Users Guide

NOTE: If you are installing OpenManage Essentials for the rst time, a dialog box is displayed prompting you to

select if you want to install OpenManage Essentials on a local or remote database. If you choose to install

OpenManage Essentials on a local database, SQL Server 2012 Express is installed on the system. If you choose to

install OpenManage Essentials on a remote database, the installation follows the Custom Setup Installation steps.

5. In the install wizard for OpenManage Essentials, click Next.

6. In the License Agreement page, read the license agreement, select I accept the terms in the license agreement, and then

click Next.

7. In Setup type select either Typical or Custom installation.

• If you selected Typical, click Next. Verify the installation settings in the Ready to Install the Program page and the click

Install.

NOTE: If the default ports assigned to the OpenManage Essentials services are either blocked or used by

another application, a message is displayed prompting you to either unblock the ports or select the Custom

installation where you can specify another port.

NOTE: The parameters of all tasks that you create are encrypted and saved. During a reinstallation, if you choose

to use a database that was retained from a previous OpenManage Essentials installation, the existing tasks will

not run successfully. To resolve this issue, you must recreate all tasks after the installation.

• If you selected Custom, in Custom Setup, click Next and follow the instructions in Custom Setup Installation.

8. After the installation is complete, click Finish.

If you have installed OpenManage Essentials on a virtual machine (VM), the following are the suggested settings for the

OpenManage Essentials VM:

• Increase CPU settings based on resource availability.

• Disable Dynamic Memory.

• Increase Memory Weight to high.

Custom Setup Installation

To install OpenManage Essentials using custom setup:

1. In Custom Setup, click Change to change the installation location, and then click Next.

2. In custom settings for port numbers, if required, change default values for Network Monitoring Service port number, Task

Manager Service port number, Package Server Port, and Console Launch port and then click Next.

3. In Database Server, do any of the following and then click Next:

• Local database—If you have multiple SQL Server versions available on the management system and you want to select an

SQL Server on which you want to set up the OpenManage Essentials database, then select the SQL server from the

Database Server list, the type of authentication, and provide the authentication details. If you do not select a database

server, by default, a supported version of SQL Server Standard, Enterprise, or Express that is available is selected for the

installation. For more information, see the Installing Dell OpenManage Essentials technical white paper at

delltechcenter.com/ome.

• Remote database— Complete the prerequisites. For more information, see Setting Up OpenManage Essentials Database on

a Remote SQL Server. After the prerequisites are complete, click Browse and select the remote system and then provide

the authentication details. You can also set up the OpenManage Essentials database on a remote system by providing the IP

address or host name and the database instance name of the remote system in Database Server.

NOTE: If you select the Custom install option and do not enter any credentials, the installation is considered as a

typical installation and sysadmin rights are required.

NOTE: If you have multiple database instances running on a selected database server, you can specify the required

database instance name to congure the Essentials database with it. For example, using (local)\MyInstance, you are

conguring Essentials database on a local server and MyInstance named database instance.

NOTE: The parameters of all tasks that you create are encrypted and saved. During a reinstallation, if you choose to

use a database that was retained from a previous OpenManage Essentials installation, the existing tasks will not run

successfully. To resolve this issue, you must recreate all tasks after the installation.