Agent-Based Systems Management - Dell PowerEdge M620 Technical Manual

Feature (function)
Email alerts
SNMP alerts
Comprehensive monitoring
Virtual Console
Virtual Media
Crash screen capture
Power control
Power monitoring
Virtual console chat
Support for customer-supplied SD cards for vFlash
media
Virtual flash partitions
Virtual folders
Remote file share
Crash video playback
Boot record/playback
Part replacement
Backup and restore configurations
Power capping
Enterprise group power management
Directory services (AD, LDAP)
PK authentication
Two-factor authentication
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Agent-based systems management

Most systems management solutions require pieces of software, called agents, to be installed on
each node in order to be managed within the IT environment. Additionally, the same agent is often
used as a local interface into the hardware health and may be accessed remotely as a management
interface, typically referred to as a one-to-one interface. For customers that continue to use agent-
based solutions, Dell provides OpenManage Server Administrator.
OpenManage Server Administrator
The Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) agent gives you a comprehensive, one-to-one
systems management solution for both local and remote servers and their storage. OMSA can help
simplify single-server monitoring with a secure command-line interface (CLI) or web-based
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