system in a group, create dynamic groups of
systems to facilitate management, and conduct inventory on any system.
In addition, IT Assistant provides a consolidated launch point for the
following Dell systems management applications and devices:
• Dell OpenManage Server Administrator
• Remote Access Console
• Dell OpenManage Switch Administrator
• Digital keyboard/video/mouse (KVM)
•Printers
•Tapes
•Storage devices
• Client systems and
• Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) devices
Create Alert Filters and Actions
You can use IT Assistant to create alert filters to isolate alerts that are of
greatest interest to a system administrator. System administrators can then
create corresponding alert actions that are triggered when the criteria used to
define the alert filter are met. For example, IT Assistant can alert a system
administrator when a server fan is in warning or critical state. By creating a