Compatibility Guide

Systems Management Standards Availability 17
Systems Management Standards Availability
Overview
Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator supports the following major systems
management protocols:
• HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
• Common Information Model (CIM)
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
NOTE: See the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator readme file on the Systems Management CD for
information on SNMP security concerns, as well as the Dell Support website at support.dell.com. You must
apply updates from your operating system's master SNMP agents to ensure that Dell's SNMP subagents
are secure.
NOTE: After you install SNMP, it must be enabled. For more information on enabling SNMP supporting agents,
see the Server Administrator User's Guide.
NOTE: Starting with Dell OpenManage version 4.3, the Systems Management CD has been replaced by the
Dell™ PowerEdge™ Installation and Server Management CD. References in this guide to the Systems
Management CD are for Dell OpenManage versions 3.0 through 4.2.
If your system supports SNMP, you must install and enable the service on your operating system.
If SNMP services are available on your operating system, the Server Administrator installation
program installs the supporting agents for SNMP.
HTTPS is supported on all operating systems. Support for CIM and SNMP is operating
system-dependent and, in some cases, operating system-version dependent.
Availability on Supported Systems
On supported Microsoft
®
Windows
®
operating systems, Server Administrator supports these two
systems management standards: CIM/WMI and SNMP.
On supported Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux operating systems, Server Administrator supports the
SNMP systems management standard.
Server Administrator adds considerable security to those systems management standards. All set
operations for attributes (for example, changing the value of an asset tag) must be performed with
Dell OpenManage IT Assistant while logged in with the required authority. As a result of the added
security that IT Assistant offers for systems management, IT Assistant is the only management
console that you can use to change attributes.