Dell OpenManage Essentials Installation Manual

Pavan Kumar Manoj Poonia Jayachandran Thalakkal Kunhani

Enterprise Product Group

Installing Dell OpenManage Essentials

This technical white paper describes how to install OpenManage Essentials.

Installing Dell OpenManage Essentials

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Contents

Executive summary ................................................................................................... 5

What is OpenManage Essentials? .................................................................................... 5

Minimum installation requirements ................................................................................ 5

Installation procedures .............................................................................................. 7

Installation flowchart ............................................................................................... 7

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Critical prerequisites ............................................................................................. 10

Automatically installing all critical prerequisites ........................................................... 11

Typical installation ................................................................................................. 11

Custom installation ................................................................................................. 12

Remote database installation ..................................................................................... 13

OpenManage Essentials supporting utilities ..................................................................... 15

Troubleshooting Tool .............................................................................................. 15

Dell OpenManage Essentials MIBI................................................................................. 15

Upgrade workflow flowchart ....................................................................................... 16

Uninstalling ........................................................................................................... 18

Repair (program maintenance) .................................................................................... 19

Learn more ........................................................................................................... 19

Conclusion ............................................................................................................ 19

Tables

Table 1. Minimum recommended hardware .................................................................... 5

Table 2. Minimum software and network requirements ...................................................... 6

Table 3. Minimum login roles for Microsoft SQL Server ....................................................... 6

Table 4. Login roles ................................................................................................. 7

Figures

Figure 1. Fresh installation ......................................................................................... 8

Figure 2. Dell OpenManage Install Available options dialog box. ............................................ 9

Figure 3. Dell OpenManage Essentials prerequisites. ......................................................... 10

Figure 4. Setup type ................................................................................................ 12

Figure 5. Port settings ............................................................................................. 12

Figure 6. Database server window from the InstallShield Wizard .......................................... 13

Figure 7. Browsing a remote database. ......................................................................... 14

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Figure 8. Upgrade workflow. ...................................................................................... 16

Figure 9. Ready to Install the Program screen. ................................................................ 17

Figure 10. Custom settings (only displayed during the upgrade process). .................................. 18

Figure 11. Uninstalling OpenManage Essentials ................................................................. 18

Figure 12. Program maintenance. ................................................................................. 19

Installing Dell OpenManage Essentials

Minimum recommended hardware

Large deployments

Medium deployments

Small deployments

Number of devices

Up to 2000

Up to 500

Up to 100

Type of system

Physical machines / virtual Machines

RAM

8 GB

6 GB

4 GB

Processors

8 cores total

4 cores total

2 cores total

Database

SQL standard

SQL Express

Database location

Remote

Local

Hard drive

10 GB

6 GB

Executive summary

This document describes the Dell OpenManage Essentials (OME) installation prerequisites, installation flow and steps, and information you can make use of during the OME installation or upgrade from previous versions.

This document includes the following information:

 Minimum hardware and software requirements  Single-click prerequisites installation  Remote database installation  Program maintenance

What is OpenManage Essentials?

Dell OpenManage Essentials is a lightweight, Web-based, one-to many systems management solution that provides a comprehensive view of Dell systems, devices, and components in an enterprise network. To know more refer: www.delltechcenter.com/ome

Minimum installation requirements

Installing OpenManage Essentials requires the minimum software, network, and system requirements detailed in the tables below. You must have system administrator privileges to perform the installation.

Minimum recommended hardware Table 1.

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Particulars

Minimum requirements

Operating systems Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition (x86 and x64) Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (x86 and x64) Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition

Network

100 Mbps or higher

Web browser

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 Mozilla Firefox 11 and 12

Database

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 and above

User interface

Microsoft Silverlight version 5.0

Microsoft .NET Framework

4.0 Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime

Runtime 2008 - v9.0.30729.17

Use cases

Minimum login roles for SQL Server

Fresh OME installation: select the Typical installation option.

sysadmin access on the installed

instance

Fresh OME installation: select the Custom installation option. An empty OpenManage Essentials database is already present (locally or remotely) on the mentioned database server.

db_owner access on the OpenManage Essentials database.

Fresh OME installation: select the Custom installation option, and no OME database found.

dbcreator access on the server.

Upgrading OME from v1.0.1 to v1.1 and an OpenManage Essentials database is present (locally or remotely).

db_owner access on the OpenManage Essentials database.

Upgrading from IT Assistant 8.x to OpenManage Essentials.

sysAdmin access on the IT Assistant database and dbcreator access on the server.

Minimum software and network requirements Table 2.

Minimum login roles for Microsoft SQL Server Table 3.

Note: If you select the Custom install option and do not enter any credentials (irrespective if the Windows or SQL Authentication methods selected), then the installation is considered as a Typical installation and sysadmin rights will be checked for the mentioned database server and database instance.

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