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Dell SupportAssist Version 1.2 for Servers User’s Guide

Setting up SupportAssist for collecting and sending system information

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Installing and registering SupportAssist allows you to use SupportAssist to manually collect and send system information to Dell from the local system. To use SupportAssist to collect and send system information to Dell from remote devices, you must add each remote device in SupportAssist.
  • NOTE: The following steps are only required if you have not installed SupportAssist. If you have already installed SupportAssist, follow the instructions in Sending the system information manually to manually collect and send the system information to Dell.

Steps

  1. Install SupportAssist. See Installing SupportAssist.
  2. Register SupportAssist. See Registering SupportAssist. SupportAssist is now ready to collect system information from the local system.
  3. Add each remote device in SupportAssist. See Adding devices for monitoring .
    • NOTE: While adding the device, you may be prompted to allow SupportAssist to install or upgrade OMSA and configure the SNMP settings on the device. Even though installing OMSA and configuring the SNMP settings are not required for collecting system information from the device, Dell recommends that you install OMSA and configure the SNMP settings on the device. System information collected from devices running OMSA contains additional troubleshooting information that may not be available in the data collected from devices that are not running OMSA.
    SupportAssist is now ready to collect system information from remote devices.

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