Owner's Manual

170 Managing Tasks

Obtain a Server Administrator .msp file for Windows or the .tar.gz for Linux

from one of the following sources:

•

Dell Server Updates

DVD or the

Dell PowerEdge Server Update Utility

• Dell Support website at

support.dell.com

For installing Dell Agent on a Linux system, ensure that you choose the

specific Web pack for that Linux distribution.

Use the task management feature in IT Assistant to create a Software Agent

Deployment task to schedule the deployment of Server Administrator on

multiple systems on the network. After Server Administrator is installed, the

new status will display:

• Only if you forcibly discover, inventory, or do a manual status poll.

• After the next scheduled discovery, inventory, or status poll.

NOTE: The protocol configuration settings for inventory must be specified for the

device during initial device detection and the corresponding services must be

running on the device.

To use the complete functionality of IT Assistant, ensure that you have the

required 32-bit compatible libraries installed on the managed Linux systems.

The following 32-bit compatible libraries are required on the managed Linux

systems.

• compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3

•libxml2

•pam

•glibc

•zlib

•libgcc