Owner's Manual

72 Installing, Uninstalling, and Upgrading Dell OpenManage IT Assistant

You can change the installation directory path and port settings for

IT Assistant or accept the defaults.

Click

Ensure that

IT Assistant

is included in the installation summary window,

then click

Install

to begin the installation.

Launching IT Assistant

After IT Assistant is installed, to launch IT Assistant, do one of the following:

• Double-click the IT Assistant icon on your desktop.

• Open a supported Web browser (see the

Dell Systems Software Support

Matrix

on the Dell Support website at

support.dell.com/manuals

for the

latest supported browsers) and connect to the IT Assistant management

station by typing the following in the in the Address bar:

https://<IT Assistant hostname>:

NOTE: The default IT Assistant port number is 2607.

NOTE: You can also access the browser-based user interface of IT Assistant

from a remote system using the above method.

If you access the IT Assistant UI from a system running supported

Windows operating system that does not have a minimum supported Java

Runtime Environment (JRE) version 6 update 11, then IT Assistant

automatically starts JRE installation on that system.

NOTE: If the system that accesses the IT Assistant user interface has JRE

version 6.0, then IT Assistant does not automatically update the JRE to version 6

update 11. In this case, update the JRE version manually by pointing the

browser to https://<host name>:<port number>/jre-6u11-windows-i586.exe.

However, if you are accessing IT Assistant from a system running

supported Linux operating system, perform the following steps:

Save the JRE installer (

jre-6u11-linux-i586-rpm.bin

) in the location

of your choice.

Extract the RPM and install JRE.

Create a soft link to this JRE in the

plugins

folder of the browser.

For example, if you have installed the JRE in the default location, create

the soft link by navigating to the

plugins

folder of your Web browser.