Owner's Manual

88 Configuring Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to Monitor Your Systems
4 Enter your password.
As IT Assistant starts up, an authentication certificate pop-up box will
appear. You must click
OK within 5 minutes to accept these certificates
or IT Assistant will not load properly and certain critical features will
not function.
You may see several pop-ups during IT Assistant startup. Pop-ups
prompting you to accept an authorization certificate can be avoided by
selecting
View Certificate  Install Certificate (if available) or choosing
Always in response to the request to accept the certificate.
NOTE: If the system from where you are accessing the IT Assistant UI from
a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, you may get several warning
dialogs prompting you to allow regedit to be used. This is caused by
IT Assistant modules trying to find the applications that are installed on that
system. Click OK to allow
regedit to run. IT Assistant does not make
changes to the registry; it only reads the registry.
NOTE: See the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Installation Guide for
more information on X.509 Certificate management.
Configuring SNMP for System Manageability
Before configuring SNMP for system manageability, let us look at the two
scenarios we will use to illustrate IT Assistant in this section:
Two systems administrators—let us call them Jane and Tom—are responsible
for managing two separate network environments. Jane represents the
small-to-medium size business (50 servers, plus over 200 client systems,
and 10 switches), while Tom represents a much larger enterprise
(1,000 servers, plus printers, tapes, and virtual machines). Although Jane
and Tom both use IT Assistant to discover and manage their systems,
the way they configure and use IT Assistant will differ significantly.
However, before highlighting the differences, let us look at some basic steps
both must perform.