Users Guide

• 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
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.
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