Install Guide

Table 3. Availability of Systems Management Protocol by Operating Systems

Operating System SNMP CIM/WMI

Supported Microsoft Windows operating

systems.

Available from the operating system

installation media.

Always installed.

Digital Certificates

All Server Administrator packages for Microsoft are digitally signed with a certificate that helps guarantee the integrity of the installation

packages. If these packages are repackaged, edited, or manipulated in other ways, the digital signature is invalidated. This manipulation

results in an unsupported installation package and the prerequisite checker does not allow you to install the software.

Enabling Windows Installer Logging Service

Windows includes a registry-activated logging service to help diagnose Windows Installer issues.

To enable this logging service during a silent install, open the registry editor and create the following path and keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer

Reg_SZ: Logging

Value: voicewarmup

The letters in the value field can be in any order. Each letter turns on a different logging mode. Each letter's actual function is as follows

for MSI version 3.1:

v — Verbose output

o — Out-of-disk-space message

i —Status message

c — Initial UI parameter

e — All error message

w — Non-fatal warning

a — Startup of action

r — Action-specific record

m — Out-of-memory or fatal exit information

u — User request

p — Terminal property

+ — Append to existing file

! — Flush each line to the log

"*" — Wildcard, log all information except for the v option. To include the v option, specify "/l*v".

Once activated, the log files are generated in the %TEMP% directory. Some log files generated in this directory are:

• Managed System Installation

• SysMgmt_<timestamp>.log

These log files are created by default if the prerequisite checker user interface (UI) is running.

Microsoft Active Directory

If you use Active Directory service software, you can configure it to control access to the network. The Active Directory database is

modified to support remote management authentication and authorization. Server Administrator, Integrated Remote Access Controller

(iDRAC), Chassis Management Controller (CMC), and Remote Access Controllers (RAC), can interface with Active Directory. Using

Active Directory, add and control users and privileges from a central database.