ITA: - Discovery - Inventory - Alert Management - Patch Management - Reports - easy to use if you start first time with SysMgmt Apps - completely free - requires Open Manage Server Administrator on each Server and Open Manage Client Instrumentations on each Client who is managed - SQL Express comes with the Installation File
DMC: - the same functionality + better user rights Management + different views for each user + individual web GUI + more supported protocols + more reports + based on Notification Server 7 + you can include add ons like backup exec, Deployment, Software Virtualization (you need to pay for) ... .. . Kace: - buy it and start - integrate it in your ESX Environment and buy the license only, or buy the appliance, put it in the Rack and push the button and start - case studies, customer expierience and me say.....buy Kace - check out to the test application on www.kace.com/sandbox -----Original Message----- From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of Brian Candler Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 17:22 To: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Overview of management components? Could someone point me to an overview of the different Dell management software components and their functions? I'm having a bit of trouble working out what we should be evaluating to deploy. The marketing blurb at http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/data-center-system-management.aspx?cs=555 is rather fluffy. What I'd really like is a roadmap to what we can actually do with each bit, how the bits fit together, and which ones need to be paid for. The nearest I have found so far is here: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/SOFTWARE/omswrels/om63/index.htm That has one sentence for each component. >From what I can tell, OpenManage Server Administrator is what you >install on each machine, allowing you to manage machines individually via SNMP and HTTPS (e.g. point your web browser directly at the machine) What's more difficult is working out what to use for central asset database and centralised monitoring. I can see there are at least Dell Management Console and Dell OpenManage IT Assistant. AFAICT, both will monitor performance across a collection of machines. However it looks like both require a Windows server with SQL Server. Are there any Linux-based solutions for managing a network of Dell machines? The manual for Management Console says that the licence is free: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdmc/11/en/ug/intro.htm#1180144 but then later on says that you have to pay for some functionality: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdmc/11/en/ug/monitor.htm#1184247 The manual for IT Assistant doesn't seem to say if it's free or not. There's more software listed at http://support.dell.com/manuals - but it doesn't include OpenManage Network Manager, which is referred to from the OpenManage Wikipedia page. Any clarity you can shed on what's available would be much appreciated :-) Many thanks, Brian. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
