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 Supported Dell OpenManage Systems Management Consoles

Dell™SystemsSoftwareSupportMatrix5.4

Supported Systems for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant

Supported Systems for RACADM

Supported Systems for BMU and IPMItool Out-of- Band

Supported Systems for IPMItool In-Band

Dell™OpenManage™systemsmanagementconsolesprovidethenecessarytoolsforremoteorone-to-many group system management. These tools also

consolidate the management applications used on management workstations.

Dell OpenManage systems management consoles tools and applications include:

l Dell OpenManage IT Assistant

l DRAC tools that include remote RACADM

l BMC Management Utility and IPMItool out-of-band

l IPMItool in-band

Supported Systems for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant

Dell OpenManage IT Assistant provides a central point of access to monitor and manage systems on a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN).

By allowing an administrator a comprehensive view across the enterprise, IT Assistant can increase system uptime, automate repetitive tasks, and prevent

interruption to critical business operations.

For more information on IT Assistant, see the Dell OpenManage IT Assistant User's Guide available on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com or on the

DellSystemsManagementToolsandDocumentation DVD.

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Supported Microsoft Windows Operating Systems for IT Assistant

Table4-1 shows supported Microsoft Windows® operating systems for IT Assistant. An X in the operating system column indicates IT Assistant support.

Table 4-1.SupportedMicrosoftWindowsOperatingSystemsforITAssistant

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Supported Linux Operating Systems for IT Assistant

IT Assistant cannot be installed on Dell systems running Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®or SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server operating systems. These systems

can, however, launch IT Assistant through supported browsers (Firefox® version 1.5). For more information on supported browsers, see the Supported

Browsers section.

NOTE: Microsoft Windows Server®2008 is scheduled to be available in the first half of 2008. For latest information, see

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/default.mspx.

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Windows

2000

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Windows Server

2003 x86

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Windows Server

2003 x64

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Windows Storage Server

2003 R2 x64

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Windows Server

2008 x86

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Windows

Server

2008 x64

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Windows XP

Professional

x86

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Windows

Vista

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SP4

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SP4

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R2-

SP2

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R2-

SP2

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R2-

SP2

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R2-

SP2

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R2-

SP2

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R2-

SP2

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R2-

SP2

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R2-

SP2

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R2-

SP2

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R2-

SP2

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Gold



Gold

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Gold

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Gold

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Gold

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Gold

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SP2



Gold

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Assistant

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