Owner's Manual

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Getting Started With Dell
OpenManage IT Assistant
You can use Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to monitor and manage systems on
a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), as well as identify
the groups of systems that you want to manage remotely and consolidate
your view of all systems, giving you a central launch point for managing
these systems.
Management station is the system where IT Assistant is installed. A
management station can be used to remotely manage one or more managed
systems from a central location. The systems that are monitored by
IT Assistant are called managed system.
The steps for installing and using IT Assistant are as follows:
1
"Plan your IT Assistant installation"— Depending on your company's
network management objectives, you can use IT Assistant as a discovery
and status polling tool that quickly scans the network to retrieve managed
system information, to receive and forward alerts to support personnel
about problems on specific managed systems for performance and power
monitoring, to update firmware and drivers across your network and as a
tool to run scheduled tasks across your network.
2 "Install IT Assistant" — You can download and install IT Assistant from
support.dell.com. The Dell OpenManage Management Station installer
program is used to install IT Assistant as well as other Dell OpenManage
software.
3
"Set up protocols" — You must configure the appropriate protocols
(SNMP, CIM, and IPMI) to discover the systems in your network and to
receive alerts that report the status of their components. For more
information, see "Configuring Protocols to Send Information to Dell
OpenManage IT Assistant" on page 257.