Users Guide

14 Introduction
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator
Functionality
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator provides a comprehensive set of
integrated management services designed for system administrators to
manage systems locally and remotely on a network. Server Administrator is
the sole installation on the managed system and is accessible both locally and
remotely from the Server Administrator Home page. Remotely monitored
systems may be accessed by dial-in, LAN, or wireless connections. Server
Administrator ensures the security of its management connections through
role-based access control (RBAC), authentication, and industry-standard
secure socket layer (SSL) encryption.
For information on installing Server Administrator, see "Installing Managed
System Software on Microsoft Windows Operating Systems" or "Installing
Managed System Software on Supported Linux Operating Systems".
For details on using Server Administrator, see the Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator User's Guide at
support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/omswrels/index.htm .
The Storage Management Service provides enhanced features for managing
a system's locally-attached RAID and non-RAID disk storage.
The Storage Management Service provides the following features:
• Enables you to view the status of the local and remote storage attached to
a monitored system.
• Supports SAS, SCSI, SATA, and ATA, but does not support Fibre Channel.
• Allows you to perform controller and enclosure functions for all supported
RAID and non-RAID controllers and enclosures from a single graphical
interface or a CLI, without the use of the controller BIOS utilities.
• Protects your data by configuring data redundancy, assigning hot spares,
or rebuilding failed drives.
Location on the DVD
<DVD_drive>\SYSMGMT\srvadmin