Setup Guide

Prerequisites

You require familiarity with deploying operating systems using Dell Server Deployment Pack for Microsoft System

Center Configuration Manager (DSDP version 2.1 for Configuration Manager).

For more information, see Component-Specific Prerequisites for DLCU.

For more information, see the

Dell Server Deployment Pack for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager User’s

Guide

available at dell.com/support/manuals. Before you install Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Configuration

Manager, complete the following:

1. Configure an account for use with Discovery and Handshake. For more information, see Configuring an Account for

Use With Discovery and Handshake.

2. Make sure that the software prerequisites and requirements are available. For more information, see Software

Prerequisites and Requirements.

3. Make sure that the component specific prerequisites are available. For more information, see Component-Specific

Prerequisites.

Configuring an Account for Use With Discovery and Handshake

If you do not want to use an administrator account for the Dell Provisioning Service (DPS) to access the Configuration

Manager server, create a user account with minimal permissions.

NOTE: If you install DLCI by providing user credentials authenticated in Active Directory, and then perform the

discovery and handshake with a target system using a Non-Active Directory authenticated user credentials, the

discovery and handshake with the target system fails; to resolve this, disable the Active directory credentials.

To create a user account with minimal user permissions:

1. Create a user account on the domain, as the DPS impersonates this account while writing the Data Discovery

Record (DDR) to the inbox of the site server.

2. In the Configuration Manager 2007 console, check for the user name under Security Rights → Users. In the

Configuration Manager 2012 console check, for the user name under Administration → Security → Administrative

Users. Provide the user with the following permissions:

• Collection — Read, Modify and Create

• Site — Read and Import computer entry

3. Configure user access to Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). For more information, see Configuring

User Access to WMI.

4. Provide share and folder permissions to write files to the DDR inbox. For more information, see Providing Share and

Folder Permissions.

Configuring User Access to WMI

To configure user access to WMI remotely: