Concept Guide

Dell Systems Management
Dell delivers management solutions that help IT Administrators eectively deploy, update, monitor, and manage IT assets. Dell OpenManage
solutions and tools allow customers to quickly respond to problems by helping them to manage Dell servers eectively and eciently; in
physical, virtual, local, and remote environments, operating in-band and out-of-band (agent-free). The OpenManage portfolio includes
innovative embedded management tools such as the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller.
Dell has developed comprehensive systems management solutions based on open standards and has integrated with management consoles
that can perform advanced management of Dell hardware. Dell has connected or integrated the advanced management capabilities of Dell
hardware into oerings from the industry’s top systems management vendors, thus making Dell platforms easy to deploy, update, monitor,
and manage IT environments.
If you have standardized on oerings from industry leaders such as BMC Software, Microsoft, VMware, or other vendors, you can extend
the existing systems management framework and the skills of the IT sta to eciently manage Dell servers, storage, business-client PCs,
and networking equipments using Dell's Systems Management tools, utilities, and consoles.
Dell's systems management solution consists of a set of software products that help you to discover, monitor, manage, update, and deploy
software or rmware on Dell servers. The products focus on:
• Reducing complexity and saving time
• Eliminating need for additional utilities
• Eliminating tasks that increase time
• Achieving eciency and controlling costs
• Improving asset management
• Optimizing resource utilization
• Empowering productivity by connecting to major systems management consoles and protecting investments
• Providing features in tools that customers choose, thus adapting to customers' mode of operation
• Automating to reduce downtime and human error
These software products are useful for administrators to control and manage Dell servers, storage, network, and client devices from a
single workstation.
This document provides a list of Dell Systems Management oerings using the Dell OpenManage Suite of products and the Dell
OpenManage Connections. The document provides overviews for dierent products and a feature matrix that helps you choose the
appropriate set of integrations and connections to manage your Dell systems.
Dell Systems Management Oerings
Dell’s suite of Systems Management oerings extend a wide variety of tools, products, and services. Dell’s strategy is to use an existing
systems management framework that you may be currently using.
However, if you do not have a framework, Dell provides in-house tools or tools from our partners. Dell also oers professional services to
install or train on any of the Dell products and tools along with other services to manage your environment. All the solutions are centered on
Dell’s PowerEdge server hardware management featuring iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller. For an interactive tool to see the best Dell
OpenManage tools for your datacenter environment, see online Dell OpenManage Advisor Tool. This tool covers a wide range of topics
regarding your datacenter, and provides a detailed output based on your information. The following gure shows the Dell systems
management oerings that are used in the Advisor Tool.
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