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Table Of Contents

SupportAssist Enterprise Version 2.0.50 User's Guide
Overview
- New features in this release
- Overview of supported device types
- How SupportAssist Enterprise works
- SupportAssist Enterprise capabilities available with Dell EMC 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
- Download the SupportAssist Enterprise installation package
- Installing or upgrading SupportAssist Enterprise
- Minimum requirements for installing and using SupportAssist Enterprise
- Installing SupportAssist Enterprise
- Upgrading SupportAssist Enterprise
  - Upgrade SupportAssist Enterprise by using the SupportAssist Enterprise installation package
- Migrating to SupportAssist Enterprise
- Using SupportAssist Enterprise without registration
- Register SupportAssist Enterprise
- Set up an SELinux enabled system to receive alerts
- Open the SupportAssist Enterprise user interface
- Log in to SupportAssist Enterprise
- Log out of SupportAssist Enterprise
Adding devices
- Methods of adding devices
- Device types and applicable devices
- Add a server or hypervisor
- Add an iDRAC
- Add a chassis
- Add a Networking device
- Add a PowerVault storage array
- Add an EqualLogic PS Series storage solution
- Add a Compellent SC Series storage solution
- Add a Fluid File System NAS device
- Add a software
- Add a solution
- Add a virtual machine
  - SupportAssist Enterprise features available for virtual machines
- Add a device by duplication
Managing device discovery rules
- Create device discovery rule
- View the device discovery rule overview pane
- Edit device discovery rule
- Delete device discovery rule
- Run the discovery rule
Viewing cases and devices
- Viewing all support cases
- View support cases for a specific device
- Case management options
- View the device inventory
- View the device overview pane
- Sorting the displayed data
Monitoring site health
- View site health
- Current SupportAssist Enterprise Hostname Details
- Current SupportAssist Overview
- Sitewide Inventory Validation
- Network Connectivity
- Extensions Tree View
Using Extensions
- Types of extensions
- Support for setting up adapter or Remote Collector
- Getting started with adding devices managed by systems management consoles
- Adapters overview
- Remote Collectors overview
Device grouping
- Predefined device groups
- View device groups
- Creating a device group
- Manage devices in a device group
- Manage the credentials of a device group
- View and update device group information
- Delete a device group
Managing device credentials
- Account credentials
- Credential profiles
Validating device inventory
- View the Site Inventory Validation page
- Start inventory validation manually
- Schedule automatic inventory validation
Maintaining SupportAssist Enterprise capability
- Enable or disable monitoring of a device
- Perform deep discovery
- Install or upgrade OMSA by using SupportAssist Enterprise
- Configure SNMP settings by using SupportAssist Enterprise
- View and update the contact information
- View and update parts dispatch information
- Integrate SupportAssist Enterprise with your TechDirect account
- Configure proxy server settings
- Connectivity test
  - View the connectivity status
  - Perform the connectivity test
- Test the case creation capability
- Clear the System Event Log
- Automatic update
  - Enable or disable automatic updates
- Delete a device
Configuring email notifications
- Configure email notification settings
- Configure SMTP server settings
- Types of email notifications
Configuring collection settings
- Prerequisites for collecting system information
- Enable or disable the automatic collection of system information on case creation
- Enable or disable analytics collections
- Enable or disable the periodic collection of system information from all devices
- Enable or disable the collection of identity information
- Enable or disable the collection of system information
- Enable or disable the automatic upload of collections
- Enable or disable analytics collections
Viewing collections
- View a collection from the Devices page
- View a collection from the Collections page
- Refine collections based on a date range
- Configuration Viewer
  - Log types
- Items reported in periodic collections from servers
- Download and view a multiple device collection
- Analytics collections overview
  - Download analytics collection
Using SupportAssist Enterprise to collect and send system information
- Set up SupportAssist Enterprise for collecting and sending system information
- Start the collection of system information from a single device
- Start the collection of system information from multiple devices
- Upload a collection
- Upload a collection from a disconnected site
Understanding maintenance mode
- Enable or disable global-level maintenance mode
- Enable or disable device-level maintenance mode
SupportAssist Enterprise user groups
- SupportAssist Enterprise functions and user privileges
- Granting elevated or administrative privileges to users
- Add users to the SupportAssist Enterprise user groups – Windows
- Add users to the SupportAssist Enterprise user groups – Linux
Manually configuring SNMP settings
- Manually configuring the alert destination of a server
- Manually configure alert destination of iDRAC using the web interface
- Manually configure alert destination of networking device
Managing SupportAssist Enterprise alerts in TechDirect
- Set up TechDirect to receive SupportAssist Enterprise alerts
- Configure alert rules in TechDirect
- View SupportAssist Enterprise alerts in TechDirect
- SupportAssist alerts
- SupportAssist alert actions
Other useful information
- Monitoring servers for hardware issues
- Support for automatically installing or upgrading OMSA
- Support for automatically configuring SNMP settings
- Installing patch for SupportAssist Enterprise
- Enable or disable API interface settings
- Signing in to TechDirect
- Deep discovery
- Device correlation
- Association view
- Detection of hardware issues in attached storage devices
- Support for OEM devices
- Install Net-SNMP on a server running Linux
- Configure sudo access for SupportAssist Enterprise on server running 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
- View SupportAssist Enterprise product information
- Uninstalling SupportAssist Enterprise
  - Uninstall SupportAssist Enterprise - Windows
  - Uninstall SupportAssist Enterprise - Linux
  - Uninstall SupportAssist Enterprise in silent mode - Linux
- Identify series of 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
- 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
  - Clear the system event log using iDRAC
  - Clear the System Event Log by using OMSA
- Maintenance mode
- Auto update
- Unable to edit device credentials
- Automatic case creation
- Scheduled tasks
- SupportAssist Enterprise services
  - Verify the status of SupportAssist Enterprise services on Windows
  - Verify the status of SupportAssist Enterprise services on Linux
  - Verify the status of SupportAssist Enterprise services on Ubuntu and Debian
- Unable to view tool tips in Mozilla Firefox
- Other services
- Security
- Logs
SupportAssist Enterprise user interface
- SupportAssist Enterprise Registration Wizard
- Login page
- Site Health
- Cases page
- Devices page
- Site Inventory Validation
  - Validation test status
  - History of inventory validation
- Device Groups page
  - Manage Devices
  - Create or Edit Device Group
- Manage Device Discovery Rule
- Manage Account Credentials
  - Add Account Credentials
  - Edit Account Credentials
- Manage Credential Profiles
  - Add Credential Profile
  - Edit Credential Profile
- Collections page
  - Collection overview pane
- Analytics Collections
- Extensions
  - Adapters
  - Remote Collectors
    - Set Up Remote Collector
    - Remote Collector overview pane
- Settings
- Network Connectivity Test
- SupportAssist Enterprise test
Error code appendix
Other resources

Table 68. Set Up Adapter (OpenManage Enterprise) (continued)

Field Description

Name (Optional) An optional name that you want to use for identifying the adapter

in SupportAssist Enterprise.

User name The user name required to connect to the server where

OpenManage Enterprise is installed.

Password The password required to connect to the server where

OpenManage Enterprise is installed.

Credential Profile Use to select a Credential Profile that is required to add the

devices that are inventoried by the adapter.

Update device inventory Use to select the frequency at which the adapter must inventory

devices from the adapter. The available options are:

• Every 12 hours

• Daily

• Weekly

• Every two weeks

• Monthly

Adapter overview pane

The adapter overview pane displays the details of an adapter and allows you to perform certain operations on that adapter. This pane is

displayed when you select an adapter on the Adapters page.

Table 69. Adapter overview pane

Field Description

Name The name that you have provided for the adapter.

IP address The IP address or host name of the server where the adapter is set

up.

Status The status of the adapter.

Sync now Click to inventory devices from the systems management console.

Last sync The date and time when the devices were last inventoried.

Adapter type The type of adapter.

OS Type The operating system running on the server where the adapter is

set up.

Assigned devices The total number of devices that are added successfully through

the adapter.

Staging devices Displays the total number of inventoried devices that are added to

the staging group. Devices may be added to the staging group

because they did not meet certain prerequisites.

Version The version of the adapter application.

Remote Collectors

The Remote Collector is a remote instance of SupportAssist Enterprise that collects and uploads system information from devices within a

specific IP address range. The following table provides information about the options displayed on the Remote Collectors page.

Table 70. Remote Collectors

Field Description

Set Up Remote Collector Click to set up a Remote Collector.

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