Users Guide

58 Installing Management Station Software

Installing and Upgrading Management Station Software

This section explains how to install and upgrade Management Station software. The installation options

are as follows:

• Use the setup program on the

Dell Systems Management Consoles

CD to install or upgrade

IT Assistant and other Management Station software.

• Use the unattended installation method through the

msiexec.exe

Windows Installer Engine

(see Table 5-1) to install IT Assistant and other Management Station software on multiple systems.

Typical and Custom Installations

The Dell Systems Management Consoles CD features a Typical Setup option and a Custom Setup option

for installing IT Assistant and other Management Station software.

When you insert the Dell Systems Management Consoles CD in your system's CD drive, the setup

program runs the Prerequisite Checker to provide information about your system’s hardware and

software that might affect installation and operation of the features.

You can install all of the Management Station software products that are currently installed on your

system by doing the following:

Launch the Management Station installation.

Click

Install, Modify, Repair or Remove Management Station

and click

Select the

Typical Setup

option.

If the prerequisites are met, IT Assistant and the DRAC Tools and BMC Utilities are installed by default,

while the Active Directory Snap-in Utility is not selected by default and can be installed using the

Custom Setup option. (For more information about how to perform a Typical Setup, see the Software

Quick Installation Guide, which you can access by clicking Info on the task bar within the setup program.)

NOTE: During a Typical installation, individual Management Station services will not be installed on managed

systems that do not meet the specific hardware and software requirements for that service. For example, the

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Remote Access Service software module will not be installed during a

Typical installation unless the managed system has an installed remote access controller. A user, however, can go

to Custom Setup and select the Remote Access Service software module for installation.

When you select the Custom Setup option, you can deselect one or more software features that the setup

program has identified as appropriate for the installed options on the system. During a Typical Setup,

you cannot add to the list of features to install because all of the features that are appropriate for the

hardware configuration are pre-selected.

The sections that follow illustrate the Custom Setup option using an install and upgrade of IT Assistant

as an example. You can install other Management Station software using the Custom Setup option.