Dell™ OpenManage™ Client Instrumentation (OMCI) is available on Dell OptiPlex™, Dell Precision™, and Dell Latitude™ client systems. Using OMCI, system administrators can remotely manage assets, monitor system health, and inventory deployed systems in the enterprise.

OMCI interfaces with leading enterprise management consoles that support industry standards. This approach helps to ensure that Dell systems can be managed by a broad array of existing enterprise management tools. OMCI also interfaces with Dell OpenManage products such as IT Assistant and OpenManage Client Connector. Finally, tight integration with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) allows customers to take advantage of the rich scripting capabilities for collecting information and customizing system settings. OMCI is provided at no additional charge to Dell customers.

OMCI Quick Links

Dell Client Management	OMCI Reference Guide
OMCI User Guide	OMCI White Paper
OMCI and ConfigMgr 2007	Download OMCI
OMCI Sample Scripts (VBScript and PowerShell)

Installing OMCI

Installing OMCI manually is pretty simple. Just download the latest version and install with administrative rights.

To perform an unattended installation to be used with your favorite software distribution tool, perform the following steps:

1. Download the latest OMCI client.
2. Launch the downloaded executable, to extract setup.exe
3. Launch setup.exe with the following parameters:

setup.exe /s /v"/qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress /l %windir%\temp\OMCI.log"