Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- SupportAssist Enterprise Version 1.1 User's Guide
- Overview
- Getting started with SupportAssist Enterprise
- Setting up SupportAssist Enterprise for the local system
- Setting up SupportAssist Enterprise for remote devices
- Evaluating SupportAssist Enterprise
- Downloading the SupportAssist Enterprise installation package
- Installing, Upgrading, or Migrating to SupportAssist Enterprise
- Minimum requirements for installing and using SupportAssist Enterprise
- Installing SupportAssist Enterprise
- Operating system considerations for installing SupportAssist Enterprise
- Installing SupportAssist Enterprise by using the SupportAssist Enterprise installer package (Windows)
- Installing SupportAssist Enterprise by using the SupportAssist Enterprise installer package (Linux)
- Installing SupportAssist Enterprise in silent mode (Linux)
- Installing SupportAssist Enterprise by using the OpenManage Essentials installation package
- Upgrading SupportAssist Enterprise
- Migrating to SupportAssist Enterprise
- Using SupportAssist Enterprise without registration
- Registering SupportAssist Enterprise
- Setting up an SELinux enabled system to receive alerts
- Opening the SupportAssist Enterprise user interface
- Logging in to SupportAssist Enterprise
- Logging out of SupportAssist Enterprise
- Adding devices
- Device types and applicable devices
- Adding a single device
- Adding a server or hypervisor
- Adding an iDRAC
- Adding a chassis
- Adding a Networking device
- Adding a PowerVault MD Series storage array
- Adding an EqualLogic PS Series storage solution
- Adding a Compellent SC Series storage solution
- Adding a Fluid File System (FluidFS) NAS device
- Adding a software
- Adding a solution
- Adding a device by duplication
- Importing multiple devices
- Exporting details of devices that were not imported
- Revalidating a device
- Viewing cases and devices
- Device grouping
- Using Extensions
- Types of extensions
- Support for setting up adapter or Remote Collector
- Getting started with inventorying devices managed by OpenManage Essentials or Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
- Adapters
- Remote Collectors
- Managing device credentials
- Maintaining SupportAssist Enterprise capability
- Enabling or disabling monitoring of a device
- Installing or upgrading OMSA by using SupportAssist Enterprise
- Configuring SNMP settings by using SupportAssist Enterprise
- Viewing and updating the contact information
- Configuring proxy server settings
- Connectivity test
- Testing the case creation capability
- Clearing the System Event Log (SEL)
- Automatic update
- Deleting a device
- Opting in or opting out from ProSupport Plus recommendation report emails
- Configuring email notifications
- Configuring collection settings
- Prerequisites for collecting system information
- Enabling or disabling the automatic collection of system information on case creation
- Enabling or disabling the periodic collection of system information from all devices
- Enabling or disabling the collection of identity information
- Enabling or disabling the collection of software information and the system log
- Enabling or disabling the automatic upload of collections
- Viewing collections
- Using SupportAssist Enterprise to collect and send system information
- Understanding maintenance mode
- SupportAssist Enterprise user groups
- Manually configuring SNMP settings
- Manually configuring the alert destination of a server
- Manually configuring the alert destination of a server by using the script file (Windows)
- Manually configuring the alert destination of a server (Windows)
- Manually configuring the alert destination of a server by using the script file (Linux)
- Manually configuring the alert destination of a server (Linux)
- Manually configuring the alert destination of iDRAC by using the web interface
- Manually configuring the alert destination of a chassis by using the web interface
- Manually configuring the alert destination of a networking device
- Manually configuring the alert destination of a server
- Other useful information
- Monitoring servers for hardware issues
- Support for automatically installing or upgrading OMSA
- Support for automatically configuring SNMP settings
- Device correlation
- Detection of hardware issues in attached storage devices
- Support for Dell OEM servers
- Installing Net-SNMP (Linux only)
- Configuring sudo access for SupportAssist Enterprise (Linux)
- Ensuring successful communication between the SupportAssist Enterprise application and the SupportAssist server
- Accessing the SupportAssist Enterprise application logs
- Event storm handling
- Accessing the context-sensitive help
- Viewing SupportAssist Enterprise product information
- Uninstalling SupportAssist Enterprise
- Identifying the generation of a Dell PowerEdge server
- Troubleshooting
- Installing SupportAssist Enterprise
- SupportAssist Enterprise registration
- Opening the SupportAssist Enterprise user interface
- Logging in to SupportAssist Enterprise
- Unable to add device
- Unable to add adapter
- Unable to add Remote Collector
- Disconnected
- Importing multiple devices
- OMSA not installed
- SNMP not configured
- New version of OMSA available
- Unable to configure SNMP
- Unable to verify SNMP configuration
- Unable to install OMSA
- Unable to verify OMSA version
- OMSA not supported
- Unable to reach device
- Unable to gather system information
- Insufficient storage space to gather system information
- Unable to export collection
- Unable to send system information
- Authentication failed
- Clearing System Event Log failed
- Maintenance mode
- Auto update
- Unable to edit device credentials
- Automatic case creation
- Scheduled tasks
- SupportAssist Enterprise services
- Other services
- Security
- SupportAssist Enterprise user interface
- Error code appendix
- Related documents and resources
SupportAssist Enterprise user groups
SupportAssist Enterprise maintains security and privileges through the following user groups that are created during the
installation of SupportAssist Enterprise:
● SupportAssistAdmins — Users who are members of this group have elevated or administrative privileges required for
performing both basic and advanced functions in SupportAssist Enterprise.
● SupportAssistUsers — Users who are members of this group have normal privileges required for performing only basic
functions in SupportAssist Enterprise.
After the installation of SupportAssist Enterprise, by default, the operating system user groups specified in the following table
are automatically added to the SupportAssist Enterprise user groups.
Table 19. Operating system user groups that are added to the SupportAssist Enterprise user groups
Operating system where
SupportAssist Enterprise is installed
SupportAssistAdmins SupportAssistUsers
Microsoft Windows Local Administrators Users
Windows domain controller Domain Admins Domain Users
Linux root user —
If you have Administrator privileges (Windows) or root privileges (Linux) on the system, you can add user accounts to the
appropriate SupportAssist Enterprise user groups based on your requirement. Users who are members of the operating system
user groups on the system where SupportAssist Enterprise is installed have the following privileges in SupportAssist Enterprise:
● If SupportAssist Enterprise is installed on Windows:
○ Users who are members of the Administrators user group have elevated or administrative privileges in SupportAssist
Enterprise.
○ Users who are members of the Users user group have normal privileges in SupportAssist Enterprise.
● If SupportAssist Enterprise is installed on Linux:
○ Users who are members of the root group have elevated or administrative privileges in SupportAssist Enterprise.
○ Users who are members of the users group have normal privileges in SupportAssist Enterprise.
Topics:
• SupportAssist Enterprise functions and user privileges
• Granting elevated or administrative privileges to users
• Adding users to the SupportAssist Enterprise user groups (Windows)
• Adding users to the SupportAssist Enterprise user groups (Linux)
SupportAssist Enterprise functions and user
privileges
The following table provides a list of functions that can be performed by the SupportAssist Enterprise users depending on their
privileges.
Table 20. SupportAssist Enterprise functions and user privileges
SupportAssist Enterprise functions SupportAssistAdmins and users
with elevated or administrative
privileges
SupportAssistUsers and users with
normal privileges
View cases and check for cases
View the device inventory and device
groups
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