Owner's Manual

Introduction

This guide describes how to install the Dell Client Management Pack version

4.1 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 SP1/R2,

System Center Essentials (SCE) 2007 SP1/2010.

NOTE: All references to SCOM in this guide are applicable to SCE as well, unless

otherwise explicit product and version information is mentioned.

Prerequisites

Management Station Requirements

The management station requirements to install the Dell Client

Management Pack version 4.1 and import the Dell Client Management Pack

are:

• SCOM 2007 SP1/R2 or SCE 2007 SPI/2010 to support the Dell Client

Management Pack.

• Microsoft .NET version 2.0 or later to install SCOM or SCE.

• Administrator access on the system to install SCOM or SCE and to import

the Dell Client Management Pack.

Managed System Requirements

Install Dell OpenManage Client Intrumentation (OMCI)on all Dell Client

computer systems.

• Ensure that all the managed systems have a valid and a fully qualified

domain name (FQDN) that you can communicate to, from the

management station.

• For the Management Pack to function with a complete feature set, ensure

the SCOM Management Server Action account has administrator

privileges on all Dell managed systems.

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