Owner's Manual

42 What’s New for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Version 8.9
Secure Shell (SSH) Connectivity Troubleshooting
The troubleshooting tool of IT Assistant has been enhanced to detect the
cause of SSH connection failure. You can use the SSH troubleshooting
feature of IT Assistant to determine failures such as incorrect credentials,
SSH daemon not running, SSH port blocked by the firewall, SSH not running
on the configured port and so on, for Linux systems. A common scenario
where this test can be run, is to detect failure of the performance or power
monitoring task on the target Linux system.
Application Launch for IPv6 URLs
You can launch Dell OpenManage Server Administrator from IT Assistant
using IPv6 URL in a network consisting of systems that have both IPv4 and
IPv6 addresses. However, the device discovery feature of IT Assistant,
still uses the IPv4 addresses.
Enhancement to Out-of-band Management Capability
On xx1x systems, iDRAC6 allows for out-of-band SNMP management.
You can use both SNMP and IPMI for out-of-band management.
Support for Server Administrator NIC Selection
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator supports configuration of additional
LAN on Motherboards (LOMs) for NIC selection (sideband interface). You
can use IT Assistant to create a Remote Server Administrator CLI task for
NIC selection.
IT Assistant 8.3
IT Assistant Virtualization Support
IT Assistant supports virtualization environments including the following:
• VMware ESX Server 3.5 and later
• VMware ESX Server 4.0 Update 1 and Update 2
• VMware ESX Server 4.1
• VMware ESXi 3.5 Update 4 and later
• VMware ESXi 4.0 Update 1 and Update 2 - Flash and HDD
• VMware ESXi 4.1 Flash