Users Guide

Installing Management Station Software 69
Installing Management
Station Software
Overview
The Dell Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD provides
a setup program to install, upgrade, and uninstall Dell™ OpenManage™
management station software on your system.
The management station applications include DRAC Tools, the BMC Utilities,
the Microsoft Active Directory
®
Snap-in Utility, and Dell OpenManage IT Assistant.
Except IT Assistant and the Active Directory Snap-in, all management
station applications also run on Red Hat
®
Enterprise Linux
®
and SUSE
®
Linux Enterprise Server operating systems. See "Installing, Upgrading, and
Uninstalling Management Station Software on Systems Running Supported
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Operating
Systems" for more information.
Installation Requirements
These are general requirements for management stations. Operating
system-specific installation prerequisites are listed below as part of the
installation procedures for the respective applications.
Supported Operating Systems
For a list of the operating systems that the Systems Build and Update Utility
supports, see the Dell Systems Software Support Matrix located at docs directory
on the Dell-provided media or on the Dell support website at support.dell.com.
For more application-specific operating systems requirements, see the
documentation for that application.
System Requirements
On Windows systems, the setup program (setup.exe) runs the Prerequisite
Checker to automatically analyze your system to determine if the system
requirements have been met. (See “Prerequisite Checker.”)