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........................................................................................................................
1 About 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.
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. NOTE: When you perform a fresh installation on a system running a 64-bit operating system, a 64-bit version of the Server Administrator is used for the installation.
– Operating system and hypervisor deployments – Hardware updates – Hardware diagnostics – Easy maintenance of PowerEdge servers The Lifecycle Controller is embedded on all Dell’s 11th generation and later PowerEdge servers. No tools or downloads are required to use the capabilities of Lifecycle Controller. For more information, see the following documents available at dell.
2 Installing management station software on Microsoft Windows 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.
• 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.msi file is located at SYSMGMT\ManagementStation\windows\ADSnapIn • The ADSnapIn_x64.msi file is located at SYSMGMT\ManagementStation\windows\ADSnapInx64 To install the localized version of the management station software, at the command prompt type the following: msiexec / I .msi TRANSFORMS= .
Management Station Software Architecture Command 64–bit msiexec /x SysMgmt_.
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.
