Users Guide

Uninstalling OpenManage Essentials

NOTE: Before uninstalling OpenManage Essentials, you must uninstall Dell OpenManage Essentials MIB Import

Utility and Dell SupportAssist (if installed).

1. Click Start → Control Panel → Programs and Features.

2. In Uninstall or change a program, select Dell OpenManage Essentials and click Uninstall.

3. In the message Are you sure you want to uninstall OpenManage Essentials?, click Yes.

4. In the message Uninstalling OpenManage Essentials removes the OpenManage

Essentials database. Do you want to retain the database?, click Yes to retain the

database or click No to remove it.

Upgrading to OpenManage Essentials Version 1.2

You can upgrade to OpenManage Essentials version 1.2 from any of the following OpenManage Essentials versions:

1.0.1, 1.1, or 1.1.1.

To upgrade:

1. Double-click the OpenManage Essentials executable file.

The Dell OpenManage Install screen is displayed. The following options are available:

– Dell OpenManage Essentials — Select this option to install Dell OpenManage Essentials, Troubleshooting

Tool, and Dell OpenManage Essentials MIB Import Utility.

– Dell SupportAssist — Select to install Dell SupportAssist. SupportAssist provides proactive support

capabilities for supported Dell server, storage, and networking solutions.

– Dell Repository Manager — Select to install Dell Repository Manager. Using Repository Manager, you can

create customized bundles and repositories of Dell Update Packages, software utilities such as update

drivers, firmware, BIOS, and other applications.

– Dell License Manager — Select to install the Dell license manager. Dell License Manager is a one-to-many

license deployment and reporting tool for managing the Dell iDRAC7 licenses.

– Documentation — Click to view the online help.

– View Readme — Click to view the readme file. To view the latest readme, go to dell.com/

OpenManageManuals.

2. In Dell OpenManage Install, select Dell OpenManage Essentials and click Install.

The Dell OpenManage Essentials Prerequisites window, displays the following requirement types:

– Critical — This error condition prevents the installation of a feature.

– Warning — This warning condition may disable the Typical installation but not an Upgrade of the feature

later during installation.

– Information — This informational condition does not affect the Typical installation of a feature.

NOTE: If OpenManage Essentials version 1.1 is installed on the system on a local database using SQL Server

2008 Express edition, and an OpenManage Essentials-specific named instance SQLEXPRESSOME is not

available, the SQL Server prerequisites displays a Critical icon. To proceed with the installation, you must

install SQL Server Express 2012 SP1 with the SQLEXPRESSOME instance. Data from the earlier version of SQL

Server is migrated automatically.

3. Click Install Essentials.

4. In the install wizard for OpenManage Essentials, click Next.

5. In the License Agreement page, read the license agreement, select I accept the terms in the license agreement,

and then click Next.