Release Notes

Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation Readme

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Dell™ OpenManage™ Client Instrumentation 8.0.0

Revised on 11 August 2010

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Installation Notes

You must have administrative privileges to install Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation (OMCI) on Microsoft®

Windows NT® based operating systems like Windows® 7, Windows Vista® and Windows® XP. This means you must

be authenticated against the target system as a user who is a member of the Administrators group, typically

Administrator. See your operating system documentation for more information on administrative privileges.

The target system must be a Dell system with SMBIOS version 2.3 or later. Otherwise, the installer exits without

installing OMCI.

Following an upgrade, it may be necessary to reboot the system for the installation to complete.

4. Following an uninstall, it may be necessary to reboot the system for the uninstall to complete.

5. On some Dell systems, the Processor Logical Processor (HyperThreading) setting in the

DCIM_BIOSEnumeration class displays Enabled or Disabled even if the installed processor does not support

hyperthreading technology. In this case, changes to the Processor Logical Processor (HyperThreading) setting

may toggle the multi-core capability on and off, rather than hyperthreading.

On some Dell systems, the Multiple CPU Cores setting in the DCIM_BIOSEnumeration class displays Enabled or

Disabled even if the installed processor does not support multi-core technology. In this case, changes to the Multiple

CPU Cores setting does nothing.

Change the Auditing object access audit policy to enable Auditing for the desired namespace in Windows Vista. See

the Microsoft article: "Access to WMI Namespaces"

for instructions on how to enable Auditing. Users of Windows XP

can enable WMI logging. See the Microsoft article: "WMI log Files"

for instructions on how to enable the WMI

logging.

If User Account Control (UAC) on Windows Vista or Windows 7 is turned on, for local users, only the built-in local

Administrator account can access the DellOMCI namespace. For remote users, if UAC is turned on, and the remote

system is part of a domain, use a domain account that is in the local Administrators group of the remote computer to

access the DellOMCI namespace of the target computer. For details, see the Microsoft article: "User Account Control

and WMI".

9. An operation that sets or verifies a BIOS password may pause the operating system for up to 5 seconds.

10. OMCI creates NT Event Log entries that reference "Server Administrator". This is a name for a low level component of

OMCI that is necessry for operation and is not OpenManage Server Administrator.

11.

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or later is required on Windows XP operating systems for OMCI to install and operate.

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