Dell EMC Systems Management Tools And Documentation Installation Guide Version 9.5 September 2020 Rev.
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Contents Chapter 1: About........................................................................................................................... 4 Managed system and management station...................................................................................................................4 Systems Management Tools and Documentation software......................................................................................4 Active Directory Snap-In............................................
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 Dell EMC Server Administrator Installation Guide in the Dell EMC Systems Management Tools and Documentation software.
Managed system software The following applications include the managed system software: ● Server Administrator Server Administrator provides comprehensive one-to-one in-band server managements solutions. You can manage a server locally and remotely using a web browser-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) and Command Line Interface (CLI). 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.
IPMI management of a local system interface requires a compatible IPMI kernel driver to be installed and configured. On Linux, the driver is called Open IPMI and it is included in standard distributions. On Solaris, the driver is called BMC and is included in Solaris 10. On Windows, it communicates through WMI driver. Management of a remote station requires the IPMI-over-LAN interface to be enabled and configured.
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. Mount the Systems Management Tools and Documentation software onto the DVD drive or download the web installer. NOTE: You can download the web installer from www.dell.com/Support/Home. 3. Run autorun.exe.
To install the localized version of the management station software, at the command prompt type the following: msiexec / I .msi TRANSFORMS= .mst NOTE: Replace .mst with the appropriate language file: ● 1031.mst (German) ● 1034.mst (Spanish) ● 1036.mst (French) ● 1041.mst (Japanese) ● 2052.
3 Installing management station software on supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Only iDRAC tools are supported on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating systems. On systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system, DVDs are automounted with the -noexec mount option. You cannot run any executable program from the DVD. Mount the DVD-ROM manually and then run the executable programs.
