Owner's Manual

56 Planning Your Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Installation
Selecting a Hardware Configuration
The hardware configuration you choose must meet or exceed the
recommended configuration for IT Assistant. Depending on your specific
IT Assistant deployment and your network environment, it may be advisable
to exceed the recommended configurations for processor speed, amount
of memory, and hard-drive space. For example, you may want to exceed or
choose the upper end of the recommended configuration if you:
• Anticipate heavy managed systems alert traffic
• Have complex alert filters with configured alert actions
• Are performing frequent discovery, inventory, status polls, or performance
monitoring
• Are running Microsoft SQL Server tuned to maximum performance
• Decide to check
support.dell.com frequently for updates and select a large
number of packages for auto-download
The recommended minimum hardware configuration for IT Assistant
is shown in Table 4-2.
NOTE: The amount of disk space needed may increase if you import numerous
Dell Update Packages (DUPs) and MSI files for software update and deployment.
NOTE: If you use the performance and power monitoring feature, see Table 7-3 for
hardware and operating system requirements.
Table 4-2. Recommended Minimum Hardware Configuration for IT Assistant
(by Enterprise Size)
Component Small (up to 50
Managed Systems)
Small (up to 500
Managed Systems)
Large (500+
Managed Systems)
Processor 1 processor
(1.8 GHz
minimum)
2-4 processors
(800 MHz
minimum)
4 or more processors
(1.2 GHz
minimum)
Memory 1 GB 2 GB 4 GB or more
Disk Space at least 1 GB 2 to 4 GB 4 to 8 GB