Users Guide

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Active Directory Snap-in Utility
The Microsoft Active Directory Snap-in utility provides an extension snap-in to the Microsoft Active Directory, which allows you to manage Dell-specific Active
Directory objects.
You can use this option when the Dell-specificschemaclasseshavebeenaddedtotheActiveDirectoryschema.
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Managed System Software (Dell PowerEdge Installation and Server Management CD)
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Server Administrator
Server Administrator provides a comprehensive, one-to-one systems management solution using an integrated Web browser-based GUI (the Server
Administrator home page) or a command line interface (CLI) feature. Server Administrator includes the following integrated services and features:
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Instrumentation Service
The Instrumentation Service provides rapid access to detailed fault and performance information gathered by systems management agents and allows remote
administration of monitored systems, including shutdown, startup, and security.
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Remote Access Service
The Remote Access Service provides the following features:
l Remote access to an inoperable system, allowing you to shut down, restart, and get the system up and running as quickly as possible
l Alert notification when a system is down
l System crash logs that record the probable cause of system crashes and saves the most recent crash screen
You must have Server Administrator on your system to install the Remote Access Service.
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Storage Management Service
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:
l Enables you to view the status of local and remote storage attached to a monitored system
l Supports SAS, SCSI, SATA, and ATA, but does not support Fibre Channel
l 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
l Protectsyourdatabyconfiguringdataredundancy,assigninghotspares,orrebuildingfaileddrives
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Diagnostics (Dell PowerEdge Service and Diagnostic Utilities CD)
The Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics is a suite of diagnostic programs, or test modules, that run locally on your system. You can select the appropriate diagnostics
tests to run from the Diagnostic Selection tree containing the hardware that PowerEdge Diagnostics discovers on your system.
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Drivers (Dell PowerEdge Service and Diagnostic Utilities CD)
TheExtractionUtilityenablesyoutoviewandcreateDellsoftwaredriveranddiagnosticfloppydisks.
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Change Management (Dell PowerEdge Server Update Utility CD)
NOTE: The Remote Access Service is not available on modular systems. You must directly connect to the RAC on a modular system. See the Dell
Embedded Remote Access/MC User's Guide, the Dell Remote Access Controller 4 User's Guide, or the Dell Remote Access Controller 5 User's Guide for more
information.
NOTE: The Server Administrator Remote Access Service and Remote Access Controller Management Station cannot be installed on a system at the same
time. If both Server Administrator and Management Station are installed at the same time and RAC support is required, install Server Administrator
RemoteAccessService.ItprovidesallthefunctionalityoftheRemoteAccessControllerManagementStation.