Yes, that's the agent. The naming is quite confusing. Managed Node is also known as OMSA in most circles.

Thanks for your reply. I have a followup question. Just to give you some background info. We have a large number of Dell's running ESX in farm.

I'm currently testing rolling out the agent to the ESX servers. So far I've managed to install OpenManage on one of our test servers in the lab. I now need to setup an OpenManage
management server.

Can I use the same software I downloaded for the agent? Can I set up the management server on a VM?

Thanks.

"Can I use the same software I downloaded for the agent? Can I set up the management server on a VM?

Thanks. "

There are 2 options for the management server: IT Assistant (aka ITA, aka OpenManage Management Station) and Dell Management Console (DMC). Both are available as downloads from support.dell.com and both will run on a VM, I'm doing that today. Not sure if either is officially supported on a VM, but it works for me (less than 50 managed servers reporting to ITA in my environment, 1 reporting to DMC.)

I'll be honest, I'm hanging with ITA because we had it before DMC existed and it works for us. DMC is probably a better bet these days, but I'll defer to Scott to answer that.

Also, for installing the OpenManage Managed Node agent on ESX, Scott has some script resources at: http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/Install+and+Configure+OMSA+on+ESX.
You can learn more about OpenManage at: http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/OpenManage+Systems+Management

There are major differences between the IT Assistant and Dell Management Console, too numerous to list, but ITA is much easier to use and more lightweight, DMC runs on the Symantec Management Platform (AKA Altiris) and requires a beefier server and SQL backend.

One rub about ITA, it won;t run on ANY 64-bit OS, as I found out when I tried to migrate it to Windows Server 2008 R2 a while back.