Owner's Manual

14 Introduction
For upgrading from earlier releases of Dell Management Console to this
release, see the Support Information Matrix for Dell Management Console
Version 1.1.
Getting Started With Dell Management Console
To install and set up Dell Management Console, consider the following
process:
1
Plan the Dell Management Console installation — Plan the installation
based on the following requirements:
•Network size
• Network devices that you want to manage and the protocols required
to communicate with the network devices; for example, Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Windows® Management
Interface (WMI), Web Services for Management (WS-MAN), or the
Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) protocols, and so
on. For more information on the devices and the required protocols,
see Table 5-1.
• Attributes that you want to monitor. For example, you can manage
only the health, or health and performance of your devices.
• Tiered software deployment to a number of sites. For more
information, see the Symantec documentation available from
Help 
Documentation Library or Help  Context .
For more information, see “Planning Your Dell Management Console
Installation.”
2 Install Dell Management Console — You can install Dell Management
Console using the
Dell Management Console DVD or from the Dell
website at
dell.com/openmanage . For more information on installing the
Dell Management Console, see “Installing, Uninstalling, and Upgrading
Dell Management Console.”
3 Preparing to configure Dell Management Console — It is of utmost
importance to
plan for the configuration of Dell Management Console
and your network devices. Plan to configure the following details:
• Discovery tasks, for example, defining Include ranges and Exclude
ranges, such as IP addresses, subnets, host names, and custom ranges
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