Dell Systems Management Consoles

You know that streamlining and automating your data center operations helps you optimize resource productivity. A unified view of your IT infrastructure, accompanied by a deep view into the health of system components, helps you manage your environment more effectively, reduce the risk of errors and make informed decisions about resource utilization.

The Dell OpenManage™ Essentials Console gives you a single, easy-to-use, one-to-many interface through which to manage resources in multivendor operating system and hypervisor environments. It automates basic repetitive hardware management tasks — like discovery, monitoring and updates — for Dell servers, storage and network systems. And it does so by employing the embedded management of PowerEdge™ servers — Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (iDRAC7) with Lifecycle Controller — to enable agent-free remote management and monitoring of server hardware components like storage, networking, processors and memory.

Agent-free management ensures that processor cycles are not consumed by agent execution or intensive inventory collection. In addition, an agent-free environment enhances system security. 

OpenManage Essentials helps you maximize IT performance and uptime with capabilities like:

• Automated discovery, inventory and monitoring of Dell PowerEdge™ servers, EqualLogic™ and PowerVault™ storage and PowerConnect™ switches
• Agent-free server monitoring as well as BIOS, firmware and driver updates for Dell PowerEdge servers, blade systems and internal storage
• Control of PowerEdge servers within Windows®, Linux®, VMware® and Hyper-V™ environments
• Interface with additional Dell systems management solutions including:
  • Repository Manager to facilitate and secure precise control of system updates
  • OpenManage Power Center to optimize and control power consumption
  • KACE K1000 Appliance service desk to provide actionable email alerts describing the status of Dell servers, storage and switches
  • Dell ProSupport™ phone home services for your data center resources

By enabling you to easily and comprehensively inventory, monitor and update your Dell hardware, OpenManage Essentials helps significantly reduce the complexity and time you spend on repetitive hardware management tasks — enhancing IT efficiency and freeing your IT staff to work on projects that drive innovation.

You can download OpenManage Essentials from support.dell.com for no charge here. It is supported by Dell technical services representatives.

Dell KACE Management Appliances
If you prefer an appliance-based method to manage the challenges of PC inventory and software license compliance, Dell offers KACE™ Management Appliances, featuring a highly capable, intuitive interface that enables systems administrators to easily discover, inventory, configure and manage hardware devices. The Dell KACE K1000 Systems Management Appliance can help you dramatically simplify asset management and software distribution.

If you rely on the KACE K1000 to address management of the complete PC life cycle, from deployment to retirement, you can now extend those management capabilities to encompass views into the status and health of Dell PowerEdge servers, EqualLogic and PowerVault storage, and PowerConnect switches. Actionable data center hardware alerts generated by OpenManage Essentials get emailed directly to the KACE K1000 service desk to give you comprehensive information about the performance of infrastructure assets that help you run your business.

Dell Management Console
Dell Management Console (DMC) with Altiris® Server Management Suite from Symantec™ provides sophisticated, centralized data center management capabilities that offer greater flexibility and expandability, detailed information about your IT environment and report-building options to create customized reports.

• Use Dell Management Console for basic management of Dell hardware
• Add Altiris Server Management Suite and other Symantec management plug-ins available through Dell Software and Peripherals for additional management functionality, including operating systems, applications and other IT infrastructure assets.

Take control. Drive efficiency. Get the most from your IT resources.

Contact a Dell expert to bring the advantages of OpenManage systems management and Dell platforms, solutions and services into your data center.