Dell OpenManage Network Manager Release Note page 2

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NOTE:
General
Report templates—In addition to pre-configured reports, you can customize
your own.
Performance Monitoring—Monitor a variety of customize-able metrics.
W-Series devices—Now supported. For issues with these, see
Consult the OMNM User Guide for more details about these.
Although JUNOS can be selected from the OpenManage Network Manager firmware download
page, firmware download to JUNOS devices is not supported in this release. (18806)
• This release includes a driver enabling Windows Management Interface com-
munication with computers on the network (16082)
Highlights of the functionality in this release appear listed below. Consult the
OMNM User Guide for more information about these features:
• Renamed pre-processing rule selection menu items (from Frequency to Fre-
quency Throttle, for example), and updated editor screen labels (18605)
• Job screens that follow the execution of Actions like Show Adaptive CLIs now
contain a Results panel to display messages that result from the execution of
the Action. (17966)
• Selecting the type of device for filters now includes more user-friendly names
for types. (16984)
• Email Actions now include a checkbox option labeled Notify Associated Con-
tact. When enabled, notification emails go to the Contact associated with the
Managed Equipment for the notification event. For the contact's email
address, mail goes to the first specified address from either the Work Email,
Home Email or Other Email fields in the Contact editor. SMS messages go to
the Pager Email field for the contact. If a Contact was not found or the
required addresses are not specified for the Contact, then OpenManage Net-
work Manager uses the Recipient addresses configured in the Email Action.
(15639)
• Clicking Search now automatically puts the cursor in the search field. When
you click Search, the columns filtered in the database also appear indented.
For example, Name and Model appear indented in the Managed Resource por-
tal. (17982)
• Network views now appear with their (saved) name as a label in the title bar.
Labels appear when you re-load the saved view or load an existing one.
(17905)
• You can now Assign Labels context menu item for the Configuration Files
portlet. (17339)
• You can now mark a filter as Shared when creating a new filter from the Con-
tainer Membership panel. Shared Filters are available for selection by other
users along with System- and admin-created filters. (15302)
• Filter export and import is now supported. (17624)
• This version includes a dramatically re-designed web client. It includes move-
able portlets for OMNM functionality, texting and conferencing among users,
dramatically improved graphics, and many other features (11373).
W Series on page 9.