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Dell KACE and OpenManage Essentials

shutdown and recovery options, chassis configurations, asset management, and power management and

monitoring.

For example, SNMP events may be enabled or disabled for specific event types (e.g. power supplies,

redundancy, temperature, fans, voltage, system power, memory, chassis intrusion, battery, and logs)

and severity levels. The OMCONFIG command for enabling all event types would look like:

omconfig system events enable type=<all>

Detailed documentation for the OMCONFIG command set can be found in the OMSA manual.

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/svradmin

Managing system updates

Both OME and the K1000 integrate with the Dell Update Center to provide the latest firmware and

drivers updates for the components installed in your Dell equipment purchases. Updates are identified

as critical, recommended or optional in accordance with the Dell Update Center and contain all

pertinent details such as the version number and date of release.

OME introduces an optional component for loading driver and firmware updates into a local repository

to manage reporting of available packages and scheduling deployment of the packages to systems. This

functionality relies on the OMSA agent, and allows updates to be deployed to Windows, Linux, and

ESX/ESXi host computers within the environment.

OME Dell update repository Figure 10.

The K1000 integrates Dell updates as well, allowing the administrator to leverage a consistent set of

functionality to schedule a set of driver and firmware updates to be applied to the machines that need

them in the same fashion that they schedule OS and application patching. Unlike OME, these same

processes for Dell updates and software patching may also be used for client systems, providing a

consistent approach to all systems management. Extensive reporting is also provided including driver