Administrator Guide

b. In the Content tab, click Add to add a distribution point, click Next.
c. In the deployment settings tab, have the following:
• Action: Install
• Purpose: Required
• Check the Send wake-up packets box.
d. In the Scheduling tab, select the time of deployment and ensure that the Rerun behavior option is set to Always rerun
program. To deploy now, click New and select Assign immediately after this event: As soon as possible.
e. In the User Experience tab ensure that the following check boxes are checked
i. Software Installation
ii. System restart(if required to complete installation)
iii. Commit changes at deadline or during a maintenance window (requires restarts).
f. In the Distribution points tab:
i. Deployment options: Download content from distribution point and run locally.
ii. Ensure that the Allow clients to share content with other clients on the same subnet option is checked.
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g. Click Next and verify that the deployment is successfully completed.
SSRS Reports
As a system administrator, you can create various reports based on the data collected from Dell Precision Optimizer’s WMI providers. If
this is desired, you can include the sms_def_dpo3.mof to extend the database definitions and fetch the corresponding data from Dell
Precision Optimizer client systems. You may select some or all the data elements you want to review. The default is set to select all Dell
Precision Optimizer data elements.
Importing the sms_def_dpo3.mof file to set hardware inventory
classes
1. In the Configuration Manager console:
a. Open the Administration page.
b. Click the Overview tab.
c. Click the Site Configuration tab and select Client Settings.
2. Right click an existing Client Setting and select the properties or create a new Custom Client Setting.
3. In the Hardware Inventory tab, select Set Classes.
4. Select Import and browse to the location of the sms_def_dpo3.mof file.
5. Click Ok to import the file and close the Hardware Inventory Classes window.
After the collected data is populated in the SQL database, you can create different types of Dell Precision Optimizer reports. The samples
(*.RDL) are provided with the Dell Precision Optimizer software. You can import these RDL files, connect them to your SQL database and
run the reports.
To Import an .RDL file
1. Open SQL Server data tools.
2. In the Solution Explorer, right click the folder in which you would like to add the .RDL file.
a. Select Add Existing Item.
b. Select the .RDL file.
3. Once the file is imported, open the file and select the Design tab.
To ensure the .RDL file is using the right data source
1. In the Report Data pane, click Datasets and right click one of the datasets and select Dataset Properties.
2. In the Dataset Properties window:
a. the Use a dataset embedded in my report is selected.
b. Under Data source, click New….
c. In the Data Source Properties window, select Use shared data source reference and select the correct data source.
d. Click Ok.
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