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Smart Server Manager v1.2 – Best Practices
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What’s new to Smart Server Manager v1.2?
Smart Server Manager v1.2 includes both a more robust set of functions to previous versions, as well as a
more intuitive interface which streamlines important functions, such as email alert creation. The complete
feature comparison is included below.
Features v1.0 v1.1 v1.2
Web based management console Y Y Y
Role based user administration Y Y Y
LDAP integration Y Y Y
Communication security with SSL Y Y Y
Task-automation by Script Manager Y Y Y
Dashboard Y Y Y
Network Management Server (NMS) to receive traps Y Y Y
User defined server group support N Y Y
Auto discovery Y Y Y
Agentless management Y Y Y
Multilingual UI support N N Y
Mail notification testing N N Y
Mail group notification N N Y
Report Manager N N Y
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Configurable SSM console port (HTTP & HTTPS) N N Y
System health monitoring Y Y Y
Event handling (alerting and actions) Y Y Y
System diagnostic with System Event Log (SEL) Y Y Y
Remote power control (on/off/reset) Y Y Y
Remote ID LED control (on/off/blink) Y Y Y
Acer Smart Console integration Y Y Y
Network Management Server (NMS) for trap receiving (PET & LSI RAID) Y Y Y
Sensor/SEL/FRU history reporting Y Y Y
BMC configuration Y Y Y
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Event log export to file N Y Y
OS and BIOS information N Y Y
Software inventory N Y Y
Hardware Inventory N Y Y
Resource threshold setting and monitoring (CPU, memory, network, storage) N Y Y
Processes control and monitoring N Y Y
System services control and monitoring N Y Y
Remote OS shutdown and reboot N Y Y
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Process owner information N N Y
VM and VM host auto-grouping N Y Y
VM and VM host resource and performance monitoring and alerting N Y Y
Remote power on/off VM N Y Y
Remote desktop connection to VM N Y Y
VM and VM host performance and resource reporting N Y Y
Windows Hyper-V 2008 R2 support N Y Y
Windows Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 support N N Y
VMware ESXi 4.0 support N Y Y
VMware ESXi 4.1 support N Y Y
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ASSM Power Efficiency Management Extension v1.0 N N Y
ASSM Firmware Update Extension v1.0 N N Y
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Acer Smart Client Manager Extension N N Y