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Preferences — Reference
In the Preferences page, you can configure the OpenManage Essentials console. You can set the SMTP and proxy server information, adjust session timeout, database maintenance schedules, restart services, create custom URL menu items, enable or disable internal alerts, observe daylight savings time, and enable or disable the ActiveX features.
NOTE: After modifying the console settings, click Apply to save the changes. Navigating to another portion of the console without clicking Apply resets the settings to the previously saved preferences.
Related Links
Warranty Notification Settings
Console Settings
Field
Console Session Timeout
Database Maintenance Execution Schedule
Restart All OpenManage Essentials Services
Description
Amount of user-inactive time that passes before the console automatically logs the user out.
The date and time when the database maintenance activity will begin.
NOTE: It is recommended not to run or schedule any task (discovery, inventory, status polling, and so on) during database maintenance, as the console is less responsive during database maintenance.
Restarts the services associated with OpenManage
Essentials.
Security Settings (ActiveX)
Allow MIB Import Utility Launch
Allow Remote Desktop Launch
Allow Troubleshooting Tool Launch
ActiveX Status
Installs and runs an ActiveX component on the client machine to launch the MIB Import Utility.
Installs and runs an ActiveX component on the client machine to launch remote desktop sessions.
Installs and runs an ActiveX component on the client machine to launch the Dell Troubleshooting Tool.
Displays the ActiveX status. Click Refresh Status to refresh the ActiveX status.
Time Zone Settings
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Field
Observe Daylight Savings Time for Server Selected
Region
Server Time Zone
Daylight Savings Status
Description
Click this check box to enable adjusting the scheduled date and time values based on the server's time zone.
Adjusting the server's time zone setting changes the settings in OpenManage Essentials. Enabling this option adjusts the date and time values of scheduled items when daylight savings begins or ends.
Displays the time zone and UTC offset of the server's time zone.
Displays the current daylight savings time status of the server's time zone and offset of daylight savings time. It also displays whether the server's time zone is observing daylight savings or is in standard time zone time.
Proxy Settings (used for System Update and Warranty)
Use Proxy Settings
Domain \ User name
Password
Proxy Server Address or Name
Proxy Port Number
Test Connection
Enable the use of proxy settings for internet access for
System Update and Warranty.
The domain and user name of the proxy user.
User's proxy password.
The IP address or server name of the proxy server. Check the browser's proxy LAN settings or ask your network administrator if unsure.
The port number to access the proxy server. Check the browser's proxy LAN settings or ask your network administrator if unsure.
Click to test connection to the internet with the proxy credentials.
Email Settings
Field
SMTP Server Name or IP Address
Use Credentials
Domain \ User name
Password
Port
Use SSL
Description
Enter the SMTP server name or IP address.
Enable the user credentials.
Enter the domain and user name.
Enter the user password.
Check Use Default to use the default port number or manually add the port number.
Enable this check box to use SSL.
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Alert Settings
Field
Enable Internal Health Alerts
Description
Click the check box to enable internal health alerts. When enabled, OpenManage Essentials generates internal alerts when the global health status of the device changes.
Custom URL Settings
Field
Name
Device Group
Custom URL
Date Created
Date Updated
Description
Displays the name assigned to the URL.
Displays the device group associated with the URL.
Displays the URL.
Displays the date the URL was created.
Displays the date the URL was updated.
Related Links
Warranty Notification Settings
The following table provides information about the fields displayed in the Preferences → Warranty Notification Settings page.
Field
Warranty Email Notifications
Description
Enable Warranty Email Notifications
To
From
All Devices with x days or less of warranty
Enables or disables the sending of warranty e-mail notifications.
The e-mail addresses of the recipients of the warranty notification e-mail. Each e-mail address must be a valid email address. Multiple e-mail addresses must be separated using a semicolon.
The e-mail address from which the warranty notification e-mail is to be sent. Only one e-mail address must be provided. The e-mail address must be a valid e-mail address.
Determines which devices to include in the warranty notification e-mail. Devices with warranty less than or equal to the specified days are included in the warranty notification e-mail.
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Field
Send email every
x
days
Include Devices with Expired Warranties
Next Email Will Send On
Email Settings
Description
The duration between successive warranty e-mail notifications. An update to this field takes effect only after the next warranty e-mail notification is sent.
Specifies if devices with expired warranty (0 days) or no warranty information should be included in the warranty e-mail notification.
The date and time at which the next warranty notification e-mail is to be sent. You can configure this field to set when the next warranty notification e-mail is to be sent.
After an e-mail notification is successfully sent, this field is updated automatically based on the setting in the Send email every
x
days field.
Opens the E-mail Settings page where you can configure the SMTP e-mail server.
Warranty Scoreboard Notifications
Enable Warranty Scoreboard Notifications
All Devices with x Days or less of warranty
Include Devices with Expired Warranties
Enables or disables the display of the warranty notifications icon in the OpenManage Essentials heading banner. The warranty notification icon is displayed only if a device has warranty less than or equal to the days specified in All Devices with x Days or less of warranty .
Determines which devices to include in the warranty notification email. Devices with warranty less than or equal to the specified days are included in the warranty notification email.
Specifies if devices with expired warranty (0 days) or no warranty information should be included in the Device
Warranty Report.
Related Links
Configuring Warranty Email Notifications
Configuring Warranty Scoreboard Notifications
Device Group Permissions
The following is a description of the panels and fields displayed in the Device Group Permissions portal.
Common Tasks
The Common Tasks pane displays the Edit Members of OmeSiteAdministrators option that you can use to add or remove a user from the OmeSiteAdministrators role.
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Manage Device Group Permissions
The Manage Device Group Permissions pane displays the OmeSiteAdministrators in a tree-view format. The User
Overviews are displayed in the right-side pane when you click OmeSiteAdministrators in the Manage Device Group
Permissions pane. The following are the fields in User Overviews :
Field
User Type
Domain
Description
Displays if the member is a user or user group.
Displays the domain of the user.
Name Displays the name of the user.
Device Groups for Tasks and Patch Targeting
The Device Groups for Tasks and Patch Targeting section is displayed in the right-side pane when you click a
user name
in the Manage Device Group Permissions pane. This section displays the device groups in a tree-view format.
Related Links
Managing Device Group Permissions
Adding Users to the OmeSiteAdministrators Role
Assigning Device Groups to a User
Removing Users From the OmeSiteAdministrators Role
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