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– Yes, reboot my system now.
– No, I will reboot my system later.
NOTE: If you have selected Remote Enablement during installation, an error message A provider,
WinTunnel, has been registered in the Windows Management Instrumentation
namespace ROOT\dcim\sysman to use the LocalSystem account. This account is
privileged and the provider may cause a security violation if it does not
correctly impersonate user requests. is logged in Windows Event Log. You can safely ignore this
message and continue with installation.
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Performing an Unattended Installation of Managed System
Software
The Dell OpenManage installer features a Typical Setup option and a Custom Setup option for the unattended
installation procedure.
Unattended installation enables you to simultaneously install Server Administrator on multiple systems. Perform an
unattended installation by creating a package that contains the necessary managed system software files. The
unattended installation option also provides several features that enable you to configure, verify, and view information
about unattended installations.
The unattended installation package is distributed to the remote systems using a software distribution tool from an
independent software vendor (ISV). When the package is distributed, the installation script executes to install the
software.
Creating and Distributing the Typical Unattended Installation Package
The Typical Setup unattended installation option uses the Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD as
the unattended installation package. The msiexec.exe /i SysMgmt.msi /qb command accesses the DVD to
accept the software license agreement and installs all the required Server Administrator features on selected remote
systems. These features are installed on the remote systems based on the system's hardware configuration.
NOTE: After an unattended installation, to use the Server Administrator command line interface (CLI), you must
open a new console and execute the CLI commands from there. Executing CLI commands from the same console
window in which Server Administrator was installed does not work.
You can make the DVD image available to the remote system by either distributing the entire contents of the media, or by
mapping a drive from the target system to the location of the DVD image.
Mapping a Drive to Act as the Typical Unattended Installation Package
Perform the following tasks to map a drive to act as the typical unattended installation package.
1. Share an image of the Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD with all the remote systems on
which you want to install Server Administrator.
You can either directly share the DVD or share the contents of the DVD copied to a drive.
2. Create a script that maps a drive from the remote systems to the shared drive described in step 1. This script should
execute msiexec.exe /i Mapped Drive\SYSMGMT\srvadmin\windows\ SystemsManagement
\SysMgmt.msi /qb after the drive has been mapped.
3. Configure the ISV distribution software to distribute and execute the script created in step 2.
4. Distribute this script to the target systems by using the ISV software distribution tools.
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