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OpenManage Essentials (OME) is a systems management console that provides simple, basic Dell hardware management and is available as a free download.
The latest release is OME 1.1 and it launched on October 30th 2012. It brings a lot of great new features to the product:
- Agent-free hardware inventory for Dell 11G and 12G servers
- Agent-free system updates (e.g., BIOS, firmware) for Dell 11G and 12G servers
- Dell SupportAssist extension for proactive “phone home” hardware issue resolution
- Discover, Inventory, monitor health, and view logs of Dell clients (i.e., desktops, portables)
- Discover, Inventory, and monitor health of Dell Force 10 Switches, Dell PDU and UPS devices
- Discover and collect limited inventory Linux servers via SSH
- Enhanced hardware inventory for ESXi servers with Server Administrator (OMSA)
- Alerts for hardware health status changes (not just when a hardware trap is sent)
- Ability to forward alerts in original format to support tiered
event management - A new command line interface (CLI) for automation of server discovery and grouping
- Calendar style task schedule view
- Group filtering on portal pages
- More configurable portal pages
- Grouped discovery ranges for common protocol settings
- Custom URL launch points to allow user-defined right-click actions on devices
How do you like OpenManage Essentials so far? If you have feedback good or bad, head over to www.delltechcenter.com/OME and click on the forum to talk directly to some folks who design the software. We'd love to hear from you.
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