Users Guide

• 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. Also, later during installation, use the Custom installation setup

type to select the feature.

• Information — This informational condition does not affect the Typical selection of a feature.

There are two options for resolving critical dependencies:

• Click Install All Critical Prerequisites to immediately begin installing all critical prerequisites

without further interaction. Install All Critical Prerequisites may require a restart depending on

the configuration and the prerequisites installation will resume automatically after restart.

• Install each prerequisite individually by clicking the associated link with the required software.

NOTE: To configure a remote database, you do not require an SQL Express installation on the

local system. See Setting Up OpenManage Essentials Database on a Remote SQL Server. If you

are not configuring a remote database, then install SQL Express by clicking the warning

prerequisite link. Selecting Install All Critical Prerequisites does not install SQL Express.

4. Click Install Essentials.

NOTE: If you are installing OpenManage Essentials for the first time, a dialog box is displayed

prompting you to select if you want to install OpenManage Essentials on a local or remote

database. If you choose to install OpenManage Essentials on a local database, SQL Server 2012

Express is installed on the system. If you choose to install OpenManage Essentials on a remote

database, the installation follows the Custom Setup Installation steps.

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

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

agreement, and then click Next.

7. In Setup type select either Typical or Custom installation.

• If you selected Typical, click Next. Verify the installation settings in the Ready to Install the

Program page and the click Install.

NOTE: If the default ports assigned to OpenManage Essentials services are either blocked or

used by another application, a message is displayed prompting you to either unblock the

ports or select Custom installation where you can specify another port.

NOTE: The parameters of all tasks that you create are encrypted and saved. During a

reinstallation, if you choose to use a database that was retained from a previous

OpenManage Essentials installation, the existing tasks will not run successfully. To resolve

this issue, you must recreate all tasks after the installation.

• If you selected Custom, in Custom Setup, click Next and follow the instructions in Custom Setup

Installation.

8. After the installation is complete, click Finish.

If you have installed OpenManage Essentials on a virtual machine (VM), the following are the suggested

settings for the OpenManage Essentials VM:

• Increase CPU settings based on resource availability

• Disable Dynamic Memory

• Increase Memory Weight to high