Users Guide

Contents 7
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Installation Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Supported Operating System Versions
. . . . . . 97
System Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Supported Systems Management
Protocol Standards
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Windows Server 2003 R2 and the R2 IPMI
Device Driver
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Digital Certificates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Installation Procedures
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Prerequisites for Installing or Upgrading
Server Administrator
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Installing and Upgrading Server Administrator
. . 102
System Recovery on Failed Installation
. . . . . . 109
Failed Updates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Windows Installer Logging
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Upgrading the MSI Engine
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Performing an Unattended Installation of
Managed System Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . 112
MSI Return Code
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Uninstalling Managed System Software
. . . . . . 120
Managed System Software Installation Using
Third-Party Deployment Software
. . . . . . . . . . . 124
7 Installing Dell OpenManage Software
On Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Core
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Installing Managed System and Management Station
Software On Server Core
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Run PreReqChecker In CLI Mode
. . . . . . . . . 125