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 Installing Management Station Software
DellOpenManage™Version5.1InstallationandSecurityUser'sGuide
Overview
Installation Requirements
Installing,Upgrading,andUninstallingManagementStationSoftwareonSystemsRunningSupportedWindowsOperatingSystems
Installing, Upgrading, and Uninstalling Management Station Software on Systems Running Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server Operating Systems
Overview
The Dell™SystemsManagementConsolesCDprovidesasetupprogramtoinstall,upgrade,anduninstallDellOpenManage™ManagementStationsoftwareon
your system.
Using the setup program on the Dell Systems Management Consoles CD, you can install and upgrade Management Station software on systems running
Microsoft®Windows®operatingsystems.YoucanuninstallDellOpenManageManagementStationsoftwarewiththeDell Systems Management Consoles CD
orthroughtheoperatingsystemonsystemsrunningsupportedWindowsoperatingsystems.
The Management Station applications include Dell OpenManage IT Assistant, DRAC Tools, the BMC Utilities, and the Microsoft Active Directory®Snap-in Utility.
Some Management Station applications also run on Red Hat®Enterprise Linux and SUSE®Linux Enterprise Server operating systems. See "Installing,
Upgrading, and Uninstalling Management Station Software on Systems Running Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Operating Systems" for more specific information.
Installation Requirements
These are general requirements for management stations. Operating system-specific installation prerequisites are listed below as part of the installation
procedures for the respective applications.
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Supported Operating Systems
TheManagementStationsoftwareruns,ataminimum,oneachofthefollowingoperatingsystems:
l Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS, (version 3) x86 and Intel®Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T), Update 6 (BMC management utility and
DRAC Tools)
l RedHatEnterpriseLinuxAS,ES,andWS,(version4)forIntelx86andIntelEM64T,(BMCmanagementutilityandDRACTools)
l Windows 2000 Server SP4 (includes Server and Advanced Server)
l Windows 2000 Professional SP4
l WindowsServer™2003R2(includesStandardandEnterpriseeditions)
l Windows Server 2003 SP1 (Web Edition)
l Windows SBS 2003 SP1 (except IT Assistant)
l Windows Server 2003 Standard and Enterprise x64 R2 (except IT Assistant)
l Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 (includes Express, Standard, Workgroup, and Enterprise editions)
l Windows XP SP2
l SUSELinuxEnterpriseServer(version9),SP3,(BMCmanagementutilityandRACManagementStation)
l SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (version 10) Gold for Intel EM64T
For more application-specific operating systems requirements, see the documentation for that application.
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System Requirements
On Windows systems, the setup program (setup.exe) will start the Prerequisite Checker on the CD to automatically analyze your system to determine if the
systemrequirementshavebeenmet.(See"Prerequisite Checker.")
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NOTE: See the Dell OpenManage IT Assistant User's Guide for additional setup and configuration information.
NOTE: The Dell OpenManage 5.1 installer offers Multilingual User Interface support on Windows Storage Server 2003 R2, Microsoft Windows Storage
Server 2003 R2, Express x64 Edition with Unified Storage, and Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2, Workgroup x64 Edition with Unified Storage.
The Multilingual User Interface Pack is a set of language specific resource files that can be added to the English version of a supported Windows
operating system. However, the Dell OpenManage 5.1 installer supports only five languages: German, Spanish, French, Simplified Chinese, and
Japanese