Owner's Manual

46 What’s New for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Version 8.9
IT Assistant automatically updates the host configuration if a virtual machine
moves from one host to another. You are not required to manually refresh the
inventory of the source or destination hosts to reflect the change in hosts.
NOTE: IT Assistant automatically displays the new status of the virtual machine
provided you set the trap destination correctly in the host system. For more
information, see the VMware Basic Administration Guide at
support.dell.com/manuals.
IT Assistant 8.1
Online Synchronization
You can now check the Dell FTP site at ftp.dell.com periodically for availability
of new updates. You can configure various options for online synchronization:
• Select the schedule to synchronize IT Assistant with the Dell Support website
• Configure connection settings
• Select the criteria to check for updates available at
support.dell.com
• Configure additional attributes, such as e-mail notification
• Configure automatic downloads and imports to the IT Assistant repository
NOTE: IT Assistant version 8.1 and later download only hardware packages
(BIOS, firmware, and drivers), and not software (OpenManage) packages.
Power Monitoring
You can use IT Assistant to set thresholds for power management using the
Server Administrator command line interface (CLI) as well as for power
consumption reporting. Power Monitoring is supported on Microsoft
Windows, Linux, and VMware ESX Server and Citrix Xenserver operating
systems.
NOTE: This feature is supported only on systems that have PMBus capability and
requires Server Administrator 5.3 or later to be installed on the system.