- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Overview
- Getting started
with SupportAssist
- Downloading the SupportAssist installation package
- Minimum requirements for installing and using SupportAssist
- Installing SupportAssist
- Registering SupportAssist
- Setting up an SELinux enabled system to receive alerts
- Upgrading SupportAssist (Windows only)
- Opening the SupportAssist user interface
- Logging in to SupportAssist
- Logging out of SupportAssist
- Adding devices for monitoring
- Viewing cases and devices
- Device grouping
- Understanding maintenance mode
- Maintaining SupportAssist capability
- Configuring email notifications
- Configuring
data collection settings
- Prerequisites for collecting system information
- Enabling or disabling the automatic collection of system information on case creation
- Enabling or disabling the periodic collection of system information from all devices
- Customizing the schedule for periodic collection of system information
- Disabling the periodic collection of system information from specific devices
- Enabling or disabling the collection of identity information
- Enabling or disabling the collection of software information and the system log
- Accessing the collected data
- Using SupportAssist to collect and send system information
- Other useful
information
- SupportAssist user groups
- Opting in or opting out from ProSupport Plus server recommendation report emails
- Sending the system information manually
- Support for automatically installing or upgrading OMSA
- Support for automatically configuring SNMP settings
- Device correlation
- Detection of hardware issues in attached storage devices
- Support for Dell OEM servers
- Installing Net-SNMP (Linux only)
- Configuring sudo access for SupportAssist (Linux)
- Default schedule for collection of system information
- Types of email notifications
- Ensuring successful communication between the SupportAssist application and the SupportAssist server
- Accessing the SupportAssist application logs
- Event storm handling
- Accessing the context-sensitive help
- Viewing SupportAssist product information
- Uninstalling SupportAssist
- Identifying the generation of a Dell PowerEdge server
- Troubleshooting
- Installing SupportAssist
- SupportAssist registration
- Opening the SupportAssist user interface
- Logging in to SupportAssist
- Unable to add device
- OMSA not installed
- SNMP not configured
- New version of OMSA available
- Unable to configure SNMP
- Unable to verify SNMP configuration
- Unable to install OMSA
- Unable to verify OMSA version
- Unexpected error occurred
- Unable to reach device
- Authentication failed
- Unable to gather system information
- Insufficient storage space to gather system information
- Unable to export collection
- Unable to reach Dell upload server
- Timed out sending system information
- Clearing System Event Log failed
- Maintenance mode
- Auto update
- Unable to edit device credentials
- Automatic case creation
- Scheduled tasks
- SupportAssist service
- Other services
- Security
- Error code appendix
- Dell SupportAssist user interface
- Related documents and resources
Dell SupportAssist Version 1.2 for Servers User’s Guide
Uninstalling SupportAssist (Linux)
Prerequisites
Steps
- Open the terminal window.
- Browse to the /opt/dell/supportassist/bin folder.
- Type ./uninstall and press Enter.
- To continue the uninstallation, type c.
-
When prompted for your feedback, perform one
of the following:
- To skip the feedback and start the uninstallation, type n.
- To provide feedback, type y.
- If you selected to provide feedback, press a number that matches your reason for uninstalling SupportAssist.
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