Dell OptiPlex GX110 - Manual (Page 77)

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Embedded System Setup for quickly viewing and changing the system configuration. System Setup also provides several enhanced security
features (a setup password, a system password, a system-password lock option, a write- protect option for diskette drives, and display of the
system's service tag number).
l Dell Diagnostics for evaluating the computer's components and devices.
l Video drivers designed to support the integrated Intel Direct AGP Graphics Accelerator.
l Network device drivers for several operating systems.
l Desktop Management Interface (DMI) support, which enables the remote management of your computer system's software and hardware.
l Support for Dell OpenManage™ IT Assistant .
Manageability Features
Your Dell OptiPlex GX110 Managed PC system incorporates the following hardware and software features to improve the manageability of the
system:
l Dell OpenManage IT Assistant
l Managed boot agent (MBA)
l Remote Wake Up
l Remote System Alert
l Auto Power On
l Chassis intrusion alerts
l Common Information Model (CIM) support
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Configuration change alerts
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Asset Info with support for the cost of ownership (COO) Management Information Format (MIF) standard
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Remote flash BIOS
l Remote system configuration
l Prefailure alerts
Dell OpenManage IT Assistant
The Dell OpenManage IT Assistant program is the Dell software-management application interface for DMI. It allows you to manage system-level
information, such as system configuration information and MIF database values.
Fault management features of the Dell OpenManage IT Assistant include the following:
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Alerts to warn you about events generated by SMART drives on a local or remote system
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An event log that stores events in a text file and reports the following information about events: System Name, Component Name, Date
and Time, Event Type, Event Severity, Event Class, and Event System
Configuration management features of the Dell OpenManage IT Assistant program include the following:
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Remote Wake Up support, which allows network administrators to remotely turn on Managed PC systems with Remote Wake Up capability
in a Dell DMI network
l A System Properties window that enables network administrators to view, set, or disable certain hardware configuration settings for the
local and remote systems in a Dell DMI network
l Support for the Microsoft ® System Management Server (SMS), which allows the exporting of one or more groups to an SMS directory that
the SMS administrator can access
l A monitor component for systems running Windows 98 or Windows 95 and having a display data channel (DDC)-compliant video subsystem
and monitor
l Automated inventory control of one or more groups for the remote systems in a Dell DMI network
Network administrators can automate inventory to occur every day, week, or month at a certain hour, on the hour; or you can enable
inventory as needed. The Dell OpenManage IT Assistant program creates a text file for the group(s) and saves it to a user-defined