Users Guide

12 Introduction
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)
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.
For information on SNMP security concerns, see the Dell OpenManage
Server Administrator readme file (packaged with the Server Administrator
application) or on the Dell Support Website at support.dell.com/manuals.
You must apply updates from your operating system's master SNMP agents to
ensure that Dell's SNMP subagents are secure.
Availability on Supported Operating Systems
On supported Microsoft
®
Windows
®
operating systems,
Server Administrator supports two systems management standards:
CIM/WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) and SNMP, while on
supported Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux
®
and SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Server
operating systems, Server Administrator supports the SNMP systems
management standard.
Server Administrator adds considerable security to these systems management
standards. All attributes set operations (for example, changing the value of an
asset tag) must be performed with Dell OpenManage IT Assistant while logged
in with the required authority.
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