Release Notes

Installation Instructions
For information and procedure for installing Dell Command | Monitor, see the Dell Command | Monitor - Installation Guide,
available at dell.com/dellclientcommandsuitemanual.
Topics:
• Prerequisites for systems running on Windows
• Prerequisites for systems running on Linux
• Installation process
Prerequisites for systems running on 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 Windows operating system. For more information, on supported 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.
● Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019.
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, and OMI 1.6.4-0 for Ubuntu Server/Desktop 20.04, Ubuntu 20.04 and RHEL-8.
● 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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