Owner's Manual

22 Installing, Uninstalling, and Upgrading Dell Management Console

• SQL Express 2005 Express

for up to 500 managed systems

Microsoft SQL Express 2008, SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 (64-bit

Remote Only) for 500+ managed systems

• At least 8 GB of free disk space. 10 GB of free disk space is recommended.

• Internet Information Services 6.0

• Microsoft Internet Explorer

version 7.0 or 8.0

For more information on the installation prerequisites see the

Support

Information Matrix for Dell Management Console Version 1.1

Other Considerations

• Do not configure the management station as a Windows

Domain Controller.

• If you are installing the Dell Management Console through the

Terminal Service, ensure that the installation is through the console

session. For example, mstsc/console.

• (Highly recommended) On the management station, install configure and

enable the HyperText Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer

(HTTPS).

• If you are upgrading to this release of Dell Management Console, then use

SIM. SIM must be connected to internet for getting the latest updates.

When you launch SIM, all the critical updates are listed and the

recommended updates are listed in the

Updates

section. Select Dell

Management Console.

Installing Dell Management Console

You can install the Dell Management Console and other utilities from the

Dell Management Console DVD or download and install it from the Dell

website at dell.com/openmanage. You can also install the dependencies for

Dell Management Console from this installer.

Insert the

Dell Management Console

DVD into the DVD drive. If the

installation program does not start automatically, navigate to the root

folder of the DVD and double-click

setup.exe

The Dell Management Console dialog box is displayed.

On the Welcome screen, select

Install Dell Management Console

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