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IT Assistant equivalent for SBS 2003
Hi,
I want to use a product such as IT Assitant to manage Dell clients (wake them up, get inventroy, and so) in an SBS 2003 environment. IT Assistant doesn't run on SBS 2003. What other Dell managment software can I use instead.
Thank you,
Bill Totten
I want to use a product such as IT Assitant to manage Dell clients (wake them up, get inventroy, and so) in an SBS 2003 environment. IT Assistant doesn't run on SBS 2003. What other Dell managment software can I use instead.
Thank you,
Bill Totten
- Thank you for the answer. Can you clarify what the acronyms stand for? I've got two of them figured out :)
As a follow-up, I did install it on a workstation including the installation of .NET Framework 2.0, SQL Server Express 2005 and SNMP. I don't see any menu item for IT Assistant. Does that mean the installation may have been bad or is there a different way to run IT Assistant (e.g., via a browser)?
A second follow-up; is there a logon script, already written, that you pass on so I can "push" the OMCI to the clients?
Thank you,
Bill
Message Edited by wtotten1 on 03-10-2008 07:28 PM OMNavigator
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Posted March 12th, 2008 04:00
Acronyms:
OMSA = OpenManage Server Administrator
OMCI = OpenManage Client Instrumentation
OMCC = OpenManage Client Connector
If the installation is successful, at the end you should see an icon created on the desktop to launch IT Assistant (ITA). The interface of ITA is web-based, so double-clicking the icon launches the browser.
Alternately, you could invoke ITA from IE or Firefox browser (from the same system or a different system if you want), with the address
https://hostname:2607 - where hostname is the host name or IP address of the system where you installed ITA and 2607 is the default port number for its web server (unless you chose to use a different number during install). In fact, you could also invoke the browser from a Linux system, if that is convenient for you.
You may also verify your installation by checking the services. Go to Windows Services (via control panel->Administrative tools), ITA installs the services "DSM IT Assistant Connection Service" and "DSM IT Assistant Network Monitor". Both should be "started". The first one includes the web server while the latter is the part of ITA that is responsible for Network Discovery, Inventory, etc.
For the follow-up question:
ITA doesn't have readymade capability to "push" OMCI to the clients. It can, however, push "OMSA" to the PowerEdge Servers (use ITA -> Manage->Tasks->Software Deploy task -> right-click and create New task).
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Posted March 10th, 2008 22:00
Thanks for posting! You can install ITA on a Windows desktop system, and do the monitoring from there. Bear in mind you'll need to install OMCI on the clients, and OMSA on the server, as well as OMCC on the ITA box.