11 Dell Openmanage Systems Management; Openmanage Systems Management Portfolio; Figure 17. Server Lifecycle Management Operations - Dell PowerEdge R730 Technical Manual

11 Dell OpenManage systems management

Whether your IT environment consists of a few servers or a few thousand servers,
Dell OpenManage systems management solutions provide comprehensive management for
evolving IT environments. OpenManage is based on open standards and provides agent-based and
agent-free server lifecycle management functionality for Dell PowerEdge servers. OpenManage
solutions help you automate and streamline essential hardware management tasks.
Start with a firm foundation for efficient hardware management using OpenManage tools, utilities
and management consoles. OpenManage systems management solutions consist of a combination
of embedded management features and software products that help you automate and simplify the
entire server lifecycle: deploy, update, monitor and maintain as shown in Table 15. OpenManage
solutions are innovatively designed for simplicity and ease of use to help you reduce complexity,
save time, achieve efficiency, control costs and empower productivity. As shown in Figure 17,
OpenManage centers around efficient management of server lifecycle.

Figure 17. Server lifecycle management operations

OpenManage systems management portfolio

The Dell OpenManage systems management portfolio includes powerful hardware and software
management tools and consoles designed to simplify and automate the most frequently performed
server management tasks. The OpenManage portfolio includes the following items.
iDRAC8 with Lifecycle Controller
The Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 8 (iDRAC8) with Lifecycle Controller, the embedded
intelligence of every Dell PowerEdge 13th generation server, helps you manage Dell servers agent-
free or with a systems management agent, within physical, virtual, local and remote environments.
iDRAC8 alerts server issues, enables remote server management and reduces the need to physically
visit the server. iDRAC8 with Lifecycle Controller is part of Dell's comprehensive OpenManage
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