Setup Guide

Prerequisites
Complete the following prerequisites.
Topics:
• Supported operating systems and requirements for the managing system
• Supported Operating Systems for managed systems
• Supported Dell devices and rmware
Supported operating systems and requirements for
the managing system
The following tables lists the operating systems and requirements for integrating the Dell OpenManage Connection on the systems where
the Netcool/OMNIbus version 7.3.1, 7.4, or 8.1 components are installed:
Table 1. Supported operating systems for Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 8.1
VMware vSphere ESXi Windows Server SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
(SLES)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Server (RHEL)
ESXi 5.5 Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit
(Standard, Datacenter)
SLES 12 64-bit RHEL 7.0-1 64-bit (Server)
ESXi 5.0 Windows Server 2012 64-bit
(Standard, Datacenter)
SLES 11.0-4 64-bit RHEL 6.0-7 64-bit (Client,
Server, Workstation)
ESXi 4.1 RHEL 5.7-11 64-bit (Advanced,
Desktop)
ESXi 4.0 RHEL 5.7-10 64-bit ( Server)
ESXi 3.5
ESX 3.5
Table 2. Supported operating systems for Dell OpenManage Connection for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 7.4
VMware
vSphere ESXi
Windows Server Windows Client SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server
(SLES)
Red Hat Enterprise
Linux Server (RHEL)
SUSE Linux for
Desktop (SLED)
ESXi 5.5 Windows Server 2008
R2 64-bit SP1
(Enterprise, Datacenter,
Standard)
Windows 7 32-bit SP1
(Enterprise,
Professional)
SLES 11.0-3 64-bit RHEL 6.0-5 64-bit
(Server, Workstation)
SLED 11.0-3 64-
bit
ESXi 5.0 Windows Server 2008
R2 32-bit SP2
(Enterprise, Standard)
Windows 8 64-bit
(Enterprise,
Professional, Standard)
SLES 10.0-4 64-bit RHEL 6.0-10 64-bit
(Advanced, Desktop,
Server)
SLED 10.0-3 64-
bit
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