Concept Guide

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Dell Systems Management
Dell delivers management solutions that help IT Administrators effectively deploy, update, monitor, and manage IT
assets. Dell OpenManage solutions and tools allow customers to quick respond to problems by helping them to manage
Dell servers effectively and efficiently; 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 offerings 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 offerings from industry leaders such as BMC Software, Microsoft, Symantec, VMware, or
other vendors, you can extend the existing systems management framework and the skills of the IT staff to efficiently
manage Dell servers, storage, business-client PCs, and networking equipments using Dells'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 firmware on Dell servers. The products focus on:
• Reducing complexity and saving time
– Eliminating need for additional utilities
– Eliminating tasks that increase time
• Achieving efficiency 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 offerings using the Dell OpenManage Suite of products and
the Dell OpenManage Connections. The document provides product overviews and a feature matrix that helps you
choose the appropriate set of integrations and connections to manage your Dell systems.
Dell Systems Management Offerings
Dell’s suite of Systems Management offerings covers a wide variety of tools, products, and services. Dell’s strategy is to
leverage 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 offers 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 around Dell’s PowerEdge server hardware management featuring iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller. The
following figure shows the Dell systems management offerings.
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