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Using IT Assistant to Manage Blade Servers

Overview This paper primarily focuses on details about the features of Dell OpenManage IT Assistant for Dell’s blade server systems. It discusses discovery of blade servers, ERA and Switch modules, and the server chassis. The paper also talks about report summary and status information for all components of the blade server chassis, system inventory for the different versions of BIOS, FW, software, IPs, MAC, etc., and search for systems with xxx IP address, or running W2K, or having BIOS version xxx.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Dell Computer	File Format	WORD
Date Published	September 2002	Downloads	17
Format	White Papers
Topics	Monitoring Systems, Blades

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