Install Guide

Prerequisites for Dell Command | Monitor 10.1.0
Before installing Dell Command | Monitor, ensure that your system meets the following requirements.
Topics:
• Prerequisites for systems running on Microsoft Windows
• Prerequisites for systems running on Linux
Prerequisites for systems running on Microsoft
Windows
• Systems must be compatible with a WMI-ACPI compliant BIOS. If a system does not have a WMI-ACPI compliant BIOS over which to
install Dell Command | Monitor, update the BIOS with a compatible version. For more information, refer to the Dell Command | Monitor
Release Notes.
• The target system is a Dell manufactured system with System Management Basic Input Output System (SMBIOS) 2.3 or later.
Otherwise, the Dell Command | Monitor installer exits without installing.
NOTE
: To view the SMBIOS version of the system, choose any one of the following methods:
– Go to Start > Run, and run the msinfo32.exe le. Check for the SMBIOS version in the System Summary
page.
– Run the following commands:
Get-CimInstance Win32_BIOS | select SMBIOSMajorVersion
Get-CimInstance Win32_BIOS | select SMBIOSMinorVersion
• The system is running a supported Microsoft Windows operating system. For more information, on supported Microsoft Windows
operating systems, see Supported operating systems.
• The .NET Framework 4.0 or later is installed.
• You have administrative privileges on the client system. This means that you must be authenticated on the client system as a user who
is a member of the Administrators group, typically the Administrator.
Prerequisites for systems running on Linux
• The system is a Dell manufactured system with System Management Basic Input Output System (SMBIOS) 2.3 or later.
NOTE
: To view the SMBIOS version of the system running Ubuntu Desktop, run the following command:
dmidecode -t
• The system is running on a supported Linux operating system. For more information, on supported Linux operating systems, see
Supported operating systems.
• Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) 1.1.0-4 is installed for Ubuntu Desktop 16.04 (64-bit) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 operating
systems; and Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) 1.1.0-2 is installed for Ubuntu Core 15.04 (64-bit).
• The HAPI client side shared libraries 9.0.1 is installed.
• libxml2 should be installed.
• For the systems running Ubuntu Core 16, snap version 2.23 or later is installed.
• You have root access on the target system. This means that you must be authenticated on the target system as a user who is a
member of the root user group.
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