Owner's Manual

Planning Your Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Installation 51
Primary Planning Questions
System types and network management objectives differ among enterprises.
Answering the following questions can better prepare you for an IT Assistant
installation that will support your company's goals for network management.
After reading this section, see Table 4-4 before performing your installation.
1
What are the basic hardware and operating system requirements for
installing IT Assistant? Does my enterprise meet them?
2 Is there any reason to select a particular operating system among those
that are supported when installing IT Assistant?
3 Is there any reason to select a particular hardware configuration when
installing IT Assistant?
4 Do I want to use the default installed database (Microsoft SQL
Server 2005 Express Edition SP2) or should I install the Microsoft
SQL 2005 Server SP2 database?
• How many systems do I want to discover or manage?
• How dense do I expect the event traffic to be on my network?
5 Which systems management protocol(s) should I plan to install or enable?
• What type of systems do I want to manage?
• What agents and instrumentation are currently installed on my
managed systems?
• What agents do I want to eventually run on my managed systems?
• Which protocols do these agents require or support?
6 How should I organize my managed systems’ IP addresses if I am using
more than one systems management protocol on a subnet?
Selecting the Operating System
You can install IT Assistant on any system that is running an operating system
listed in Table 4-1.