Users Guide

Custom Setup Installation

To install OpenManage Essentials using custom setup:

1. In Custom Setup, click Change to change the installation location, and then click Next.

2. In custom settings for port numbers, if required, change default values for Network Monitoring

Service port number, Task Manager Service port number, Package Server Port, and Console

Launch port and then click Next.

3. In Database Server, do any of the following and then click Next:

• Local database—If you have multiple SQL Server versions available on the management system

and you want to select an SQL Server on which you want to set up the OpenManage Essentials

database, then select the SQL server from the Database Server list, the type of authentication,

and provide the authentication details. If you do not select a database server, by default, a

supported version of SQL Server Standard, Enterprise, or Express that is available is selected for

the installation. For more information, see the Installing Dell OpenManage Essentials technical

white paper at delltechcenter.com/ome.

• Remote database— Complete the prerequisites. For more information, see Setting Up

OpenManage Essentials Database on a Remote SQL Server. After the prerequisites are complete,

click Browse and select the remote system and then provide the authentication details. You can

also set up the OpenManage Essentials database on a remote system by providing the IP address

or host name and the database instance name of the remote system in Database Server.

NOTE: If you select the Custom install option and do not enter any credentials, the installation

is considered as a typical installation and sysadmin rights are required.

NOTE: If you have multiple database instances running on a selected database server, you can

specify the required database instance name to configure the Essentials database with it. For

example, using (local)\MyInstance, you are configuring Essentials database on a local server and

MyInstance named database instance.

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.

4. Verify the installation settings in the Ready to Install the Program page and the click Install.

Setting Up OpenManage Essentials Database on a Remote

SQL Server

You can configure OpenManage Essentials to use an SQL Server present on a remote system. Before

setting up the OpenManage Essentials database on the remote system, check for the following

prerequisites:

• Network communication between the OpenManage Essentials system and the remote system is

functioning.

• SQL connection works between the OpenManage Essentials system and the remote system for the

specific database instance. You can use the Microsoft SQL Server Express 2012 Management Studio

tool to verify the connection. On the remote database server, enable TCP/IP protocol and if you are

using SQL Authentication, enable mixed mode on the remote SQL Server.

You can retarget the database for the following:

• SQL credentials to the SQL Server fails.