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Table Of Contents

SupportAssist Enterprise Version 1.1 User's Guide
Overview
- What is new in this release
- Overview of supported device types
- How SupportAssist Enterprise works
- SupportAssist Enterprise capabilities available with Dell service contracts
- System information collected by SupportAssist Enterprise
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
- Upgrading SupportAssist Enterprise
  - Upgrading SupportAssist Enterprise by using the SupportAssist Enterprise installation package
  - Upgrading SupportAssist Enterprise by using the OpenManage Essentials installer package
- 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
- Importing multiple devices
- Exporting details of devices that were not imported
- Revalidating a device
Viewing cases and devices
- Viewing all support cases
- Viewing support cases for a specific device
- Case management options
- Viewing the device inventory
- Viewing the device overview pane
- Refining the displayed data
- Filtering the displayed data
- Clearing the data filter
- Sorting the displayed data
Device grouping
- Predefined device groups
- Viewing device groups
- Creating a device group
- Managing devices in a device group
- Managing the credentials of a device group
- Viewing and updating the contact information of a device group
- Editing device group details
- Deleting a device group
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
- Editing device credentials
- Account Credentials
- Credential Profiles
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
  - Viewing the connectivity status
  - Performing the connectivity test
- Testing the case creation capability
- Clearing the System Event Log (SEL)
- Automatic update
  - Enabling or disabling automatic updates
- Deleting a device
- Opting in or opting out from ProSupport Plus recommendation report emails
Configuring email notifications
- Configuring email notification settings
- Configuring SMTP server settings
- Types of 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
- Viewing a collection from the Devices page
- Viewing a collection from the Collections page
- Refining collections based on a date range
- Configuration Viewer
  - Data views
  - Log types
- Items reported in periodic collections from servers
- Downloading and viewing a multiple device collection
- Multiple device configuration viewer
Using SupportAssist Enterprise to collect and send system information
- Setting up SupportAssist Enterprise for collecting and sending system information
- Starting the collection of system information from a single device
- Starting the collection of system information from multiple devices
- Uploading a collection
- Uploading a collection from a disconnected site
Understanding maintenance mode
- Enabling or disabling global-level maintenance mode
- Enabling or disabling device-level maintenance mode
SupportAssist Enterprise user groups
- 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)
Manually configuring SNMP settings
- Manually configuring the alert destination of a server
- 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
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
  - Clearing the System Event Log by using iDRAC
  - Clearing the System Event Log by using OMSA
- Maintenance mode
- Auto update
- Unable to edit device credentials
- Automatic case creation
- Scheduled tasks
- SupportAssist Enterprise services
  - Verifying the status of SupportAssist Enterprise services (Windows)
  - Verifying the status of SupportAssist Enterprise services (Linux)
- Other services
- Security
SupportAssist Enterprise user interface
- SupportAssist Enterprise Registration Wizard
- Login page
- Cases page
- Devices page
- Device Groups page
- Manage Account Credentials
  - Add Account Credentials
  - Edit Account Credentials
- Manage Credential Profiles
  - Add Credential Profile
  - Edit Credential Profile
- Collections page
  - Collection overview pane
- Extensions
  - Adapters
  - Remote Collectors
    - Set Up Remote Collector
    - Remote Collector overview pane
- Settings
- Network Connectivity Test
- SupportAssist Enterprise test
Error code appendix
Related documents and resources
- Accessing documents from the Dell EMC support site
- Contacting Dell

Software

● For troubleshooting HITKIT collection:

○ Ensure that Secure Shell (SSH) service is running on the system.

○ Ensure that you have root credentials for the SSH connection. SupportAssist Enterprise uses the SSH protocol to

connect to the system.

● For troubleshooting SAN HQ device:

○ Check the server installation details of Dell SAN Headquarters device from the registry entry: HKLM\SOFTWARES\

\PerformanceMonitor.

○ Ensure that the value of the install type attribute is "Full" and logdir attribute has a value.

○ Ensure that the WMI and EQLPerfX services are running on the device.

Automatic case creation

If an issue occurs on a device, but a support case is not created automatically:

NOTE: SupportAssist Enterprise does not create a support case for every alert received from a monitored device. A

support case is created only if the alert type and number of alerts received from a device match with the criteria defined by

Dell for support case creation.

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Ensure that the device is a server, storage, networking switch, or chassis.

● Ensure that monitoring is enabled for the device in SupportAssist Enterprise. See Enabling or disabling monitoring of a

device.

● Ensure that the device is configured to forward alerts to the server where SupportAssist Enterprise is installed.

● Perform the network connectivity test and ensure that the connectivity to the SupportAssist server is successful. See

Performing the connectivity test.

● Perform the case creation test and ensure that the Ready to Create Cases status is displayed. See Testing the case

creation capability.

● Check the application.log file available at C:\Program Files\Dell\SupportAssist\logs (on Windows)

or /opt/dell/supportassist/logs (on Linux) to identify if the alert was received successfully by SupportAssist

Enterprise.

● If the device was inventoried through an OpenManage Essentials adapter, ensure that the device is configured to forward

alerts to the server where OpenManage Essentials is installed.

Scheduled tasks

If the time or time zone of the system on which SupportAssist Enterprise is installed is changed, all built-in and user-defined

schedule tasks do not work as expected. Examples of scheduled tasks include the following:

● Periodic collection of system information from monitored devices

● Upload of device inventory information to Dell

● Connectivity test email notifications

To resolve this issue, restart the Dell SupportAssist Service.

SupportAssist Enterprise services

SupportAssist Enterprise has two services that run in the background: Dell EMC SupportAssist Enterprise and Dell

EMC SupportAssist Enterprise DB. If the SupportAssist Enterprise application does not respond appropriately, ensure the

following:

Steps

1. On the server where SupportAssist Enterprise is installed, verify if the SupportAssist Enterprise services are running. For

information on verifying the status of the SupportAssist Enterprise services, see Verifying the status of SupportAssist

Enterprise services (Windows) or Verifying the status of SupportAssist Enterprise services (Linux).

Troubleshooting

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