DELL Version 5.3 User Manual
Quick Navigation | Getting Started with Dell OpenManage Network Manager
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Quick Navigation
The Quick Navigation portlet lets you quickly perform some basic tasks:
Resource Discovery—Discover devices in your network with the Quick Discovery defaults, or lets
Resource Discovery—Discover devices in your network with the Quick Discovery defaults, or lets
you construct a Quick Discovery profile if none exists. See Resource Discovery on page 180
for details.
Link Discovery—After you have discovered resources, this discovers their connections. See Link
Backup Config Files—This lets you back up discovered devices’ configuration files. Before you
can use this feature, you must have servers configured as described in Netrestore File Servers
OS Image Upload—Upload firmware updates for devices. See Firmware Image Editor on page
283 for more about these capabilities.
Deploy OS Image—This deploys firmware updates. To deploy images, you must have File Servers
configured, as described above for Backup. See Deploy Firmware on page 287.
License Management—This lets you see and manage the licensed capabilities of Dell
OpenManage Network Manager. See License Viewer below for details.
Admin user and Power User can see all the above menu items. The User role sees only sees four.
Link discovery and OS image upload do not appear by default. To see them, you must give User
'write' permission.
Network Tools
The Network Tools portlet lets you invoke a variety of existing functions on a device without having
the device currently discovered. When installed, the Network Tools application appears listed as an
available Application to install as a portlet.
Before you can use the tools you must enter an ip address in the ip address field. Once you have
entered that address, 7you can use the following: