Dell EMC Systems Management Tools And Documentation Installation Guide Version 9.
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Contents 1 About............................................................................................................................................................. 4 Systems Management software...................................................................................................................................... 4 Managed system and management station....................................................................................................................
1 About The Systems Management Tools and Documentation Installation Guide provides an overview of the management station software and installation instructions for the same. For information on installing Server Administrator, see the Dell EMC Server Administrator Installation Guide in the Dell EMC Systems Management Tools and Documentation software.
Systems Management Tools and Documentation software The Systems Management Tools and Documentation comprises of the systems management software. The systems management software helps you to manage the systems by monitoring the system components, diagnosing issues, notifying through alerts, and troubleshooting remotely. Systems management software is classified into managed system software and management station software.
• Hardware configuration • Operating system and hypervisor deployments • Hardware updates • Hardware diagnostics • Easy maintenance of PowerEdge servers The Dell Lifecycle Controller is embedded on all the 11th generation and later PowerEdge servers. No tools or downloads are required to use the capabilities of Lifecycle Controller. For more information, see the following documents available at dell.
DTK Deprecation Message The OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) along with the associated tools and capabilities will be deprecated for version 6.0.1 and later: • Redundant Array of Independent Disks Configuration (RAIDCFG) Utility • System Configuration (SYSCFG) Utility • ELI tool • Utility Partition (UPINIT) It is recommended to use the RACADM Command Line (CLI) as a replacement for the RAIDCFG and SYSCFG utilities. For more information on downloading RACADM, see support.dell.com.
2 Installing management station software on Microsoft Windows 1 Log on with administrator privileges to the system on which you want to install the management station applications. 2 Mount the Systems Management Tools and Documentation software onto the DVD drive or download the web installer. 3 Run autorun.exe. NOTE: You can download the web installer from dell.com/support/home.
To install Active Directory Snap-In, launch the MSI file using the command: • msiexec /i ADSnapIn_x64.msi NOTE: On the Systems Management Tools and Documentation software: • The ADSnapIn.msi file is located at SYSMGMT\ManagementStation\windows\ADSnapIn • The ADSnapIn_x64.msi file is located at SYSMGMT\ManagementStation\windows\ADSnapInx64 To install the localized version of the management station software, at the command prompt type the following: msiexec / I .
3 Installing management station software on supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Only RAC tools and BMU are supported on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and VMware ESXi Server operating systems. On systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, DVDs are auto-mounted with the -noexec mount option. This option does not allow you to run any executable from the DVD. You must mount the DVD-ROM manually and then run the executables.
