Users Guide

6 Contents
Installation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Supported Operating System Versions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
System Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Supported Systems Management Protocol Standards
. . . . . . . . . . . 68
Digital Certificates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Installation Procedures
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Prerequisites for Installing or Upgrading Server Administrator
. . . . . . 68
Installing and Upgrading Server Administrator
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
System Recovery on Failed Installation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Failed Updates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Windows Installer Logging
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Performing an Unattended Installation of
Managed System Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
MSI Return Code
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Uninstalling Managed System Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Managed System Software Installation Using
Third-Party Deployment Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
7 Installing Managed System Software
on Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux Operating Systems . . . . . . . 85
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Unattended and Scripted Silent Installation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Before You Begin
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Installation Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Supported Operating System Versions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
System Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Installation Procedures
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Dynamic Kernel Support (DKS)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Installing and Upgrading Managed System Software
. . . . . . . . . . . 89
Performing an Unattended Installation of the
Managed System Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Uninstalling Managed System Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Using Dell OpenManage with VMware ESX Server Software
. . . . . . . . 100
Managed System Software Installation Using
Third-Party Deployment Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100