Dell OptiPlex GX1 Installation Manual page 20

Your Dell OptiPlex GX1 or GX1p Managed PC system incorporates many hardware and software features to improve the manageability of the
system. Installed features include:
Dell OpenManage program
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Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
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Wakeup On LAN
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Auto Power On
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Temperature monitoring
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Security features
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Dell OpenManage Program
The Dell OpenManage program is the Dell software-management application interface for DMI. It allows you to manage system-level information,
such as system configuration information and management information format (MIF) database values (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. Dell OpenManage Program
On systems running Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0, the Dell OpenManage program is available in client and administrator
versions. The Dell OpenManage administrator version enables system administrators to view, manage, and inventory remote systems in a Dell
DMI client network and incorporates the following manageability features, which are based on the DMI 2.0 specification.
Fault Management
Fault management features of Dell OpenManage include the following:
Alerts to warn you about events generated by SMART drives on a local or remote system and about thermal errors
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An event log that stores events in a text file and reports information about the event under the following options: System Name, Component
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Name, Date and Time, Event Type, Event Severity, Event Class, Event System
Configuration Management
Configuration management features of Dell OpenManage include the following:
Wakeup On LAN support, which allows network administrators to remotely turn on Managed PC systems with Wakeup On LAN capability in
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a Dell DMI network.
A System Properties window that enables network administrators to view, set, or disable certain hardware configuration settings for the local
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and remote systems in a Dell DMI network.
Support for the Microsoft System Management Server (SMS), which allows the exporting of one or more groups to an SMS directory that the
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SMS administrator can access.
A Monitor component for systems running Windows 95 and having a display data channel (DDC)-compliant video subsystem and monitor.
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Automated inventory control of one or more groups for the remote systems in a Dell DMI network. Network administrators can automate
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inventory to occur every day, week, or month at a certain hour, on the hour; or they can enable inventory as needed. Dell OpenManage
creates a text file for the group(s) and saves it to a user-defined directory.
Support for the application program used to create user-definable attributes (UDAs).
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Asset Management
Asset management features of Dell OpenManage include the following:
Support that enables network administrators to remotely view, enter, and modify an asset tag for a remote system in a Dell DMI network
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Automated and manual mapping of one or more groups to a user-defined directory
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Security Management