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 Supported Dell OpenManage Systems Management Consoles
Dell™SystemsSoftwareSupportMatrix
Supported Systems for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant
Supported Systems for RACADM
Supported Systems for BMU and IPMItool Out-of- Band
Supported Systems for IPMItool In-Band
Dell™OpenManage™systemsmanagementconsolesprovidethenecessarytoolsforremoteorone-to-many group system management. These tools also
consolidate the management applications used on management workstations.
Dell OpenManage systems management consoles tools and applications include:
l Dell OpenManage IT Assistant
l DRAC tools that include remote RACADM and VMCLI
l BMC Management Utility and IPMItool out-of-band
l IPMItool in-band
Supported Systems for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant
Dell OpenManage IT Assistant provides a central point of access to monitor and manage systems on a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN).
By allowing an administrator a comprehensive view across the enterprise, IT Assistant can increase system uptime, automate repetitive tasks, and prevent
interruption to critical business operations.
For more information on IT Assistant, see the Dell OpenManage IT Assistant User's Guide available on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
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Supported Microsoft Windows Operating Systems for IT Assistant
Table4-1 shows supported Microsoft®Windows®operating systems for IT Assistant.
Table 4-1.SupportedMicrosoftWindowsOperatingSystemsforITAssistant
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Supported Linux Operating Systems for IT Assistant
IT Assistant cannot be installed on Dell systems running Red Hat®Enterprise Linux®or SUSE®Linux Enterprise Server operating systems. These systems
can, however, launch IT Assistant through supported browsers (Firefox®version 1.5). For more information on supported browsers, see the Supported
Browsers section.
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Supported Virtualization Operating Systems
ITA can be installed on virtual systems installed on the virtualization operating systems listed in Table4-2.
Table 4-2. Supported Virtualization Operating Systems on Physical System
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Windows Server® 2003 x86
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Windows Server 2008 x86
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Windows XP
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Windows Vista®
Edition
Web
Standard
Enterprise
Web
Standard
Enterprise
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Professionalx86
Business and
Enterprise
Service
Pack
R2-SP2
R2-SP2
R2-SP2
Gold
Gold
Gold
SP2
Gold
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IT
Assistant
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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VMware®
Citrix™
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Microsoft
Edition
ESX
XenServer™
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

3.5
5.0 Dell Edition Hot Fix 2
Hyper-V™
Hyper-V Server
Service Pack
U2
Flash
HDD
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Physical System
X
X
X
X
X