Users Guide

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Server Administrator Services
Overview
The Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Instrumentation Service
monitors the health of a system and provides rapid access to detailed fault and
performance information gathered by industry-standard systems management
agents. The reporting and viewing features allow retrieval of overall health
status for each chassis that comprises your system. At the subsystem level,
you can view information about the voltages, temperatures, fan rpm, and
memory function at key points in the system. A detailed account of every
relevant cost of ownership (COO) detail about your system can be seen in the
summary view. Version information for BIOS, firmware, operating system,
and all installed systems management software is easy to retrieve.
Additionally, system administrators can use the Instrumentation Service to
perform the following essential tasks:
• Specify minimum and maximum values for certain critical components.
The values, called thresholds, determine the range in which a warning
event for that component occurs (minimum and maximum failure values
are specified by the system manufacturer).
• Specify how the system responds when a warning or failure event occurs.
Users can configure the actions that a system takes in response to
notifications of warning and failure events. Alternatively, users who have
around-the-clock monitoring can specify that no action is to be taken and
rely on human judgment to select the best action in response to an event.
• Populate all of the user-specifiable values for the system, such as the name
of the system, the phone number of the system's primary user, the
depreciation method, whether the system is leased or owned, and so on.
NOTE: You must configure the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
service to accept SNMP packets for both managed systems and network
management stations running Microsoft Windows Server 2003. See
Configuring the
SNMP Agent for Systems Running Supported Windows Operating Systems
for details.
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