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Creating an asset tag, Creating diagnostic diskettes – Dell PowerEdge 350 User Manual

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Using the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD

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Creating Diagnostic Diskettes

To create diagnostic diskettes from the

Dell OpenManage Server Assistant

CD, select

Create Diskettes from the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant menu and then con-
tinue down the menu hierarchy by selecting the following categories:
PowerEdge 350, Diskette Set, System Utilities, Server Diagnostics. Create five
Server Diagnostics diskettes. To run the diagnostics, reboot your system with the first
diskette you made.

Creating an Asset Tag

Using Dell OpenManage IT Assistant, you can enter an asset tag number for your sys-
tem. An asset tag number can have up to ten characters and any combination of
characters, excluding spaces.

To create an asset tag number, perform the following steps:

1.

From the

Dell OpenManage Server Assistant

CD, select Dell OpenManage IT

Assistant in Read/Write mode.

2.

From the main Dell OpenManage IT Assistant window, select Servers.

3.

From the new window, select the particular server for which you wish to create
the asset tag.

4.

Select the Status tab and click the Asset Tag Field.

5.

Log in to Dell OpenManage IT Assistant. You must have administrative rights to
do this.

6.

In the Edit Attribute dialog box, type the asset tag number you want to assign to
the system and click OK.