Owner's Manual

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (64-bit)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (64-bit)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (64-bit)
DSET Collector
Installation and remote report collection can be done from the following client operating systems:
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows 7
Remote report collection from the following operating systems can be done when DSET Collector is installed on
Windows/Linux:
VMware ESXi 4.0
VMware ESXi 4.1
VMware ESXi 5.0
NOTE
: Install Dell OpenManage Server Administrator version 5.5 or later on the target machine, to collect the hardware
data from ESXi remotely.
Supported Web Browsers
Internet Explorer 7.0 and later versions for viewing the reports in Windows platform.
Installation
Following are the prerequisites for Windows and Linux operating system:
Prerequisites
For Windows:
You need to be logged in as a local or domain Administrator.
To Install DSET on Microsoft Windows 2008, Microsoft
Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows 7 as a standard
user, run
the DSET installer with elevated
privileges using "Run As" option.
To install DSET Provider, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service must be running.
o
If WMI is stopped, DSET starts WMI automatically
and continues with installation.
o
If WMI is disabled, installation of DSET terminates with an error message.
For Linux:
You need to be logged in as the root user.
Enable SSH services for remote report collection from Linux systems.
Make sure that the user credentials supplied for remote report collection can initiate SSH connection
and have root
privileges.