1. Management Suite for Dell Servers The Power of Control! Kevin Winert, Dell OpenManage Product Marketing Bryan Rhodes, Dell Alliance Product Manager, Altiris

2. Systems Management Altiris/Dell Partnership Simplify customer operations by integrating hardware and software management Management Suite for Dell Servers – Deployment Solution for Dell Servers – Blade Deployment and Management – Patch Management for Dell Servers – Monitor Solution for Dell Servers Virtualization: VMWare integration, app virtualization Integrated Oracle and Microsoft-SQL remote, scripted installs (Whitepaper) Altiris as an Implementation of Dell’s Scalable Enterprise Reference Architecture OpenManage Client Administrator 3.0 10 Altiris articles in 2005 +

3. Systems Management Dell & Altiris – A Winning Management Strategy Dell Servers Improving manageability by enabling the management tools you use Instrumentation Toolkits Driving open standards that benefit all Altiris management – Most complete, integrated Dell server management – IT Service Management: security, client, server, asset

4. Systems Management Management Suite for Dell Servers Today – Deployment Solution for Dell Servers 1.2b – Patch Management Solution for Servers (OS patch) 6.1 – Patch Management Solution for Dell Servers (hardware patch) 6.1 – Monitor Solution for Dell Servers (hardware monitor) 6.0 Coming soon – Hardware patching & monitoring for Linux servers – WinPE and Linux pre-boot environments – Plus Monitoring of SQL, Exchange (in addition to hardware, OS, IIS, AD) Linux OS patching

5. Systems Management Dell Server Management Tour Deployment Patching Monitoring

6. Systems Management Dell Deployment – New in 2.0 Support for new Dell 9 th generation servers Incorporates the Dell 32-bit Deployment Toolkit – WinPE and Linux Pre-boot environments DRAC power management BMC power management (via IPMI) Auto download of Dell Update Packages for post-OS provisioning Revamped, friendlier UI

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9. Hardware Patching – New in 6.2 Ease-of-use enhancements – New “Quick Start” interface – New dashboards and reports Hardware patching for Linux Dell Servers

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11. Systems Management Discover all supported Dell servers & server components

12. Systems Management Automatically download current catalog of all Dell updates

13. Systems Management Compare your hardware side-by-side to updates

14. Systems Management Download and distribute updates to multiple servers

15. Systems Management Follow up

16. Systems Management Altiris Has Two Dell Patch Solutions? Features Altiris Deployment Solution for Dell Servers Altiris Patch Solution for Dell Servers Separate Focus DeploymentProduction One-to-many patching from a central console OS Support Based on Dell’s Change Management Toolkit Automates patch downloads from support.dell.com Policy-based distribution  Graphical, web-based reporting  Supported By See August 2005 Power Solutions article for more info.

17. Systems Management Hardware Monitoring – New in 6.1 Quadrupled number of hardware monitoring metrics choices Monitor servers running Linux Benefits: – Real time and historical monitoring of hardware metrics – Graphical at-a-glance dashboard to view current status of Dell managed servers with drill-down support – Built-in rules to execute agent based actions (ESM Log Full) – Fully integrated with Dell OpenManage

18. Systems Management Monitor metrics such as thermals, voltage, chassis intrusion, full ESM logs, etc.

19. Systems Management First action saves the ESM log to the local server and clears the ESM log returning the state to “Normal”. Second action sends an email notifying the administrator of the warning and the corrected action

20. Systems Management Built-in dashboard provides high- level view of the state of monitored servers 3 states reported; normal, warning, and critical Drill down on a server in a particular state

21. Dell Confidential Real-time app, HW & OS monitoring in one console

22. Systems Management One of many canned reports shows most common triggered rules and number of occurrences for all monitored servers

23. Systems Management For More information User community: – www.dell.com/juice www.dell.com/juice Other URLs: – www.dell.com/altiris www.dell.com/altiris – www.dell.com/altiris/ whitepapers www.dell.com/altiris/ whitepapers – www.altiris.com/dell www.altiris.com/dell Weekly webinars schedule Recorded webcasts Joint success stories Data sheets White papers More… – www.altiris.com/delldeploy www.altiris.com/delldeploy – www.altiris.com/dellpatch www.altiris.com/dellpatch