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Systems Management Standards Availability

Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator Version 2.2 Compatibility Guide

  Overview

  Availability on Supported Systems

  Availability on Supported Operating Systems

Overview

Dell OpenManage™ Server Administrator supports the following major systems management protocols:

• HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
  
  
• Common Information Model (CIM)
  
  
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
  
  

NOTE: See the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator readme file on the Systems Management CD for information on SNMP security concerns, as well as the Dell Support website at support.dell.com. You must apply updates from your operating system's master SNMP agents to ensure that Dell's SNMP subagents are secure.

NOTE: After you install SNMP, it must be enabled. For more information on enabling SNMP supporting agents, see the Server Administrator User's Guide.

NOTE: Starting with Dell OpenManage version 4.3, the Systems Management CD has been replaced by the Dell™ PowerEdge™ Installation and Server Management CD. References in this guide to the Systems Management CD are for Dell OpenManage versions 3.0 through 4.2.

If your system supports SNMP, you must install and enable the service on your operating system. If SNMP services are available on your operating system, the Server Administrator installation program installs the supporting agents for SNMP.

HTTPS is supported on all operating systems. Support for CIM and SNMP is operating
system-dependent and, in some cases, operating system-version dependent.

Availability on Supported Systems

On supported Microsoft® Windows® operating systems, Server Administrator supports these two systems management standards: CIM/WMI and SNMP.

On supported Red Hat® Linux and Novell® NetWare® operating systems, Server Administrator supports the SNMP systems management standard.

Server Administrator adds considerable security to those systems management standards. All set operations for attributes (for example, changing the value of an asset tag) must be performed with Dell OpenManage IT Assistant while logged in with the required authority. As a result of the added security that IT Assistant offers for systems management, IT Assistant is the only management console that you can use to change attributes.

Availability on Supported Operating Systems

Table 3-1 shows the availability of the systems management standards for each supported operating system.

Table 3-1. Availability of Systems Management Standard by Operating System

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