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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

Administration Console

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

System Health

Management (OOB

Management)

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

OS Host

Management (In-

band

management)

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


N

Y

Y

Virtual Machine

Management


N

N

Y

ASSM Power Efficiency Management Extension v1.0

N

N

Y

ASSM Firmware Update Extension v1.0

N

N

Y

Exte

nsio

n

supp

ort

Acer Smart Client Manager Extension

N

N

Y

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