Concept Guide

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Dell Systems Management
Dell delivers management solutions that help IT Administrators effectively deploy, update, monitor, and
manage IT assets. Dell OpenManage solutions and tools allow customers to quickly respond to problems
by helping them to manage Dell servers effectively and efficiently; in physical, virtual, local, and remote
environments, operating in-band and out-of-band (agent-free). The OpenManage portfolio includes
innovative embedded management tools such as the integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)
with Lifecycle Controller.
Dell has developed comprehensive systems management solutions based on open standards and has
integrated with management consoles that can perform advanced management of Dell hardware. Dell
has connected or integrated the advanced management capabilities of Dell hardware into offerings from
the industry’s top systems management vendors, thus making Dell platforms easy to deploy, update,
monitor, and manage IT environments.
If you have standardized on offerings from industry leaders such as BMC Software, Microsoft, VMware, or
other vendors, you can extend the existing systems management framework and the skills of the IT staff
to efficiently manage Dell servers, storage, business-client PCs, and networking equipments using Dell's
Systems Management tools, utilities, and consoles.
Dell's systems management solution consists of a set of software products that help you to discover,
monitor, manage, update, and deploy software or firmware on Dell servers. The products focus on:
• Reducing complexity and saving time
– Eliminating need for additional utilities
– Eliminating tasks that increase time
• Achieving efficiency and controlling costs
– Improving asset management
– Optimizing resource utilization
• Empowering productivity by connecting to major systems management consoles and protecting
investments
– Providing features in tools that customers choose, thus adapting to customers' mode of operation
– Automating to reduce downtime and human error
These software products are useful for administrators to control and manage Dell servers, storage,
network, and client devices from a single workstation.
This document provides a list of Dell Systems Management offerings using the Dell OpenManage Suite of
products and the Dell OpenManage Connections. The document provides overviews for different
products and a feature matrix that helps you choose the appropriate set of integrations and connections
to manage your Dell systems.
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