Users Guide
74 Installing Management Station Software
Typical and Custom Installations
The management station installer provides two setup options: Typical Setup
and Custom Setup.
The setup program runs the Prerequisite Checker and provides information
about your system’s hardware and software that might affect installation and
operation of features.
Perform the following steps to install management station software on your
system:
1
Launch the management station installation.
2
Click
Install, Modify, Repair or Remove Management Station
and
click
Next
.
3
Select the
Typical Setup
option.
If the prerequisites are met, IT Assistant, the DRAC Tools, and BMC Utilities
are installed by default. 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 are
not 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 a remote access controller
installed on it. You can, however, 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/deselect
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 also install other
management station software using the Custom Setup option.