Owner's Manual

Contents 7
CIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
IPMI
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Factors That Affect Protocol Choice . . . . . . . . 56
Summary of Pre-Installation Decisions . . . . . . . . . 63
5 Installing, Uninstalling, and
Upgrading Dell OpenManage
IT Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Installation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
TCP/IP Protocol Support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Setting Up or Enabling Protocols for
Agent Communication
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Installing SNMP on the IT
Assistant System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Enabling CIM
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Setting Up RBAC User Information
. . . . . . . . . . . 70
Prerequisite Checker
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Installing IT Assistant
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Launching IT Assistant
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Upgrading from Previous Version
of IT Assistant
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Upgrading IT Assistant version 8.x to
IT Assistant version 8.7
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Upgrading IT Assistant version 8.6 to
IT Assistant version 8.7
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Upgrading IT Assistant After Migrating
to Windows Server 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
System Recovery on Failed Installation . . . . . . . . . 76