Systems Management Tools And Documentation Version 8.
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Contents 1 About....................................................................................................................... 4 Systems Management Software DVDs................................................................................................. 4 Managed system and management station......................................................................................... 4 Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD...................................................................
About 1 The Systems Management Tools and Documentation Installation Guide provides an overview of the management station software and installation instructions for the same. For information on installing Server Administrator, see the Server Administrator Installation Guide on the Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD.
Managed system software The following applications comprise the managed system software: • Server Administrator Server Administrator provides comprehensive one-to-one in-band server managements solutions to manage a server locally and remotely using a web browser-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) and Command Line Interface (CLI). Server Administrator installs server-specific Remote Access Card (RAC) and network interface management components.
For information on installing RAC on the managed system, see the Server Administrator Installation Guide. For information on installing on the management station, see Installing Management Station Software on Windows. For more information on RAC, see the Remote Access Controller User's Guide. NOTE: Both 32–bit and 64–bit installers are available. When you install RAC Tools from autorun, RAC Tools launches the installer corresponding to the operating system architecture.
The iDRAC Service Module also complements the iDRAC interfaces such as the GUI, RACADM CLI, and WSMAN with additional monitoring features. For more information, see iDRAC Service Module Installation Guide available at dell.com/support/home. • Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) The Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit (DTK) includes a set of utilities, sample scripts, and sample configuration files that you can use to deploy and configure the Dell systems.
Installing management station software on Microsoft Windows 2 1. Log on with administrator privileges to the system on which you want to install the management station applications. 2. Insert the Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD into the DVD drive or download the web installer. NOTE: You can download the web installer from dell.com/support/home. 3. Run autorun.exe.
To install BMU, launch the MSI file using the command: msiexec /i BMC.msi NOTE: Only 32–bit installer is available. NOTE: The BMC.msi file is located at SYSMGMT\ManagementStation\windows\BMC on the Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD. To install Active Directory Snap-In, launch the MSI file using the command: • For 32–bit: msiexec /i ADSnapIn.msi • For 64–bit: msiexec /i ADSnapIn_x64.msi NOTE: On the Systems Management Tools and Documentation DVD: • The ADSnapIn.
Management Station Software Architecture Command msiexec /x {08FC9B9D-AD84-4431-B2BEF153F5F7E1CF} Active Directory Snap-In 64–bit Not applicable 32–bit msiexec /x ADSnapIn.msi (or) msiexec /x {631E1D0C-2D62-4EB1-915ECA41A9F0F47B} 64–bit msiexec /x ADSnapIn_x64.
3 Installing management station software on supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and VMware ESX/ESXi Server Only RAC tools and BMU are supported on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, and VMware ESX/ESXi Server operating systems. On systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system, DVDs are auto-mounted with the noexec mount option. This option does not allow you to run any executable from the DVD.
