Owner's Manual

If you have a Windows firewall configured on either the management station or the managed system,
change these settings:
On the management station:
1. Open TCP port 135.
2. Add the "omremote.exe" application (located in \dmc\DMCTasksSolution\ToolsBin) to the firewall
exception list.
On the managed system:
On the command prompt, type:
"netsh firewall set service RemoteAdmin"
For more information on connecting through the Windows firewall, see Microsoft’s MSDN website
for Platform SDK: Windows Management Instrumentation (Connecting through Windows Firewall)
at:
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875605
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa822854(VS.85).aspx
Ensure the following settings are applied for users with non-administrator privileges:
1. Grant DCOM remote launch and activation permissions for a user or group.
2. Grant DCOM remote access permissions.
3. Allow users access to a specific WMI namespace.
For more information see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa393266(VS.85).aspx
* When 10G or 11G servers are discovered using multiple protocols
(SNMP+IPMI or WMI+IPMI), the task substitution tokens
%DELL_DEVICE_IPADDRESS%" and "%DELL_RAC_IPADDRESS%" may not work
properly.
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* When a task is running, the task status may be incorrectly shown as
Pending. Double click on the task run instance to view the correct
status.
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ESX Support
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* The Altiris Agent is not supported on ESX 4.0 (classic). As a
result, Dell Patch Management and Performance metrics are not
supported.
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Installing Dell Management Console into a Virtual Machine (VM)
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* Dell Management Console is tested to install in the following
VM environment:
--ESX 3.5 U4
Other notes for VM installs: