Management Suite for Dell Servers

The Power of Control!

Kevin Winert, Dell OpenManage Product Marketing

Bryan Rhodes, Dell Alliance Product Manager, Altiris

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Altiris/Dell Partnership

Simplify customer operations by integrating hardware and software management

• Management Suite for Dell Servers

– Deployment Solution for Dell Servers

– Blade Deployment and Management

– Patch Management for Dell Servers

– Monitor Solution for Dell Servers

• Virtualization: VMWare integration, app virtualization

• Integrated Oracle and Microsoft-SQL remote, scripted installs

• (Whitepaper) Altiris as an Implementation of Dell’s Scalable Enterprise Reference Architecture

• OpenManage Client Administrator 3.0

10 Altiris articles in 2005

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Dell & Altiris – A Winning Management Strategy

• Dell Servers

Improving manageability by enabling the management tools you use

• Instrumentation

• Toolkits

• Driving open standards that benefit all

• Altiris management

– Most complete, integrated Dell server management

– IT Service Management: security, client, server, asset

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Management Suite for Dell Servers

• Today

– Deployment Solution for Dell Servers 1.2b

– Patch Management Solution for Servers (OS patch) 6.1

– Patch Management Solution for Dell Servers (hardware patch) 6.1

– Monitor Solution for Dell Servers (hardware monitor) 6.0

• Coming soon

– Hardware patching & monitoring for Linux servers

– WinPE and Linux pre-boot environments

– Plus

• Monitoring of SQL, Exchange (in addition to hardware, OS, IIS, AD)

• Linux OS patching

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Dell Server Management Tour

• Deployment

• Patching

• Monitoring

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Dell Deployment – New in 2.0

• Support for new Dell 9th generation servers

• Incorporates the Dell 32-bit Deployment Toolkit

– WinPE and Linux Pre-boot environments

• DRAC power management

• BMC power management (via IPMI)

• Auto download of Dell Update Packages for post-OS provisioning

• Revamped, friendlier UI

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Hardware Patching – New in 6.2

• Ease-of-use enhancements

– New “Quick Start” interface

– New dashboards and reports

• Hardware patching for Linux Dell Servers

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Discover all supported Dell servers & server components

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Automatically download current catalog of all Dell updates

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Compare your hardware side-by-side to updates

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Download and distribute updates to multiple servers

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Follow up

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Altiris Has Two Dell Patch Solutions?

Features

Altiris Deployment Solution for Dell Servers

Altiris Patch Solution for Dell Servers

Separate Focus Deployment Production

One-to-many patching from a central console

OS Support

Based on Dell’s Change Management Toolkit Automates patch downloads from support.dell.com

Policy-based distribution

Graphical, web-based reporting Supported By

See August 2005 Power Solutions article for more info.

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Hardware Monitoring – New in 6.1

• Quadrupled number of hardware monitoring metrics choices

• Monitor servers running Linux

• Benefits:

– Real time and historical monitoring of hardware metrics

– Graphical at-a-glance dashboard to view current status of Dell managed servers with drill-down support

– Built-in rules to execute agent based actions (ESM Log Full)

– Fully integrated with Dell OpenManage

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Monitor metrics such as thermals, voltage, chassis intrusion, full

ESM logs, etc.

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First action saves the ESM log to the

local server and clears the ESM log

returning the state to “Normal”.

Second action sends an email notifying

the administrator of the warning and the

corrected action

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Built-in dashboard provides high-

level view of the state of monitored

servers

3 states reported; normal, warning,

and critical

Drill down on a server in a

particular state

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Real-time app,HW & OS

monitoring inone console

Real-time app,HW & OS

monitoring inone console

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One of many canned reports shows most common triggered rules and

number of occurrences for all monitored servers

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For More information

• User community:

– www.dell.com/juice

• Other URLs:

– www.dell.com/altiris

– www.dell.com/altiris/whitepapers

– www.altiris.com/dell

• Weekly webinars schedule

• Recorded webcasts

• Joint success stories

• Data sheets

• White papers

• More…

– www.altiris.com/delldeploy

– www.altiris.com/dellpatch