Owner's Manual

What’s New for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Version 8.9 45
New Search Criterion for Dynamic Groups Created Using IT Assistant
You can now use the System Revision Number criterion for searching devices
in a new group. Also, you can combine this criteria with ‘System Model’ for
retrieving information on devices that are part of new groups. For example,
search for devices that have System Model 1900 and System Revision
Number II for retrieving a list of all Dell PowerEdge 1900 II servers.
IT Assistant 8.2
Online Synchronization Enhancement
IT Assistant inventories the systems on the network and stores the
information in the database. Based on this information, IT Assistant
intelligently decides on the packages to be downloaded. In other words,
IT Assistant downloads only those packages and bundles that correspond
to at least one managed system in your network.
Simplified Repository View
The Software Update view in IT Assistant displays a simplified view of the
repositories by default. In this view you will only see the update
packages/bundles that correspond to at least one device on your network.
To view all update packages/bundles available in the repositories (as seen in
earlier IT Assistant versions), select the Classic View.
Compliance Tool
IT Assistant provides an easy launch point on the user interface (UI) to
generate a comprehensive compliance report for the systems being managed.
It evaluates each system for current status of BIOS, firmware, and drivers
against the update packages/bundles imported into the IT Assistant repository.
The output is available in easy-to-use Microsoft Excel format.
Dynamic VMware Host Group
IT Assistant discovers VMware ESX Server systems. Each host is discovered
under the Device Group VMware ESX Servers Hosts. For each host,
IT Assistant creates a new group Host_<
hostname >. The ESX Server host
and virtual machines (on discovery) are added as child nodes in this group.