Users Guide

100 Installing Managed System Software on Windows Operating Systems
IPMI support. If your system is running Windows Server 2003 R2 or Windows
Storage Server R2, it is recommended that after you install or upgrade Server
Administrator, you also install the optional Hardware Management
component of R2.
To install the Windows Server 2003 R2 IPMI driver on PowerEdge x8xx and
PowerVault x00 systems, perform the following additional step:
• From a command shell, execute the following command:
Rundll32 ipmisetp.dll, AddTheDevice
NOTE: This step is not required on PowerEdge x9xx systems.
After you install the Hardware Management component of Windows Server
2003 R2 operating system and perform the additional step to install the
Windows Server 2003 R2 IPMI driver (on PowerEdge x8xx systems), restart
the DSM SA Data Manager service so that Server Administrator can switch
over from using its own internal IPMI support to using the Windows Server 2003
R2 IPMI driver. To restart the service, you can either manually restart the
service or reboot the system.
If you uninstall the Windows Server 2003 R2 IPMI driver later, either by
manually uninstalling it or by uninstalling the Hardware Management
component (which will uninstall the driver), restart the DSM SA Data Manager
service so that Server Administrator can switch over from using the Windows
Server 2003 R2 IPMI driver to using its own internal IPMI support. To restart the
service, you can either manually restart the service or reboot the system.
Digital Certificates
All Server Administrator packages for Microsoft are digitally signed with a
Dell certificate that helps guarantee the integrity of the installation packages.
If these packages are repackaged, edited, or manipulated in other ways, the
digital signature will be invalidated. This manipulation results in an
unsupported installation package and the Prerequisite Checker will not allow
you to install the software.