Users Guide

Installing Management Station Software 55
Installing Management Station Software
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.
NOTE: See the Dell OpenManage IT Assistant User's Guide for additional setup and configuration 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.
Supported Operating Systems
The Management Station software runs, at a minimum, on each of the following operating systems:
• 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)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS, (version 4) for Intel x86 and Intel EM64T,
(BMC management utility and DRAC Tools)
• Windows 2000 Server SP4 (includes Server and Advanced Server)
• Windows 2000 Professional SP4
• Windows Server™ 2003 R2 (includes Standard and Enterprise editions)
• Windows Server 2003 SP1 (Web Edition)