Install Guide

Prerequisites for Dell Command | Monitor

10.2.1

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, see 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 file. 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.

• .NET Framework 4.6.1 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 and later

operating systems; and Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) 1.4.2-2 is installed for Ubuntu Server/Desktop 18.04.

• The HAPI client side shared libraries 9.3.0 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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