Owner's Manual

Contents 3
Contents
1 IT Assistant has been declared
"End Of Life" : 01 Jan 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Introducing Dell OpenManage IT Assistant. . . . . . . 17
Simplifying System Administration
. . . . . . . . . . . 17
Identify the Systems for
Remote Management
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Generate a Consolidated View of
All Your Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Create Alert Filters and Actions
. . . . . . . . . . 18
Create Customized Discovery and
Inventory Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Create Tasks That Enable Configuration
Management From a Central Console . . . . . . . 20
Install Dell Agents on Dell Systems
. . . . . . . . 21
Measure the Performance of Systems . . . . . . . 21
Monitor the Power and Energy Consumption
of Dell Systems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Components of IT Assistant
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
User Interface
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
IT Assistant Services Tier
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Managed System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Utilities
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Integrated Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Native Install
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
User Interface and Online Help
. . . . . . . . . . 24
Single Sign-On
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25