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Dell EMC OpenManage systems management
Whether your IT environment consists of a few servers or a few thousand servers, Dell EMC OpenManage systems management
solutions provide comprehensive management for evolving IT environments. OpenManage is based on open standards and provides
agent-based and agent-free server lifecycle management functionality for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. OpenManage solutions help
you automate and streamline essential hardware management tasks.
Start with a firm foundation for efficient hardware management using OpenManage tools, utilities and management consoles.
OpenManage systems management solutions consist of a combination of embedded management features and software products
that help you automate and simplify the entire server lifecycle: deploy, update, monitor and maintain. OpenManage solutions are
innovatively designed for simplicity and ease of use to help you reduce complexity, save time, achieve efficiency, control costs and
empower productivity. OpenManage centers around efficient management of server lifecycle.
Figure 5. Server lifecycle management operations
iDRAC with Lifecycle controller
The integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 9 (iDRAC9) with Lifecycle Controller is embedded within every Dell EMC PowerEdge
server and provides functionality that helps IT administrators deploy, update, monitor, and maintain servers with no need for any
additional software to be installed. iDRAC functions regardless of operating system or hypervisor presence because from a pre-OS or
bare-metal state, iDRAC is ready to work because it is embedded within each server from the factory.
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