Users Guide

6 Contents
6 Installing Managed System Software on
Microsoft
®
Windows
®
Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Dell PowerEdge Installation and Server Management CD
. . . . . . . . . 73
Unattended and Scripted Silent Installation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Before You Begin
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Installation Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Supported Operating System Versions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
System Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Supported Systems Management Protocol Standards
. . . . . . . . . . . 76
Windows Server 2003 R2 and the R2 IPMI Device Driver
. . . . . . . . . 76
Digital Certificates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Installation Procedures
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Prerequisites for Installing or Upgrading Server Administrator
. . . . . . 77
Installing and Upgrading Server Administrator
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
System Recovery on Failed Installation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Failed Updates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Windows Installer Logging
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Upgrading the MSI Engine
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Performing an Unattended Installation of
Managed System Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
MSI Return Code
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Uninstalling Managed System Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Managed System Software Installation Using Third-Party
Deployment Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
7 Installing Managed System Software on
Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux and SUSE
®
Linux
Operating Systems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Unattended and Scripted Silent Installation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Before You Begin
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Installation Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Supported Operating System Versions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
System Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97