User's Manual

Minimum Requirements

Particulars Minimum Requirement

Operating systems

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard

Edition (x64)

• Windows Server 2008 SP2 Enterprise Edition

(x64)

• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard Edition

• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise Edition

• Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition

• Windows Server 2012 Enterprise Edition

• Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Edition

NOTE: OpenManage Essentials version 1.3 is

supported only on x64 operating systems.

Network 100 Mbps or higher

Web browser

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, 9, 10, or 11

• Mozilla Firefox 22 or 23

• Google Chrome 27, 28, 29, or 30

Database Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or later

NOTE: OpenManage Essentials installation is

supported only on a case-insensitive instance

of SQL Server.

User interface Microsoft Silverlight version 5.1

.NET 4.5

Microsoft Visual C++ 2012

Runtime 11.0

NOTE: For the latest update on the minimum requirements for OpenManage Essentials version 1.3,

see the OpenManage Essentials Version 1.3 Support Matrix at dell.com/OpenManageManuals.

Terms and Conditions for Using Relational Database

Management Systems

The relational database management system (RDBMS) used for installing OpenManage Essentials is

Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Server has configuration settings separate from the OpenManage Essentials

database. The server has logins (SQL or Windows) that may or may not have access to the OpenManage

Essentials database.

When OpenManage Essentials is installed, Internet security is modified by adding registry entries to the

ZoneMaps for HKLM and HKCU. This ensures that Internet Explorer identifies the fully qualified domain

name as an intranet site.

A self-signed certificate is created and this certificate is installed in the root Certificate Authorities (CA)

and My certificates.