User guide

Common Setup Tasks

If this portlet does not appear on the

first page after you sign in, you can add

it. It offers you a convenient wayt to do

the following setup tasks:

• SMTP Configuration—This

configures how Dell OpenManage

Network Manager sends

notification e-mails.

Netrestore File Servers—See Configure an FTP/TFTP Server on page 11 below..

A red flag appears with the “Setup required” message in the

Status

column when these are not

configured. Configuring them displays a green flag with the “Setup complete” message. Click the

edit

link in the

Action

column to open editors for each of these.

Quick Navigation

The Quick Navigation portlet lets you quickly click some links to basic tasks:

Resource Discovery

—Discover devices in your network with the Quick Discovery defaults, or lets

you construct a Quick Discovery profile if none exists. See the

User Guide

for details.

Link Discovery

—After you have discovered resources, this discovers their connections.

Backup Config Files

—This lets you back up discovered devices’ configuration files. Before you

can use this feature, you must have FTP / TFTP servers configured.

OS Image Upload

—Upload firmware updates for devices.

Deploy OS Image

—This deploys firmware updates. To deploy images, you must have FTP /

TFTP Servers configured.

License Management

—This lets you see, update and manage the licensed capabilities of Dell

OpenManage Network Manager.

File Management

Dell OpenManage Network Manager lets you manage device configuration files. Before you begin

that management, you must first do the steps described in Configure an FTP/TFTP Server on page

11 to get or send such configurations from / to devices. After doing the steps described in that

section, you can do Do Configuration File Backup / Restore on page 11 below.